FOR SUBURBAN THEATRES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 12

FOR SUBURBAN THEATRES

DUCHESS AND GLOBE. The current attraction at the Globe Theatre, Gonville, is “The Sontimen tai Bloke,” the picturisation of that immortal epic by C. J. Dennis. Coming to the Globe Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week is a mystery drama, “Tho Frightened Lady,” in which comedy, mystery and tho element of suspense are all excellently treated. Gordon Harker as {Sergeant Totty, supplies tho comedy, while the mystery is as startling as it is sensational—as thrilling as it is gripping. It is Edgar Wallace at his eeriest “Viennese Nights,” to be screened at tho Globe on Friday and Saturday of next week, is a story of exquisite tenderness. The settings are gorgeous, being all in natural colours. March ing troops, gay ladies, street gamins, stout burghers, ample fraus, horses bearing ancient vehicles crowded with gay roysterers—all aro there with the glamour of old Vienna told so often in song and story.

Showing finally to-day and to-night at the Duchess Theatre, Aramoho, is “Arsene Lupin,” an absorbing mys-tery-drama with John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore in the featured roles.

“The Passionate Plumber.” with Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante and Polly Moran in tho stellar roles, will be screened at the Duchess on Wednesday and Thursday next. This Parisian bedroom farce concerns a bungling plumber who comes to a lady’s apartment to fix a leaky pipe, but remains to repair her broken heart. Comedy of a rare order is entailed in a unique contract made by the plumber and the lady of the house in which the former promises to protect her from the unwelcome advances of an impetuous lover and gets into all

sorts of mad scrapes in the process of doing so. One of the funniest talking pictures ever turned out of a British studio is “Mischief,” which is the attraction for next Friday and Saturday at the Duchess Theatre. When it is realised that such a mirth team as Ralph Lynn and Winifred Shot!er is supported by a galaxy of talent, it Is not to bo wondered at that spontaneous merriment marks every foot of 4 ‘ Mischief. ’ ’