AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20667, 4 March 1937, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE "ANTHONY ADVERSE” “Anthony Adverse” will concude its Timaru season at the Regent to-day. It is a mammoth production based on the popular novel by Hervey Allen. Fredric March has the stellar role, while others in the cast besides Miss Louise include Olivia de Havilland, Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains, Louis Hayward, Gale Sondergaard, Steffi Duna, Billy Mauch, Donald Woods and Henry O’Neill. The screen play is by Sheridan Gibney. Opera sequences were staged by Natale Carossio. Double Programme To-morrow “Yours for the Asking” and “The Arizona Raiders" will open at the Regent. Ida Lupino, becomes a lovely adventuress, who has adopted so many assumed names that she has trouble remembering them, In the Paramount comedy romance, “Yours for the Asking,” with George Raft and Dolores Costello Barrymore irt stellar roles. The picture revolves around the problems of a “tough guy” who sets up a gambling club in a mansion, seeking to pull the society trade. Miss Barrymore, a society girl, aids him in getting the place in operation and in giving it the proper “tone.” Three of Raft’s aides, James Gleason, Lynne Overman and Edgar Kennedy, worry about the newest idea of the boss; they fear that he is falling in love with Miss Barrymore. The Zane Grey novel, “Raiders of the Spanish Peaks," appears on the screen as Paramount’s adventure-filled, actionpacked picture in "The Arizona Raiders,” with Larry Crabbe and Marsha Hunt in leading roles. The story’s whirlwind developments are set in the old West, where cattle rustling was a real and ever-present problem, and include two thrilling stampedes, one of maddened cattle and the other of a herd of high-spirited horses.

STATE THEATRE ‘THE INTERRUPTED HONEYMOON” British Lion have turned out yet another uproariously funny comedy, “The Interrupted Honeymoon,’ which is showing at the State. Starring Claude Hulbert, one of Britain’s funniest farceurs, and supported by a brilliant list of featured players, including Francis L. Sullivan, Hugh Wakefield, Jane Carr, Glennis Lorimer, and Robb Wilton .this grand comedy tells the story of a honeymoon couple who go to Paris and find themselv i entangled in a boisterous mixup of mistaken identity. One of the resultant highlights of the fast-moving plot is the occasion when Claude Hulbert finds himself in mid-air with his arch-enemy, Francis L. Sullivan—and neither knows how to pilot an aeroplane! The director, Leslie Hiscott, has dexteriously managed to keep the laughs coming thick and fast, while the plot itself is as exciting as anyone could wish for. The story has been adapted by Michael Barringer from a Continental farce. Filmgoers will be unanimous about this—its laughter all the way! “Ramona” “Ramona,” a brilliant all technicolour production, will commence a season to-morrow.

MAJESTIC THEATRE “THE DEVIL DOLL" With Maureen O'Sullivan and Frank Lawton in the juvenile leads, MetroGold wyn-Mayer’s new mystery of the Paris Surete, “The Devil Doll,” is attracting attention at the Majestic. In the new picture, starring Lionel Barrymore, Lucy Beaumcr.t plays the mother, Miss O’Sullivan the daughter, and Lawton her lover. The picture thrilled a capacity audience last night. Collet, the villain, is plaj'ed by the usually comical Robert Greig. Grace Ford, dancing teacher from Tulsa, Oklahoma, discovered as a screen "bet,” plays the mysterious Laschna, who aids in the weird plot of a mad scientist, and Arthur Hohl, Henry Daniell, King Baggot and Fred Warren are others in the cast. The story, based on A. Merritt’s “Bum, Witch, Burn,” was scenarised by Richard Schayer and Garrett Fort, and dialogued by John Lee Mahin. It concerns a Devil's Island prisoner, wrongly accused, who escapes and returns to Paris armed with the wfeird secret of a mr I scientist, which he uses to revenge those who wronged him and clears his name, in a bizarre mystery plot.