ENTERTAINMENTS

Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3342, 29 August 1931, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

AND MONDAY. "OUR BLUSHING BRIDES." An engrossing story, strikingly beautiful backgrounds and superb performances upon the part of Joan Crawford, Anita Page, Dorothy Sebastian, Robert Montgomery, Raymond Haekett, John Miljan and a large supporting cast contrive to make " Our Blushing Brides," which opens at the*Empire Theatre Saturday and Monday, effective entertainment from start to finish. The plot centres about three girls who work in the same department store and share rooms. They are fed up with the monotony of their lives, clock-punch-ing, delicatessen meals, made-over dresses, and all the other millstones of poverty and each awaits the opportunity to escape from a humdrum existence. Consequently when David Jardine (Raymond Hackett), son of the department-store owner, begs Connie (Anita Page) to let him establish her in a Park Avenue apartment with a promise of a future marriage as soon as he straightens things, out with his.family, she throws all' caution to the winds and accepts. Francine (Dorothy Sebastian) too thinks she has solved her problems when she marries Martin (John Miljan), a customer whose extravagant purchases indicate a bottomless walflet. When Tony Jardine (Robert jMontgomery), Dave's older brother, ivies to make,a play for Geraldine (Joan Crawford), the last of the trio, she sees through his intentions and spurns his offer. As events turned out, the level-headed Jerry was the only one who came out of the subsequent dramatic episodes without a scratch. Connie discovers that Dave is about to marry an heiress and attempts suicide and Prancine learns that she has married a thief. Geraldine and Tony are reunited in a surprise climaxl ,

TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. "RANGO." "Rango," the Paramount picture screening at the Empire Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, is without parallel. There has never been anything quite like it—either silent or talkie. It deals with the lives and habits of men and wild beasts in a part of the world—Sumatra, in the Dutch East Indies—that has never been featured before, so far as we know, in a film story. Here is no complex modern drama of the drawing room. It is modern, yes, but it js also Original. The events portrayed might have happened last year or they might have happened centuries ago; the theme of "Rango" is ageless, and therein lies the picture's greatness. There is comedy, pathos, tragedy, every ingredient of the truly successful picture—and all these qualities are set forth in such a manner as to reach the mind and heart of the young as well as the old. s'<Rango" is the name of a baby orang-outang—a lovable little two-year-old creature who lives in the dark and dangerous jungle with his father, Tua, a grizzled patriarch among the simian hordes. The highly absorbing and frequently jolly Hves of these anthropoid creatures is closely paralleled by the lives of Ali, a native Malayan tiger-hunter, and his son,(Binr There is an association of interests between them and against the common enemy, that .murderous killer, the tiger. One comes to have a warm spot in one's heart for " after watching his amusing doings, and as a consequence, one Reels' keenly the deep tragedy of the death of "Rango " in the final chapter of r the story. But the tiger "gets his" in one of the most thrillirig and ferocious combats these tired old eyes have ever witnessed. It serves the tiger right, one feels, when the water-buffalo gives him a fight to the death. Yes, indeed, "Rango" is a great picture!