AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19628, 24 October 1933, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

"HELL BELOW’’ AT MAJESTIC. SPECIAL ATTRACTION FOR SHOW DAYS. The gripping drama "Hell Below, ’’ featuring Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Jimmy Durante and Walter r-uston, will be screened finally in Timaru at the Majestic to-night. “The Midshipmaid." The management has been fortunate in securing a special show attraction for to-morrow, Thursday and Friday. It is ’The Midshipmaid," one of the 1 ghtest and breeziest of nautical comedies. In its original form as a novel by lan Hay, it was widely read and very popular; but this popularity is said to pale into insignificance by comparison with the success the talking version by Gainsborough has achieved with the British public. Starring Jessie Matthews, last seen here in “There Goes the Bride," It presents * merry galaxy of comic happenings aboard a warship. At the midnight premiere of the picture at the Capitol Theatre, London, H.RH. the Prince of Wales attended and expressed his appreciation of the production. A popular section of the comedy is devoted to a particularly bright vaudeville entertainment presented by the best London talent in the guise of naval ratings aboard the ship. Jessie Matthews, and Claude Allister are in the cast. "IN A MONASTERY GARDEN.” SEASON TO CONCLUDE TO-NIGHT Many favourable comments have been heard in Timaru concerning "In a Monastery Garden,” a rare gem of entertainment which is to conclude its Timaru season at the Regent to-night. “A Farewell to Arms.” The story of "A Farewell to Arms ’ which is to open at the Regent tomorrow is based on Ernest Hemingway's very successful novel, and it runs the full range of human emotions. Its background is war. and the futility of war, and it analyses the reaction r.f the men and women to the sacrifice as the days and the weeks drip sparingly from the pendulum of time. Thj amours of an American serving with the Italian forces lead him finally to a nurse, and these two become the central figures, the subjects for the microscope of the analyst author and director. There is much pathos, not a little subtle humour, but at ail times a lifelike fidelity. It is a picture vividly drawn, and so candid that the label "for adult audiences only" is thoroughly Justified. Helen Hayes, a winsome, soulful nurse, fits well a difficult role, but no more so than Gary Cooper, the soldier, while Adolphe Menjou revels in the part of the surgeon. The settings are particularly well done.