AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20107, 14 May 1935, Page 14

AMUSEMENTS

“OUTCAST LADY” FINE STORY SCREENED Michael Arlen’s outstanding story, “The Green Hat,” which has been filmed under the title of “Outcast Lady,” starring Herbert Marshall and Constance Bennett, will be screended finally in Timaru at the Majestic today where it has created a very favourable impression on large audiences. “Behold My Wife.” A unique story, cleverly turned, excellently acted, beautifully staged—that is “Behold My Wife,” Sylvia Sidney’s new starring Paramount picture, which opens to-morrow at the Majestic. Miss Sidney, who has played a variety of nationalities in her screen career, is this time cast as an Indian maiden and she brings all the charm, all the petite wistfulness to the role that audiences have come to expect of her. She is more than capably supported by Gene Raymond who plays opposite her. The cast includes those two favourites, H. B. Warner and Larua Hope Crews, in addition to Juliette Compton, Monroe Owsley and Charlotte Granville, among others. “LEST WE FORGET” FINE BRITISH PICTURE Humour, pathos and variety are the features that go towards making “Lest We Forget,” now showing at the Regent, most acceptable entertainment. This British picture stars Stewart Rome, around whom a distinguished cast has been assembled. “The Human Side.” “The Human Side,” one of the greatest combinations of love, comedy and complications that has ever reached the screen, will open at the Regent to-morrow. The cast includes Adolphe Menjou in the fastest, funniest and most human role of his career; Doris Kenyon in the loveliest and most lovable part she has played; Betty Lawford, the “other woman” who could wreck any man’s life; Charlotte Henry, famed “Alice in Wonderland”; Reginald Owen and Joseph Cawthorn, two of the most delightful comedians on the screen; Dick Winslow as the boy who would reform his father; George Ernest and tiny Dickie Moore in the outstanding roles of their careers. It is a dramatically riotous story about a man whom all women loved and who insisted in being in love with his former wife in spite of what the others did for him—and to him.

PLEASANT POINT TALKIES “Lily of Killarney,” presented by British Dominions Films, Ltd., and enjoying the honour of being one of the two command performances before Their Majesties, will be screened at Pleasant Point to-night and at Geraldine to-morrow night. A musical and dramatic romance of the Emerald Isle, it introduces the following' delightful song melodies: “Killarney,” “Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms,” “Father O’Flynn,” “The Moon Hath Raised Her Lamp Above,” “Hunting Song,” “The Dear Little Shamrock, 7 ’ “My Little Sheep Dog and I,” “My Little Irish Gig,” “Ireland in Spring.” “ARMS AND THE MAN” REPEAT PERFORMANCE IN LITTLE PLAYHOUSE In the Little Playhouse on Thursday night, the Repertory Section of the South Canterbury Drama League will repeat the presentation of the comedy, “Arms and the Man,” which was well received when played before an appreciative audience in the Theatre Royal last week. On that occasion the presentation of the play showed that the preparation work had been well carried out, while the scenery and costumes, which were specially secured in Australia, were extremely effective. The work of Bernard Shaw, the comedy in itself is said to be the most effective attack on the idolisation of the modern military man ever penned. Popular prices are being charged, and the box plan is now open at Begg’s.