ENTERTAINMENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 188, 11 August 1931, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS

lU—MAJESTIC THEATRE “THE PRODIGAL” I Lawrence Tibbctt will gaiu a good many more admirers us a result, of “The Prodigal,” his latest starring vehicle for Met ro-Goldwyn-Mayer, showing finally to-day and tonight at the Majestic Theatre. A story of the old South, the picture, teems with colourful incident, and there are a host of delightful interludes, not the least enjoyable of which is the great singer’s songs? Tibbett will be seen as a prodigal son who has been roaming the country with a band of tramps. He stops off at his home to see his mother and for the first time becomes acquainted with his brother’s wife, Antonia. Antonia is miserably j unhappy with her tyrannical husband j and is about to elope with a former ! lover. In his attempts to preserve the •. family integrity. Tibbett succumbs to j the charms of the bewitching Antonia i and finds himself in a compromising I position. “Sit Tight” To-morrow “Sit Tight” is the name of the new i Warner Brothers’ comedy, featuring ■ Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown, i but sitting is about the only thing these i two do not do throughout the picture, jin spite of this misnomer Miss Lightner land funny-faced Brown do the most strenuous work of their careers in this j harvest of guffaws, which opens at tini Majestic Theatre to-morrow. Winnie |is a “health” doctor and Brown is jJo-jo tho Tiger, her correspondencei school-graduate wrestler and assistant, j Between them, they lead the patients | a merry chase —and the audience, too. GRAND THEATRE j “DESERT VENGEANCE’’ j J Picturesque novelty in locale, com- I • bined with a story replete with human : interest, places “Desert Vengeance,” I | Columbia’s latest all-talking, starring j Buck Jones, in a class by itself as far • as Westerns arc concerned. Set i against the background of a California “ghost” mining town, the picture, j which is showing finally at the . Grand Theatre to-day and to-night, I presents a strong, logical and j convincing story, splendidly acted and I directed. Nor is there any lack of I thrills. One stirring situation follows i ; another with lightning-like rapidity, ' j culminating in a climax that is as j satisfying it is unexpected. The j action is concerned chiefly with the ' efforts of two rival gangs of desperadoes to gain supremacy in the district , surrounding a little town out. in the i Western Sierras. “The Virtuous Sin” To-morrow “The Virtuous Sin” comes to the Grand Theatre to-morrow. It features Walter Huston and Kayo Francis ami is a story that is outstanding for its drama and sustained interest. Those ; who see it will be entertained with i one of the best stories yet put on the I screen. W.E.A. i LECTURE ON U.S.A. TO-NIGHT The usual weekly meeting of the ■ W.E.A. -will bo held in the Technical j College Hall to-night at eight o’clock, I when Mr R. J. Jackson will deliver an : address on “How the United St ' 5 of I America is Governed—the Constitution i; a: I the Political Machine. ” Mr Jack- i | son has made a special study of this | 1 i subject and his lecture, as well as being r instructive, is exceedingly interesting. I ! In these davs. when systems of govern- I , 0 I

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