AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 January 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT. “MY WIFE’S FAMILY.” The delightfully amusing comedy ‘*Mv Wife’s Family,” which has found high favour with bumper houses at the Regent Theatre since its season opened, is to be shown finally at matinee and evening performances today. Reserves at Cure’s, or ring Theatre ’phone 2303.

‘ ‘ ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ’ ’ An outstanding attraction comes to the Regent Theatre to-morrow in D. W. Griffith’s great pictorial drama “Abraham Lincoln.” The whole of the famous American statesman’s life is paraded on the screen and the picture includes notable sets on the grand scale battle and mob scenes. Lincoln s heroic figure is seen in all its multiplicity of strange moods. A aitei Huston, to whom the name part is allotted, makes Lincoln a human being who loves and reacts to disappointments as any other man might. Through his interpretation Lincoln becomes one of the best drawn character portraits shown on the screen. The cast, which number over one hundred principal speaking players, was chosen wisely. Una Merkel, a newcomer to the screen, plays the role of Ann Rutlege, Lincoln’s boyhood sweetheart. Her love scenes with Huston are remarkable for their quiet beauty. Kay Hammond plays the irascible Mary Todd Lincoln perfectly, since her voice and mannerisms are ideally suited to the nagging, caustic Mary Todd of history. lan Keith does splendidly as the sinister John Wilkes Booth, whose cruel shot ended Lincoln’s life. Others in brilliant portrayals are Jason Robards, as Herndon; Hobart Bosworth, as Robert E. Lee; Frank Campeau, as Sheridan, and Lucille La Verne, as the matron officiation at the birth of Lincoln. Seats may be reserved at Fare’s, or ring Theatre, ’phone 2303.

COSY THEATRE. “LONELY WIVES.” N “Lonely Wives,” a Bathe comedy based upon a play by Walter De Leon, heads the new programme to be screened at the Cosy Theatre this evening. The picture is presented by an impressive cast and is rated high as a laugh-provoker. Edward Everett Horton fills the principal role, Esther Ralston, blonde comedienne, appears as his wife, while Laura La Plante fills another featured role. Patsy Rutli Miller will be seen as Horton’s vivacious and clever secretary, while Maude Eburne, stage actress, has an hilarious role as the mother-in-law. Spencer Charters, who will be remembered for his work in “Whoopee,” has a strong role. Georgette Rhodes also is in the cast. The plot of the comedy develops a. series of hilarious complications. To fool his prying mother-in-law and incidentally enable him to keep an appointment with a charming young client seeking a divorce, a prominent attorney induces a vaudeville impersonator to take his place for one evening. Unfortunately that is the evening his wife selects to surprise him by an earlier return than was expected. Still more unfortunately, it develops that his young client is the wife of the vaudeville impersonator. The errant husband does not return until morning, and then he is closely trailed by the young client. From this point onwards, affairs take a good deal of straightening out. Seats may be reserved at Vare’s, ’phone 1333.