AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE “BROADWAY THRU’ A KEYHOLE” With the dazzling splendour of Manhattan night club life as its background ‘‘Broadway Thru’ a Keyhole,” which is showing at the Majestic, provides something out of the ordinary in colourful entertainment. The film is the first to come from the studios of the new Twentieth Century Pictures recently formed by Josef Schenck and Darryl Zanuck. Zanuck, who produced “Gold Diggers of Broadway” and a series of George Arliss pictures, has assembled in this film an imposing array of American stage and radio talent new to the talking screen. The dialogue is terse and amusing, while the music is bright and tuneful and in parts even beautiful. Some of the elaborate effects are magnificent. Many beautiful dance ensembles, ballets and musical novelties are introduced. The story is a sensational one. Four of the latest song hits are introduced. Constance Cummings gives an outstanding performance in the leading role, and she is ably supported by Russ Columbo and Paul Kelly. REGENT THEATRE “I LIKE IT THAT WAY” All the ingredients which make musical comedy so popular. Action, dancing, singing, and a love story—are included in liberal measure in “I Like It That Way,” which is now at the Regent. It is a gay and carefree show. Gloria Stuart is the principal girl in the piece. She plays the part of chief singer at the Deauville Gambling Club, and though she puts the right amount of naughtiness into her work there, in reality she is old-fashioned to a degree —doesn’t like highballs, adores classical music, and generally has all the qualities that make a good wife. Roger Pryor, in the role of Jack Anderson, life insurance salesman, meets her and w t oos her, not knowing her means of livelihood. When he introduces her to his family, however, his sister Joan, who also works at the gambling club without her parents’ knowledge, denounces her. Brother Jack acts rather foolishly in playing the injured good man part, but though they part never to meet again the happy ending comes to pass. Gloria Stuart has two lively song hits, “I Like It That Way” and “Miss 1934,” and she puts them over vivaciously.