AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19915, 27 September 1934, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE “UNCERTAIN LADY” "Uncertain Lady,” which is being shown at the Regent, is attracting a fair amount of attention. This hilarious, smart and modern screen drama is one of the high lights of this season and has an excellent cast headed by Edward Everett Horton and Genevieve Tobin. Just imagine a wife giving up her husband to another woman on a business proposition—if the other woman will find her another husband equally as good! It sounds crazy, but that’s exactly what happens in "Uncertain Lady.” Horton and Miss Tobin are ideally paired in this intensely amusing story, while the supporting players include such favourites as Paul Cavanagh, George Meeker, Renee Gadd, Mary Nash, Dorothy Peterson, Arthur Hoyt, Herbert Corthell, Gay Seabrook and many others. Karl Freund, one of Hollywood’s ace directors, who made "The Mummy,” with Karloff, “Moonlight and Pretzels,” “Madame Spy,” and “Countess of Monte Cristo,” performed an admirable job on this picture. It is sparkling comedy of such quality that is seldom witnessed. The supporting pictures considerably enhance the entertainment value of the programme.

MAJESTIC THEATRE "ROMANTIC NEW ZEALAND” In dramatic fashion “Romantic New Zealand,” now being released for the first time in this country, and which commenced at the Majestic Theatre yesterday, unfolds the life story of “Aotearca,” "The Long White Cloud” of Polynesian navigators. The coming of the great Captain Cook in his historic ship the Endeavour is followed by many colourful phases of pioneer life, bushfelling, surveying, road-making in the back country, the hectic life of the early gold-diggers all come to life again on the silver screen, with sound, colour, and bright descriptive talk to give the absolute atmosphere of the period depicted. Stage by stage the picture leads one on through the country’s development to the New Zealand of to-day, with its progressive cities and busy ports. As a wonderful background, the majestic splendour of our scenery runs through the whole picture. Towering alpine peak and dazzling glacier, stupendous fiord walls and grim volcanic peaks form the setting for the human interest that makes the film a living story throughout. “Cat and the Fiddle.” Featuring the talented Ramon Novarro and the golden-voiced Jeanette MacDonald, “The Cat and the Fiddle” will begin at the Majestic on Saturday. This is a delightful love story treated in an unusual fashion. The coupling of two such popular stars as Ramon Novarro and Jeanette MacDonald in the leading roles was a stroke that went a long way to make the picture attractive, but the producers, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, were not content to rest there, going on to embellish the plot with lavish and brilliant settings.

"Seven ounces a week? Must cost you something to keep your pipe alight. What?” Thus the chairman at a meeting of creditors of a country storekeeper up north the other day. “I don’t drink, gamble, dance, or go to the pictures," pleaded debtor. “But seven ounces!” repeated the chairman. “Bit over the odds! Can’t be good for you, either. How long have you been smoking an ounce of tobacco a day?” "For about 20 years,” smilingly replied debtor. "Well,” admitted the chairman, “you don’t look much the worse for it, I must say. “What tobacco d’you smoke?” inquired another creditor curiously. “Toasted New Zealand, Cut Plug No, 10,” baid debtor. “Hardly any nicotine In it The toasting sees to that.” “Well,” said the chairman, abruptly, "this is beside the question. Let us get on.” And they got on. None of the five famous toasted brands: Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold are injurious. As debtor said, "the toasting sees to that.” And for quality "toasted” stands alone—unapproached and unapproachable