AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19571, 18 August 1933, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS

“THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY." AT THE REGENT. , One of the most interesting and thrilling mystery films to be screened at the Regent Theatre for some time is “The Crime of the Century,” which will be finally presented to-night. The story centres around a prominent physician, Dr, Emil Brandt, who walks into a police station in a state of agitation and pleads with the officers to lock him up so that he may not carry through his plans for a perfect murder which he has evolved and expects to commit that night. The officers accompany him to his home, confident that nothing unusual will occur. It does, however, and in a startling and thrilling manner. Always hovering about, however, is a bright young newspaper reporter, who eventually straightens out the tangle, as well as adding a few bright spots to the doings. “ When London Sleeps.” “When London Sleeps,” which opens at the Regent to-morrow, is said to be one of the most vividly entertaining picture plays of recent months. The English beauty, Diana Beaumont, is the heroine and with Rene Ray supplies the feminine charm, while Harold French is the dashing hero and that great character-comedian, Ben Field, looks after the humour of the piece. There is a sensational fire scene which is described as being realistic in the extreme and the escape of the circus girls over the telegraph wires is another thrilling episode. “GRAND HOTEL.” FINAL SCREENINGS TO-DAY. “Grand Hotel” was enjoyed by another large house at the Majestic Theatre last night. It will have its final screening to-night. Produced on a scale that eclipses all other screen productions the talkie version of Vicki Baum’s great novel marks a new milestone in artistic screen achievement. Of paramount Interest to the picturegoing public is the tremendous cast. Think of Greta Garbo. John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt and a host of other wellknown players in a single cast! “Grand Hotel” is truly an epic of screen production. “Forty-Second Street.” It is so long since the early cycle of talkies about back-stage life that it is refreshing to hear of such a film as “Forty-Second Street,” which will begin at the Majestic on Saturday. In every way it is a great show, staged with a lavishness that eclipses even the big musical films of a year or so ago, acted by a cast that contains no weak links, brightened by severalmelodious numbers and with the true atmosphere of stage life convincingly and most interestingly depicted. The strong cast includes Ruby Keeler, Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels and George Brent