PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 164, 16 July 1935, Page 12

PLAZA THEATRE

“MY HEART IS CALLING.” “Aly Hvart is Calling/’ showing finally to-day aud to night at the I’laza Theatre, is a triumph t’ur the youthful exuberance and mellow voice of Jan Kiepura. Alartne Eggert h, golueuhaired and infectiously gay, partners and supports the young singer whosv optimism is as unfailing as his ingenuity in obtaining audiences in unconventional places, liosee (Sonio Hale), bewilderingly overbearing as the ratner “doorstep hawker” kind of manager, pilots his South American. opera company into anything but tranquil waters when they embark on a liner bound for Monte 'Carlo, where M. Arvette Hugh Wakefield), director of opera, has promised them a contract. This is altogether a delightful presentation ox vivacity and charm, with a supporting programme which comjiletes an excel lent entertainment. “Life Begins at 40”

If you have been saving up laughs, prepare to shed them now, for Will Rogers’ latest comedy, “Life Begins at 40,” opening to-morrow at the PAaza Theatre, contains a bundle • o* hilarious situations that will act ns magnets to the laughter chained within us all. This breezy comedy, suggested by the Walter B. Pitkin book hit, is described as an hilarious fu n feast

lhal, works into a pandemonium mirth. The inimitable Will is cast as a country editor who proves that tire way to get a kick cur, of life is to piu a double .kick into it. I'rom other

cities reports tell of this picture delighting as the “clowning triumph” or Will Rogers’ screen career. Youth ana ago roar in unison with the miith-pio voking happening-. Rogers stampedes excitement, into his small town, tries his hand at match-making, leads a* army of veteran hill-billy Jbagcallcrs into battle lights a frolicsome duel using wisecracks for every pistol bullet of his adversary. Funny-bones are in peril, from all accounts. The comedy of “Life Begins at 4t)” is doubled with a tender romance. A» the editor, Rogers clears the reputation of a youth “railroaded'’ to pehitentiary, and so stirs up a hornet's nesv of hostility. One of the most 'thrilling and colourful pictures to reach a local screen in seasons, the associate feature on the Plaza’s big double-star programme for to-morrow is the new Fox Film production, “ Under Pressure,” which stars Edmund Lowe and Victory McLaglen, supported by a finely-balanced cast. This time the tough and trusty team cf Lowe and Victor McLaglen are “tunnel men”—leading a crew of husky workers through silt and bedrock many feet below the river. “Under Pressure” is a big and thoroughly human drama, with a love interest tnat is thrilling and comedy that is quickwitted and fast-moving.