AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19953, 10 November 1934, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE “SCOTLAND YARD MYSTERY” The attraction at the Majestic Theatre to-day “The Scotland Yard Mystery,” is interesting, apart from entertainment, for two particular reasons. One is that the late Sir Gerald Uu Maurier, the famous British actor, takes the principal part; the other is that the production essays to shew the inner workings of Scotland Yard. It is an unusual story, with grim aspects which are softened by English humour. The story is cunningly conceived, and an extraordinary feature is that the audience is acquainted early in the picture with the identity of the murderer. It becomes a question of how quickly the Scotland Yard experts will trace the criminal, and what methods they will use. The murderer is a Dr Masters, played excellently by George Curzon, and he is a medical expert whose services are greatly used by the Scotland Yard authorities. ChiefInspector Stanton, played by Sir Gerald du Maurier, is occupied with the solution of a series of insurance frauds, mingled with wholesale murder. He gradually follows up several clues with success, and it is when he Is nearing a solution that his suspicions are first directed toward Masters. Thereafter the picture becomes a clash of wits between Stanton and Masters, and it is brought to a most unusual end. Grete Natzler, Belle Chrystall, Henry Victor and Frederick Paisley are other players taking prominent parts. The film by no means belongs to the usual run of murder mysteries, but It introduces a plenitude of action and strange sequences. REGENT THEATRE “SOUR GRAPES” The successful stage play “Sour Grapes," by Vincent Lawrence, under the film title of “Let’s Try Again,” will head the new programme at the Regent to-day. Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook, who take the principal roles, are making their third screen appearance together. They hr.ve been seen previously in “The Dover Road” and “Cavalcade,” in which their excellent performances gained them the Academy Award of 1933. In their latest picture their portrayals reveal real dramatic ability. The story is remarkably true to life and the sincere performances of the principal players make it outstanding. The chief figures in this drama are a doctor and his wife who have been married for ten years. Although they are not openly antagonistic to each other, they feel that they are losing the glamour of their earlier married days and both desire a change. In an effort to regain the romance of their youth, they decide to separate. At first they are both happy, but the novelty soon begins to pall and they find that the ties binding them are too strong to be summarily dissolved and the wounds that their truantry inflict on others are too severe. Almost against their will .they are drawn back together and find that love does not end with fading romance. There is a good cast supporting the two leading players, including Helen Vinson and Theodore Newton.

THEATRE ROYAL DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAMME An excellent double feature programme will be screened at the Theatre Royal to-day. “I’ll Tell the World” is a fast-moving and most fascinating comedy drama. A Universal picture, it stars Lee Tracy, making a “comeback" in motion pictures, and Gloria Stuart. The story has to do with the loves and adventures of the staff correspondents of world-wide newsgathering agencies as they race from continent to continent in reach of comedy, tragedy, thrills and triumphs, which they relay to the doorsteps of millions of homes each day. The second feature is an outstanding drama titled “The Rebel.” Those who see it will remark on the excellence of the photography, the unusual camera angles, the sheer beauty of the Tyrolean panorama rendered doubly exquisite by the camera’s magic. Great pains were taken by Paul Kohner associate producer for Universal, to secure the very best available talent in Europe to photograph the picture. Luis Trenker, who Is starred in “The Rebel,’ and who also is co-author and director of the production with Edwin H. Knopf, has Vilma Banky and Victor Varconl in the principal supporting roles. PLEASANT POINT TALKIES “The Mummy,” a thrilling and mysterious drama of Egypt, will be screened at Pleasant Point to-night, with Boris Karloff in the title role. There will also be variety supporting features.