AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 28 January 1932, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

COSY THEATRE. “LONELY WIVES.” “Lonely Wives,” a Pathe comedy based upon a play by Walter De Leon, heads the new programme to be screened at tlie 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 tills another featured role. Patsy Ruth Miller will be seen as Horton's vivacious and clever secretary, while Maude Eburne, stage actress, lias an hilarious role as the mother-in-law. Sponcci Charters, who will bo 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 tho 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 be is closely trailed by the young client. From this point onwards, affairs take a good deal of straightening out. Seats may be reserved at Varc’s, ’phone 1333.

THE REGENT. > t ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ’ ’ An outstanding attraction is now showing at the Regent Theatre 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. Walter 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 liis interpretation Lincoln becomes one of tlie 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 Todcl 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 Bo bards, 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 Vare’s, or ring Theatre, ’phone 2303.