ENTERTAINMENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 180, 1 August 1931, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE. •DON’T BET ON WOMEN Patrons of the Majestic Thvatie are | in for a real treat this week, where the; Evx Movietone. ‘Don’t Bet on Women 1 opens its run to-day. This is the smart and sophisticated comedy oi love on a yacht and in a drawing-room, which has been winning the praise and p.aud its of critics ami audiences aiik*-.-wherever it has been shown. Edmund | Lowe enacts the leading male role, that • of the debonair inan-about-town. wh*»j thought that all women were bad, and | found himself in no end of trouble j when he attempted to prove it. Op- ! po&ite him plays lovely Jeanette Mac ; Donald as the* fascinating lady who cured him of betting on the fairer sex. The supporting cast is one of comedy j notables, including such eminent fav : vuntes as J. M. Kerrigan, Roland. Young, Una Merkel and Helene Millard.; William K. Howard, who directed Lowe: in the Eox Movietones, •* Scotland j Yard’ 7 and 4< Govd Intentions, ’’ direct ed this production from an original I story by the well known writer, William! Anthony McGuire. An exceptionally ( good supporting prvgamme includes! ••Honeymoon Zepp>-iin ’ comedy. ai Round the World ’travelogue ‘‘The Im-1 periay Citv,” two ir.foresting New.-; Keels, etc.* 1’1.: ~ a•_ f Emmets'.; DUCHESS THEATRE •CHARLEY < AUNT’’ “Charley’s Aunt,*’ the Columbia farce of Oxford University' life, produced by Christie, is to-day and tonight’s attraction at the Duchess Theatre. ft has been acclaimed by press and pub- j lit wherever it has played. The reason for the enthusiastic acceptance of this farce is that it is a long succession of laughs. The simple, hearty fun that follows on the wild students’ trick of turning a chum into an old lady so that their sweethearts should be encouraged to visit them under “protecGreat care was lavished in bringing this play by Brandon Thomas to the j screen. The role in itself was such a ’ riot that the most outstanding come- i dian on the screen to-day had to be chosen for its portrayal. It is none ■ other than Charlie Ruggles, w .o is in ; a class by himself so far as sophist i- . rated comic portrayals are concerned, j It is a difficult role, indeed, and re- ;> quired unusual ability. It is the first | time that a female impersonation was i tu be played on the talking screen. MONSTER EUCHRE PARTY. I The Cosmopolitan Ciub, with their usual generosity, are holding a monster euchre party next Wednesday evening. Good prizes will be given ami the proceeds will be handed over to the Schools’ Dental Clinic.

REGENT THEATRE •SCANDAL SHEET” ; In characterisation aki to his ••Wolf of Wall Street/’ George Bancroft fist-thumps and thunders his way l through the fast-action, dynamic drama t episodes of his newest picture. “Scanj dal Sheet/'* which is now showing at the Regent Theatre. In ‘‘The Wolf of /Wall Street,” the big bad bruiser of I I the talkie spaces was rendered disso- ! ! lute by a scheming wife and her ,! clandestine lover. Likewise in “ScanI lay Sheet ’ ’ Bancroft’s lovecastles are reduced to a heart-wrecked shambles. But there the analongy ends —for /•Scandal Sheet” is different from any > (other play Bancroft has ever dominated with his virile vigour. “Scandal Sheet” shows him as a ruthless managing editor of a tabloid newspaper, a , I killer of reputations, a slayer of ideals, ‘ia juggernaut who smothers all in his /path. in t name of the great god—- ' j News. His credo is “If it’s news it (gets printed, no matter \ horn jt ■hurts.” The owner of “he paper, ins I boss, is helpless before the power of 'J this man—for Bancroft, through his : steam-roller methods, has built up a *i tremendous circulation for the paper, “and circulation in newspaperdom, is ’commercial success. After a series of ' J events in which Bancroft stops at ?! nothing to get choice morsels of news before the public, he nt last becomes ; ensnared in a “yarn” of his <wn I making. Clive Brook, the leading ; banker of the town, plans to leave the city at a timo when the bank’s finlanees arc in a precarious situation. .Bancroft sees in this a “hot” story—- ‘ but what he doesn *t know is that I Brook is in love with his wife (Kay t'rancis) and that the two are plotting a secret flight from the city for the sake of their love. Photographers I whom Bancroft has sent to the Brook . home return with surprise snapshots of j Kay with her arm around Brook. When ! Bancroft sees the photos he is nstound- • «-d. But still it is news and he orders ‘the publication of the clopment story, i although it makes him the goat. Then |he dictates another “yarn” for the i late editions “Managing Editor >iays Wife’s Sweetie” —and turns in his resignation. Eor his ir petuous I' misdeed he is • 4 sent up for life,” and becomes the editor of the prison paper. I But ••ven in the gray, forbidding walls lof the jail he is the ruthless editor of ’old. “If it’s news it gets printed,” is I his jail-house slogan. In addition to Brook and Miss Francis the support {includes Gilbert Emery; Regis Toomey, iand Lucien Littlefield. GRAND THEATRE •-OUTSIDE THE LAW A business association that began a score of years ago was renewed recently when Owen Moore rejoined the forces of Carl Laemmle to p*ay the leading male role in “Outside the Law/’ the Universal all-talking production which is now playing at the Grand Theatre, presenting Alary No-

1 lan as star. For it was in 1910 that Moore, then a rising young stock actor, was placed under contract by Carl Laemmle for appearance in “Imp Films/’ one of the pioneer organisations of the motion picture industry. Born in County Meath, Ireland, Owen lived on the “ould sod” until ho was eleven years old, when he, together with his brothers Tom and Matt, accompanied his parents to the United States, settling in Toledo, Ohio. Even at that early date the Moore brothers had decided that they would eventually go on the stage, and during his attendance at school Owen constantly appeared in amateur theatricals. At the age of twenty he definitely cast his Jot with the theatre, and secured an engagement as juvenile in a Toledo stock company. Due to his natural talents and his winning personality, Moore’s success was instantaneous, and a brilliant career was launched. But the motion picture soon attracted his attention, and it was then that he became associated with Carl Laemmle. Previous to “Outside the Law,” sonic of Moore’s best pictures have been “The Blackbird.” “Monev Talks.” “The Red Mill” and “Tea for Three.”