AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19372, 22 December 1932, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE. “UNASHAMED.” Mystery and the modern age, an amazing dramatic twist wherein the heroine is faced with a choice between her own honour or the death of her brother, and a courtroom sequence that sets a new mark for dramatic suspense, figure in “Unashamed.” which is showing at the Majestic. The story deals with a millionaire’s daughter with too much freedom and an intense affection for her younger brother. She becomes infatuated with a fortune hunter. The brother shoots the lover and goes on trial. Then, in an amazing dramatic climax, the girl sacrifices her reputation—to save him from the executioner. Bayard Veiller, author of “Within the Law.” “The Trial of Mary Dugan." and other noted stage plays of the mystery type, wove many new and modem angles into a strange, gripping story, and Helen Twelvetrees. Robert Young. Lewis stone, Jean Hersholt, and others are in the cast. “Maid of lie Mountains.” Timaru is singularly fortunate in being privileged to witness the first screening in New Zealand of “The Maid of the Mountains,” the picturisation of the play which a few years ago took the Dominion by storm. The film, which features Nancy Brown, Harry Welchman, Albert Burdon and Betty Stockfeld, will commence at the Majestic on Saturday. At once a genuinely gorgeous and exquisitely funny production, this picture must be highly commended to all film-goers if only by r«ason of its musical background. Numbers, which all have come to know and love, are here introduced in such a way that none of the picture’s high spirited action is for a moment delayed, and are rendered to perfection by talented artists. The film is said to posse’s wonderful scenic splendour—many of the scenes were filmed in one of England’s most famed beauty spots, and altogether it is a super entertainment.

REGENT THEATRE. “MURDER ON THE SECOND FLOOR.” The new programme at the Regent to-night will be headed by "Murder on the Second Floor," featuring John Longden, Pat Paterson, Amy Veness, Ben Field, Sydney Fairbrother and many others. London's teeming multitude provide the background for this dramatic story. Joseph Reynolds, one of the lodgers at a boarding house, is

murdered. The police commence investigations which are greatly hampered by the absence of the maid, Lucy. This absence is explained when a cupboard is opened. Her lifeless form falls to the floor. The police arrive at a solution of the mystery which does not strike Hugh Bromilow, another of the boarders, as correct. With the aid of Sylvia Armitage, the daughter of the hou~e, he finally reaches the correct solution, and proves that Lucy committed suicide when she discovered that Reynolds had betrayed her. “Murder on the Second Floor” is familiar to the public as the play by Frank Vosper, which proved exceedingly popular in England. Mii:kcy Mouse Party. Children will be pleased to learn that a special Mickey Mou~e Christmas Party will be held at the Regent at 10.30 on Saturday morning. Every child attending the matinee will be pre-ented with a piece of Christmas pudding, which incidentally will include something which will prove welcome to those securing the lucky pieces of pudding. Arrangements have also been made by the management to entertain children from the orphanages and a number of others, who do not u ually enjoy the pleasure of attending the pictures, at a special matinee at the Majestic at 10.30 to-morrow morning.

THEATRE ROYAL. "MILLION DOLLAR LEGS.” In order to cater for the many visitors who will be in town on Christmas Eve, the management of the Theatre Royal have arranged to stage a matinee and evening performance on Saturday, the star attraction being “Million Dollar Legs.” It ri a Para-

mount farce, set against the background of the 1932 Olympic Games. Not even the various comedies in which the Four Marx Brothers have appeared reach so hich a pinnacle of sheer nonsensical buffoonery as does this picture, accordings to reports. Jack Oakie, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin and George Barbier are a few of the cast.