£500,000 THEATRE PLANS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 144, 20 June 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

£500,000 THEATRE PLANS

SIR ALFRED BUTT’S PLANS. Sir Alfred Butt, who has severed his connection with Drury Lane Theatre, London, recently spoke of his future theatrical plans. Chief among these is the erection of a big new theatre in London, which will be used both for stage plays and talk ing films. This theatre will form part, of an ambitious development scheme on the part of a syndicate which has been planning the project, for some time. Sir Alfred was approached by this syndicate last summer. Hu said: “The theatre will cost about £.500,000. 1 shall not be financially concerned in the other branches of the syndicate’s plans. “The theatre, which will, 1. hope, be ready in May next year, and will hold 2,400 people, will be on a diagonal plan, with the stage at the side instead of in the centre. “The stage will be a revolving one, with revolving electric lifts beneath it —a novelty' for a theatre in this country. Plays and films will probably al . tern at** ’ ’

“Tons of Money” is a typical enter-< taiuiug British farce, with Ralph Lynn, ( Yvonne Arnaud, Mary Brough, and Rob- . ertson Hare as characters in this com-, * edy of many complications. Ralph < Lynn as the happy-go-lucky spendthrift, inventor, is required to die twice, and then disappear, and finally to come to life again. To watch Ralph Lynn and < Yvonne Arnaud, those inimitable art- 1 ists, plotting and planning the manner i in which it would bo best for him (Ralph Lynn) to die, is sheer joy, while : the style in which they weigh up the : various possibilities of shooting, drown- : ing, exploding, poisoning, and other < fatal methods, for his bogus death, is': Jiighly amusing and original. |<

(Haml. who made famous tho screen character of “Dr. Fu Manchu,” also appeared in “The Studio Murder Mystery,” “The Vagabond King” and “Thu Wheel of Chance.” Production has started in Hollywood on Paramount’s next juvenile picture, “Let’s Play King,” previously announced as “Queen of Hollywood.” It is an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’ Nobel prize novel, “Let’s Play King,” and is being directed by Norman Taurog, who recently finished the direction of “Skippy.” Kitzi Green, Jackie iSearl, Louise Fazenda and Juliette p’onipton head the