EXCITING PICTURE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 27 November 1936, Page 10

EXCITING PICTURE

“THREE ON THE TRAIL” _• Once again the throes of Clercnce * ti E. Mulford’s “Bar 20" stories are I - brought to lhe screen in "Three on I 1 ! the Trail,” commencing next Wednes- I | day at the Regent Theatre, and featuring William Boyd as Hopalong i Cassidy and Jimmy Ellison as Johnnie . ■ Nelson. The acting by all is excel- ? | lent and the romantic interest is sup- ■ plied by the ranch schoolmistress, al s role enacted by Muriel Evans. The I ! main plot centres around a saloon I ■ I keeper, who with the assistance of a 1 crooked sheriff indulges in cattle ■’ rustling. How Hopalong Cassidy and I ■jJohnnie Nelson put an end to these j •j practices is well shown in an exciting! 1 I picture. I Bing Crosby. Paramount star, is '[building barns on his ranch Santa Fe ’ estate as the first step in the esfabI lishment of a thoroughbred breeding ‘ j farm. > • * * * ( Fiances Drake has 15 costumes designed for her use in Paramount's • j “Toll of the Road.” The film also has , a record for the number of different [exterior locations—with a total of 18. No girl in the company’s history, has, made the rapid strides within'a short lime, as Eleanore Whitney, [diminutive leading lady according to Paramount Studio executives. The Paramount Studios announce plans for the production of the famous "Beau Geste.” This time it is to be made in full natural colour. The casting has yet to be announced. Five separate “come-backs" in motion pictures have been made by Betty Compson, whose most recent role is that of an actress in “Hollywood Boulevard.” the screen play of I a crisis in lhe life of a film player. She entered the industry in 1915 as a i comedienne. * * * * “Everything is Rhythm.” “Everything is Rhythm,” lhe latest A.T.P. musical production, brings to the screen the romantic couple. Harry Roy 7 and his beautiful Princess Pearl of Sarawak, in a film based on their own Jove story and set to the | rhythm of Roy's popular dance band. | The film revolves around the personality of this popular music-maker, who. as a comedian, dancer, lover and singer, and in his capacity as leader of a famous'band, is a host in himself. “Everything is Rhythm” is a feast, of ■. music and romance with lively step f dances and catchy song hits, and also r includes a world tour. The attraction - will be released bv British Empire e Films. t • • ♦ « 1 All-in-one Theatre. r A Czech theatrical manager is now s in London with some brand-new ideas - for London’s entertainment. He is - Mr. Kurt Robitschek, and the place he 1 has chosen for trying out his ideas is i the Victoria Palace. Here he has int augurated an ‘'All-in-One Theatre,” in e which every type of entertainment ) will be given in succession twice ! i nightly by well-known artists. The - programme will not be confined to variety; short light comedies, and even acts from opera (opera comique, rather than Wagner, one supposes) I' Will succeed each other in kaleidoscopic fashion. Mr. Robitschek, who started life as a “confcrencier," as the master of ceremonies in a Contin- , ental music hall is known, was for 10 , years manager of the “Kabarel der . Komiker” in Berlin. Being forced to - leave by the present regime, he estab- ■ fished the “A.B.C. Theatre” in Paris, > and later took over lhe Parisian Al--5 hambra. He brings to London a rich : experience of the theatre, as well as - his mother of 78—his most severe critic. One of the features of his J management of the Victoria Palace ■ will be an exchange of artists between London and Paris.