AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 7 November 1930, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

COSY THEATRE. “CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD.” A new kind of sound and talking picture is revealed in “Captain of the Guard,” Universal superproduetion starring Laura. La Plante and John Boles which concludes tonight at the Cosy Theatre. The blending of music, drama and the spectacular in this epie of the French Revolution marks a new screen form unlike light opera, musical shows or any existing classification. “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, tho 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 iu 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 TO-MOBROW. “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 comes to the Cosy Thc'atre to-morrow for four nights, with a matinee to-morrow afternoon. Scintillating society panoramas are blended into au enthralling dramatic situation in which a coal miner and -his rival for the hand of a society girl face death together, a thousand feet below the earth. Leading 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 Faye, who has been seen in many other De Mille photoplays, Robert Edeaon, 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 most original plot ever conceived for the screen. Box plans for stalls and dress circle are now open at Vare’s. OPERA HOUSE. “IT’S A GREAT LIFE ’> “It’s a Groat Life,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s latest all-talking picture, which will be shown finally at the Opera House to-night, stars the vivacious and incomparable Dunean 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. “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 Rubin, the comic Jewish soldiers in “Marianne,” and Jed Prouty, the stammering booking agent of “Broadway Melody” fame, once again contribute inimitably enjoyable performances in a big east. There is a good 'programme of supporting featurettes. Patrons are advised to book immediately at Vare’s. COMING TO-MORROW. “CRAZY THAT WAY.” The new Fox Movietone love comedy, “Crazy That Way,” which opens at the 'Opera House tomorrow for three nights with a matinee to-morrow afternoon, is said to have become, under the able, guidance of Director Hamilton MacFadden, an even more delightful piece 'of smart tomfoolery than the original stage success from which it was adapted, Vincent Lawrence’s “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 “Men Without Women”; Regis Toomey, Lumsden Hare and others. The story deals with the younger “406” 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 are now open at Vare’s.