AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 February 1932, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

COSY THEATRE-.

“HOMICIDE SQUAD.”

Said to bo one of the very best of the underworld pictures is “Homicide Squad,” the Universal drama which is now screening at the Cosy. The story as told on the .screen is convincingly real, full of thrilling incidents, and enacted by a east which is exeep-, tional. Leo Carrillo, as Louie Grenado, leader of a gang of racketeers, is superb, A master of Italian dialect, his performance is easy and entirely natural, and he brings to his role a sinister menace that is at times overwhelming. Mary Brian, in the leading feminine role, is altogether charming, and Noah Beery contributes a particularly forceful characterisation of a police captain. “Homicide Squad” opens with the murder of the son of the police captain, and deals with the exciting incidents of the subsequent tracking down of the gangster killer. Seats may be reserved at Fare’s, ’phone 1333.

THE REGENT.

“BIG BUSINESS GIRL.”

"Big Business Girl,” a First National picture starring Loretta Young, heads the new programme now showing at the Regent Theatre. Miss Young plays the part of Mae, a co-ed, who is torn between love for Johnnie Saunders, leader of the college orchestra, and her ambition to succeed in business. The boy, unable to change her mind, goes abroad. Mac hastens to New York to look for work and after discouraging weeks, finds a job with Clayton, head of an advertising agency, whose interest in her is personal. Saunders returns unexpectedly, and though, the two have been clandestinely married, they quarrel and part. Many complications result —through the machinations of a catty patroness of Saunders—through a pert divorce co-respondent—through Clayton himself and others—and the result is as merry a inix-up as may bo imagined. "Big Business Girl” is ultra-modern and at the same time intensely human, with just the proper seasoning of humour. Loretta Young has never been quite so wistfully charming as in the role of Claire Mclntyre, who wins big business j success and finds it not so completely j satisfying as she had expected. Seats may be reserved at Yare’s, or ring Theatre, ’phone 2303.