AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19835, 26 June 1934, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

PINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. “NIGHT PLIGHT” AT MAJESTIC. “Night Flight,” the thrilling aviation story, with a large cast headed by Robret Montgomery and Helen Hayes, will receive its final Timaru presentation at the Majestic to-night. “Six of a Kind.” “Six of a Kind,” the Paramount film comedy coming to-morrow to the Majestic, is the first picture in which the comedians, George Burns and Gracie Allen, have featured roles throughout the entire picture. It’s a six-cylinder comical affair with each member of the cast trying to outdo the other fellow for laughs. The picture abounds with uproarious hilarity from start to finish. The substance of the story is the trouble that comes to Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland, happily married for many years, when they start out on their second honeymoon with Burns and Miss Allen as paying guests on their motor trip. Innocently accused of a bank swindle, Ruggles is saved from disgrace by W. C. Fields, sheriff of a small Nevada mining town. Alison Skipworth, hotel owner, helps the sheriff run down the real culprit.

"CATHERINE THE GREAT.” BIG HOUSES AT THE REGENT. Large houses have enjoyed the very fine offering “Catherine the Great,” which has had a very successful run at the Regent, where it will be shown finally in Timaru to-night. “General John Regan.” “General John Regan,” the British screen version of the comedy by George A. Birmingham, which will be shown to-morrow, is a picture full of chuckles, with one or two more uproarious moments. In it Irish humour, with its happy knack of turning the laughter against the maker of the joke, is found at its best. What could be more Irish than a story which is all about something that never existed at all —or at least, never existed except in the fertile imagination of two men. The worthy general who gives the title to the film is this imagination something, the creation of a live-wire American who arrives one day at the sleepy village of Ballymoy and starts asking . questions about General John Regan, who, he says, is venerated the world over as the liberator of Bolivia, and who was born in that very village. His plan to hoax the credulous villagers is taken up With enthusiasm by Dr O'Grady (Henry Edwards), who feigns complete knowledge of the general and all his works, and announces that a statue to his memory is about to be erected in the village square. PLEASANT POINT TALKIES. A thrilling action drama of life in the West written by the popular author, Zane Grey, will be screened at Pleasant Point to-night. George O’Brien plays the leading role in “Life in the Raw,” and he is supported by a strong cast. Excellent variety supports will also be screened.