AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20668, 5 March 1937, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE AN AFRICAN STORY Devil and the Deep,” the Paramount production which is at present screening at the Majestic Theatre, has made a profound impression on the large audiences present. It has a fine range of stars including Charles Laughton, Gary Cooper, Tallulah Bankhead and Cary Grant. The picture is set in a port on the north coast of Africa. Miss Bankhead is cast as the wife of a submarine commander, who is insanely jealous of her. She meets Cooper and falls in love with him, to discover later that he is a new member of her husband’s crew. When the husband discovers the situation, he gets the two of them aboard his vessel, heads it for a freighter, and turns the controls over to Cooper just as it crashes. The sub sinks, and while it is lying crippled on the ocean floor the two men battle with their wits for the woman. The role of the husband Is played by Charles Laughton, who once more makes a splendid impression on his public. “Devil and the Deep” is supported by a fine programme, and shows again to-night. Plans are at Begg’s.

REGENT THEATRE DOUBLE PROGRAMME The new programme at the Regent to-day will feature "Yours for the Asking,” and “The Arizona Raiders.” New honours are won by both George Raft and Dolores Costello Barrymore, co-stars in the Paramount comedyromance, “Yours for the Asking.” Raft appears as a gambling house proprietor seeking to start the social climb; to exchange his “tough guy” mannerisms for the manners of the drawing room. It is a part suited perfectly to his tastes, and one similar to roles in which the steel-eyed star has won his greatest fame. Miss Barrymore is a society girl, daughter of a banker who has died and left his mansion groaning under the weight of mortgages. She leases the place to the gambler, then helps' him set up a swank gambling club in it. Gradually she realises that she is falling in love with Raft, but he remains blind to her feeling. “Arizona Raiders,” taken from the adventurefilled novel “Raiders of the Spanish Peaks,” presents Larry Crabbe and Marsha Hunt in leading roles, with a supporting cast including such excellent players as Grant Withers, Raymond Hatton, Jane Rhodes, and Johnny Downs. THEATRE ROYAL TWO ATTRACTIONS For the change of programme tonight at the Royal two new attractions will be shown. “Adventure in Man-

hattan,” Columbia’s tantalising tale of two lovers loose in mildly mad Manhattan, will remain the featured piece de resistance. The adventures alluded to in the title comprise many of the most hilarious sequences seen in recent pictures. They concern a crime novel author and a Broadway stage star who unwittingly involve each other in a series of daring robberies of valuable art treasures. McCrea and Arthur are seen in these respective roles with Reginald Owen, Herman Bing, and Robert Warwick. Ken Maynard, dare- | devil star and king of cowboys, is the I associate attraction in his latest I Columbia film, “Heir to Trouble.” This J new thriller relates the serio-comic | adventures of a young ranger who falls : heii- to a gold mine, a baby—and I trouble, trouble, trouble. Joan Perry, I Harry Woods and Fern Emmett have the leading featured roles. STATE THEATRE “RAMONA” The spectacular technicolour production “Ramona,” which heads the new programme at the State Theatre to- | day, is notable not only for the beauty of its scenic effects but also for the outstanding acting of the talented cost headed by Loretta Young, in the title role, and Don Ameche, as Alessandro. Miss Young gives one of her finest portrayals, and she plays the part with deep feeling and understanding. Her handling of the beautiful romantic theme with Ameche is deserving of the highest praise, and the film derives much of its success from the performances given by these two brilliant players.