AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19933, 18 October 1934, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE “RETURN OF BULLDOG DRUMMOND” Captain Hugh Drummond. “Sapper’s" most popular character of fiction, fights his last round with his archenemy, Carl Petersen, in “The Return of Bulldog Drummond,” the British International Pictures’ production, which opened a season at the Majestic Theatre yesterday. It is good melodrama. Drummond still retains his remarkable facility in escaping from almost certain death, and Petersen, as suave and calculating as ever, continues his diabolical machinations with equal facility. The battle of wits between the pair is even more exciting on the screen than in the pages of the novel, and last night’s audience was breathless with suspense as the scales hung in the balance. “That’s A Good Girl” Jack Buchanan’s merriest of musical comedies, “That’s A Good Girl” is coming to the Majestic Theatre on Saturday. It is a picture which fully justifies the good reputation that preceded it. British and Dominion Studios have introduced elegant settings and the delightful scenery of the Riviera. There is also exceptionally good acting by a large cast. Jack Buchanan has never appeared to great advantage in singing, acting, and dancing, and he receives unusually strong support from Elsie Randolph, who presents the finest and drollest work of her screen career. REGENT THEATRE “LOOKING FOR TROUBLE” “Looking for Trouble,” the Twentieth Century film which heads the programme at the Regent, is a fast-moving comedy-drama in which most of the artifices of picture-construction are pressed into service. It has its moments of tense drama, its periods of gripping suspense and excitement, and, above all, it has its full measure of romance. Each aspect takes its proper place, and a generally well-balanced story is the result. Through it all there is a splendid note of comedy, and one appreciates it for this perhaps more than for any other virtue. The humour flows naturally through the principal channel of crisp repartee; the fact that the situations themselves rarely give rise to a laugh exacts an unusually heavy toll on the ability of the players. “Murder at the Vanities” There have been many musical and backstage pictures; and there have been equally as many films dealing with the diabolical designs of fiendish murderers; but Paramount brings to the screen the first picture combining the two. Earl Carroll’s “Murder at the Vanities,” coming to the Regent Theatre on Saturday, mixes music and mystery for the first time. With 11 of Earl Carroll’s beauties, Carl Brisson, noted Continental and English screen and stage star, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, and Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra, “Murder at the Vanities” tells of the premiere of a brand new musical show.