AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20108, 15 May 1935, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

"PEHOLD MY WIFE" MAJESTIC’S ATTRACTIVE FEATURE Sylvia Sidney, who has essayed almost every possible type of film role in her career, appears on one she has never before attempted in her new starring Paramount film, “Behold My Wife,” which opens to-day at the Majestic. Miss S&lney is first Seen in the native New Mexico background of the Apache Indians, of which tribe she is a member. Here she meets Gene Raymond, pampered son of wealthy parents who fled from New York when his family halted his marriage to a girl he loved. Raymond, who is wounded in a fight with an Indian, is nursed back to health by Miss Sidney. Realising that she is in love with him, Raymond asks her to marry him and accompany him back to New York. He hopes, in this fashion,.to humiliate his family. His plans miscarry, however, when his family takes the Indian to their heart. In his disappointment, he betrays his real purpose to her and forces her to run away with another man who has fallen in love with her, Monroe Owsley. Raymond repents and follows the girl, knowing now that he really loves her. But in the intervening time. Owsley has been killed and Miss Sidney is being held for the murder. “Royal Cavalcade” In honour of the King’s jubilee celebrations, a picture of unique interest, “Royal Cavalcade,” will commence a season at the Majestic on Saturday. Written and produced specially for the occasion, the film has been described as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, yet made in England and has aroused wide interest throughout the Empire. Using the greatest cast of screen and stage celebrities ever gathered together in England, the picture traces in stirring cavalcade the main events of the present reign; the spectacular ceremony of the Coronation. Scott in the Antarctic, Sir Edward Grey’s speech in the House of Commons on the eve of the War, Marshall Foch at Versailles, the Victory ball and many others. There are stirring scenes of the changing of the guard and the massed choirs at Westminster and other features of life at the Empire’s centre*

“THE HUMAN SIDEOUTSTANDING CAST With a cast of unusual merit headed by Adolphe Menjou and Doris Kenyon and featuring Charlotte Henry, famed as “Alice in Wonderland,” and Betty Lawford, Hollywood’s most distinguished “other woman,” “The Human Side,” Universal’s comedy drama of American family life, will open at the Regent to-day. The picture is regarded as one of the most entertaining that has been presented in some time. “The Human Side” is the story of a theatrical producer, his temperamental star and his understanding former wife and four children. Some of the most riotous scenes pictured on the screen occur between Menjou and Miss Lawford because Menjou insists on being in love with his ex-wife. With this comedy triangle as a basis, Miss Kenyon is the focal point of another triangle in which Reginald Owen, delightful English comedian enacting the role of a wealthy though somewhat stupid figure, wants her to marry him. With the cast rushing from one rollicking situation to another, the audience laughter is subdued with frequent moments of tenderness and drama when the serious side of life impresses itself upon the irresponsible Menjou.