ENTERTAINMENTS

Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3195, 25 June 1932, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE.

TO-NIGHT AND MONDAY,

" SHANGHAI EXPRESS."

Romance, intrigue, adventure, sorrow, and the breath of scandal are all linked up in the life of Shanghai Lily, a notorious but beautiful woman whose adventures while on a trip from Peking to Shanghai are graphically depicted in " Shanghai Express," Paramount's unusual production which has been specially booked for to-night and on Monday at the Regent Theatre. Shanghai Lily, a woman who is loved by many, but who gives her real love to one alone is,portrayed by that alluring actress, Marlene Dietrich who has never been seen to better advantage. Supporting the star is Clive Brook, who plays the role of a British army doctor, and lover of Shanghai Lily. He gives a sterling performance and adds greatly to the success of the 'film. The action takes place, for the main part, on the Pek-ing-Shanghai express on which the presence of Shanghai Lily causes a sensation, especially among the Europeans on board. Her association with xhe army doctor causes tongues to wag at top speed, and just as matters are reaching a climax the express is held up by revolutionary troops and the doctor is held' as hostage for a •Chinese spy. To save her lover, Lily -agrees to go away with the rebel lead-, •er. And then complications follow. For its showing in Te Awamutu the major film is accompanied by new and attractive short subjects

TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY

" THE BELOVED BACHELOR."

Paul Lukas, one of Paramount's most popular featured players, has portrayed many and various roles in his career as a talkie actor. He has been an acrobat, an aviator, a painter, a diplomat and a scultpor. He was an acrobat in "Buddy" Rogers' " Half Way to Heaven "; an aviator in "Young Eagles," also staring Rogers; a painter in " Women Love Once," with Eleanor Boardman; and a sculptor in his current picture " The Beloved Bachelor," in which he plays the title role. In Beloved Bachelor," which opens ajtwo-day engagement at the Regelit- Theatre commencing on Tuesday next, he is a man who is beloved of three women. The first is a French woman who has been model and inspiration dor his earlier works of art. The second is an actress who through a misunderstanding suspects him of having a dishonourable "past"—and the third is the , young daughter of the now deceased model. The play is a delightfully romantic one, with Lukas' characterisation bringing a romantic glamour to the side-bursting comedy bits provided by Charlie RUggles bringing n high levity in just the right spots.

EMPIRE THEATRE. TO-NIGHT AND ON MONDAY. "THE SQUAW MAN.",iWarneta Baxter leaped to talkie fame in "In Old Arizona." In Cecil B. De Mille's latest production, "The Squaw Man," he returns to the same country, and again succumbs to the lure of a primitive beauty, whom he loses in the end. But there is much, more incident), colour and drama in' "The Squaw Man" than there was in "In Old Arizona," and it will be surprising if the latest Baxter vehicle is not the more popular. "The Squaw Man" re-creates the famous red-blood-ed stage play of Edwin Milton Royle in talkie form, sweeping from aristocratic England to old Arizona, where the beautifully photographed out of doors forms an impressive background for unfolding the destiny of two women and one man, the ri-

' baldry of the "boys" on the ranch, and the drama of James "Wynnegate's v life. A magnificent English fox hunt accentuates these contrasts, the poignancy of which is very keen towards the endj: when Baxter's little boy is ■ torn, reluctantly, from his native ; mother." Eleanor Boardman, Lupe

■ ,Velez and Roland Young head an un- ■'■'• usually distinguished cast. Altogether "The Squaw Man" may be pronounced a splendid entertainment. It is a , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, and ;'swill open at the Empire Theatre this /^evening.

■■'#■•■ TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.

"THE UNHOLY GARDEN."

" 4. screen play should be an event iust'as'-much as a stage play," says Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer film producer Mr Goldwyn inagurates his ■/ control of United Artists producing activities with, his presentation of Ronald Colman ih '.?'The Unholy Garden '' due for screening at the Empire Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday. Too many films are made as grind pictures. People usel to come into ' the motion picture theatre for them at "any; time, to "rest, to get out of the ':-.': rain>'; because there wasn't a good radio programme, or for any of a V dozen reasons that had nothing to do " : •;with- inherent worth in pictures. It "was' a staple audience these drifters. the trouble.is .that they've disappeared. Shopping has hit piccVsual reduced in num- :--; hers to an almost negligible quantity, s■'■■'■ confines,his search for entertainment ",'' -to the neighbourhood houses. The • ? ffieat Broadway picture theatres like the Rivoli. the Roxy, or the Para- ■ mount attract this " event" audience. The majority; of their patrons plan attendance 'just as much as they look ' ' 'forward ift, going to the theatre. There is only" W-distinction that if. thfey go to see a stage hit, they pay a fabulous price for- ais],e seats jfront &' or accept thsisocial odium o| being a '.'. pikerr if' thes go to the Robcy, they , can Ke-ihtheS43rd row of ifthe; side /, and be, just as smart, as the people who, sit with their feet on "the bass Qium. It-is for these theatres and this audience that pictures must be --"made, Goldwvrj hblds. l v- •'. - '■ ~