THE THEATRE WEEK

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 20 (Supplement)

THE THEATRE WEEK

FILMS AT NEW PLYMOUTH. “The King of Paris,” for the New Plymouth Opera House on Wednesday, is a study of an egostical Parisian actormanager who loses his wife because he puts his art before her. He immediately becomes interested in a young Russian, and after making her a star, marries her, but''commits the same mistake a second time. Marie Glory, leading lady,' is a beautiful French actress, the original “Sunshine Susie.”

“A Girl of the Limberlost,” which will be shown bn Saturday at the New Plymouth Opera House, concerns a young girl’s struggle to educate herself in face of the unrelenting enmity of her mother, who blames her for her father’s death. The story of romance and pathos is based on Gene Stratton-Porter’s novel

The Regent Theatre, New Plymouth, has two pictures for Wednesday. “Home On The' Range” is the story of the deadly feud between a gang of crooks and two rancher-brothers. It features thrilling fights, a hair-raising escape from a forest fire and a magnificent horse-race. In “You Belong To Me,” a broken-down vaudeville comedian, without ambition (undergoes a regeneration to prevent the disillusionment of a young stage-child.

Two full-length films feature on the Regent Theatre programme for Saturday. “The Life of Jimmy Dolan” deals with a prizefighter who accidentally kills a man while drunk and is forced to abandon his profession in his efforts to evade capture by the law. In his frantic wanderings he enters a farming family and finds romance and unexpected ad-' venture. “Private Detective 62” deals with some spicy episodes in the uncovering of numerous love nests by a private detective agency which thrives on evidence it furnishes the divorce courts. It also is filled with fast action, excitement and murder. # * * # The heartbreak, the poignant drama, of “Jane Eyre,” the lonely girl who was soul-starved for lyunan love, and finally found happiness after a series of tragic events, will be brought to Everybody’s Theatre, New Plymouth, on Wednesday. #** ' • “Folies Bergere,” booked for Everybody’s Theatre, New Plymouth, on Saturday, incorporates with the singing of, five catchy songs the story of a baron who juggles with bank funds and flees the country, leaving his double, an actor, to substitute for him. Romantic complications follow. # * # . # Fay Wray, the. popular Hollywood actress, plays the leading part opposite Jack Hulbert in “Bulldog Jack,” a comedy-thriller for the State Theatre, New Plymouth, on Saturday. In this film Claude Hulbert appears with his brother for the first time