AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 October 1930, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

COSY THEATRE. “HAPPY DAYS.” . "What is described as the greatest aggregation of singing, dancing, comedy and dramatic stars of stage and screen ever assembled in one company may be seen and heard at the Cosy Theatre where the Fox Movietone production “Happy Days” commences a three-day season, twice daily, this afternoon. Only the marvel of the sound screen could allow a production of this magnitude for no amount of money paid or offered could result in gathering together, for a stage performance, this glittering galaxy, nor could any stage yet built produce the marvellous numbers seen and heard on the’screen here. There is a delightful romance running through the production, a boy and girl romance played by Marjorie White and Richard Keene. High spots of the entertainment are the tremendous minstrel first part with George MacFarlane and James J. Corbett alternating as interlocutors and with specialties by George Olsen and His Music; Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe, and a score of others with the screen populated by a marvellous singing chorus of more than 100 in black and white minstrel costumes with a truly gorgeous setting enhancing the ensemble. The second part is devoted to -some spectacular numbers staged by Earl Lindsay with the stage flooded with beautiful girls in bewilderingly beautiful costumes backing up. An early sequence, a combination replica-of the- Lambs and -the Friars in New York introduces in a novel way Will Rogers, George Jessel, Warner Baxter and two score other famous personalities -of stage and screen. Tho box plan, is at Vare’s.

OPERA HOUSE. “THEIR OWN DESIRE.” Once again Norma Shearer comes to the screen to charm, entertain and delight you with a splendiij dramatic performance in “Their Own Desire,” a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer all-talking picture based on the book of the same name. It is a poignant story of hearts adrift, the modern problem of marriage and divorce, the story of a selfsacrificing mother who sinks into mid-dle-age contentment and dowdiness after helping her husband achieve fame and success from dire poverty. He has forgotten all that she has done for him and falls easy prey to another woman of her own age but who has retained all her youthful good looks. “Their Own Desire” will be shown at the Opera House for the last time to-night together with an excellent supporting programme of sound featurettes. Patrons are advised to book immediately at Vare’s or ring Theatre after 7 p.m.

“THE 13th. CHAIK. ’’ Inner workings of the strangest police force in the world are shown in Tod Browning’s film production of “The 13th Chair,” produced as an alltalking picture at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, and showing to-morrow and Friday night only at the Opera House. The mechanics of the police force at Calcutta, an Indian force under English leadership, are strikingly shown, with tho work of Hindu detectives, who mingle with the natives or act as servants of the whites to solve mysteries, skillfully disclosed. 'Conrad Nagel and Leila Hyams have the leading roles in this gripping picture. Patrons are advised to book immediately at Yare’s.