AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19511, 9 June 1933, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

LAST SCREENING OF “SALOMY JANE.” MAJESTIC’S ATTRACTION FOR TO-MORROW. “Salomy Jane” which has been followed by large audiences at the Majestic, will conclude its season here tonight. “Trouble in Paradise.” “Trouble in Paradise,” a scintillating comedy-romance, interspersed throughout with witty dialogue and highly amusing situations, is to be the feature at the Majestic on Saturday. The principal players are Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles and Edward Everett Horton. In “Trouble in Paradise,” Marshall is cast as a super-crook, whose activities are doubled after he enters into a professional and romantic union with Miss Hopkins, his feminine counterpart. But the attempt of the pair to swindle Miss Francis, a widow with a fortune as large as the war debt, leads to humorous complications when his interest in the prospective victim develops into something resembling love. “Trouble in Paradise” is said to be Ernst Lubitsch’s greatest success to date. He has handled it with an entirely new technique, said to mark another milestone in the development of motion pictures—the film is as new, as revolutionary in a film sense, as were the first sophisticated comedies that Lubitsch produced in the silent days. And like those earlier films, it, will probably stand as a model for other directors. Every performance in the picture is an individual masterpiece, but all are blended into a perfect whole by the hand of Lubitsch. The film was handled by Lubitsch with an entirely new technique, said to mark another milestone in the development of motion pictures. “ROCKABYE” AT REGENT. EDGAR WALLACE STORY FOR SATURDAY. “Rockabye,” with Constance Bennett, Paul Lukas and Joel McCrea, in the principal roles, is to have its final Timaru screening at the Regent tonight. “The Ringer.” Of the many mystery stories which have come to the stage and screen in recent years, few if any, have enjoyed quite the popularity of the late Edgar Wallace’s story “The Ringer,” the British talkie version of which is to commence at the Regent to-morrow. Though classed as a crime story it is poles apart from the kind of tale that floods in from overseas. There are none of the familiar desperadoes, no scenes of sheer brutality and, in fact, only one crime—and even that is done with the lights down. The story, indeed, derives its singular power from the atmosphere of tantalising mystery rather than from crime. Who is the man nicknamed the “Ringer” because of his skill in ringing the changes on his own appearance? When will he charge down on his unsuspecting victims and then vanish? Patric Curwen, re-enacts his original role and he is ably assisted by the London stage cast which includes such brilliant actors as John Longden, Gordon Harker, character comedian, Franklyn Dyall, Dorothy Bartlam and Carol Gooder. Of all the mystery stories which flowed from the pen of the late Edgar Wallace, none other has quite the intensity of interest or clever character drawing of “The Ringer.” From such material an excellent picture has been produced.

SPIVAKOVSKY-KURTZ CONCERT. RETURN OF FAMOUS TRIO. “Altogether beyond comparison with anything of the kind hitherto heard inthis country,” was the tribute of a leading Wellington Press critic to the playing of the Spivakovsky-Kurtz trio of instrumentalists, who are to give another concert here in the Theatre Royal on Monday next. When it is considered that these musicians had their earliest musical studies in common, it is not surprising that, coming together again in their early twenties to form the present trio, they should possess a unanimity of musical expression and temperament rarely to be found in combinations of this kind. They are really one instrument, and in ensemble playing their balance is so perfect that one ceases to be aware of the piano, violin and ’cello individually, and is content to listen to the trio as expressing through a single personality what they had come to understand of the ideas and intentions of the composer. An entirely new programme will be presented on Monday night, including the beautiful A minor Trio of Tschaikovsky, dedicated “to the memory of a great artist,” one of the most profoundly moving works in the whole range of music. Plans are now open at Begg’s