AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 6 November 1930, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

» COSY THEATRE. “CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD.” A new kind of sound and talking picture was reveal e’d when “Captain of the Guard,” Universal superproduction starring Laura La Plante and John Boles came to the Cosy Theatre yesterday and shows again to-night and to-morrow. The blending of music, drama and the spectacular in this epic of the French Revolution marks a new screen form unlike light opera, musical shows or any existing classification. 4 4 Captain of the Guard” is the first dramatic musical spectacle of the films. In the climax, great mobs of extras, numbering thousands, are photographed against the background of vivid drama, with their battles, the crackle of their muskets the booming of their cannon, an'd their mighty sweep to victory singing the great song which has just been born to them. Lavish sets were constructed upon which literally thousands of actors and actresses took part in the big battle scenes. Besides Miss La Plante and Boles, many screen celebrites are in the cast. Patrons are advised to book immediately at Vare’s or ring theatre after 6.30 p.m. COMING ON SATURDAY. 4 4 DYNAMITE.” Cecil B. De Mille’s first talking production, “Dynamite,” provides screen patrons with a production that described as one that should keep all of them talking for many weeks after seeing it. It eomes to the Cosy Theatre on Saturday for four nights, with a matinee on Saturday afternoon. Scintillating society panoramas are blended into an enthralling dramatic situation in which a coal miner and bis rival for the hand of a society girl face death together, a thousand feet below the earth. Lea’ding parts are taken by Conrad Nagel as a young society gadabout, Kay Johnson, brilliant stage star, as a girl of high social position, and Charles Bickford, another stage favourite, as Hagon Derk, the miner. The fine cast of the picture also includes Julia iFaye, who has been seen in many other De Mille photoplays, Robert Edeson, Scott Kolk, Leslie Fenton, and Joel McCrea. “Dynamite” is far more than a “type” picture. It belongs in no classification. It is the genius of De Mille at his best, aided by what is perhaps the m’ost original plot ever conceived for the screen. Box plans for stalls an’d dress circle open tomorrow morning at Vare’s. OPERA HOUSE. “IT’S A GREAT UFE.” 11 It’s a Great Life,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s latest all-talking picture coming to the Opera House for to-night and to-morrow night, stars the vivacious and incomparable Duncan Sisters, popular musical comedy favourites. It is filled with gaiety and sparkling with new songs, many of them original and sure to win popularity, gorgeous technicolour sequences and beautiful backgrounds and new dances. 4 4 It’s a Great Life’* opens with the Duncan 'Sisters employed as sales girls in a big department store. Lawrence Gray stages the store’s annual amateur show. The Duncan Sisters parody the lines of the sacred store song and then mimic the owners. All three are fired! Benny Riubin, the comic Jewish soldiers in Marianne,” and Jed Prouty, the stammering booking agent of 4 4 Broadway Melody” fame, once again contribute inimitably enjoyable performances in a big cast. There is a good programme of supporting featurettes. Patrons are advised to book immediately at Vare’s. COMING ON SATURDAY. “CRAZY THAT WAY.” The new Fox Movietone love comedy, 44 Crazy That Way,” which is the forthcoming feature at the Opera House on Saturday for three nights with a matinee on Saturday afternoon, is said to have become, under the able gufdance of Director Hamilton MacFa dden, an even more delightful piece smart tomfoolery than the original stage success from which it was adapted, Vincent Lawrence’s 44 In Love With Love.” A splendidly fehosen cast is headed by Joan Bennett, who achieved immediate fame as the feminine lead with George Arliss in “Disraeli.” Kenneth Mac Kenna, currently winning honours for his leading role in 41 Men Without Women”; Regis Toomey, Lumsden Hare and others. The story deals with the younger 4 4 400” and their peculiar ideas of courtship, love and marriage. Miss Bennett is the queen (bee of the social colony with admirers a-plenty, an'd how she cajoles, misleads and makes them misunderstand her forms the basic theme of a sparkling little comedy, finely enacted and superbly staged. Box plans open to-morrow at Vare’s.