FILM AND STAGE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 December 1932, Page 3

FILM AND STAGE

Jack Buchanan, the B.D.F. star, has gone to Non' York. 'He will appear in the new George Cershwin stage show “Twenty-one” in New York and while in America may appear in a Hollywood ifilm under the United Artists’ working agreement with British and Dominions. * * * * Fannie Hurst’s most- absorbing story comes to the screen to-morrow, when Universal’s picturisation of “Back Street” opens an engagement at the Regent Theatre, with Irene Dunne and John Boles in the leading roles. This powerful and fascinating lovedrama follows the romance of a girl and a man, held together by a sincere love. * * * ■* While night life in Paris is considered by many the gayest of the gay, it proved so dismal for Alexander Kirk-

land, who plays the featured role of the demented musician in “Almost Married,” the Fox spine-chilling drama-, which opens next Wednesday at the Cosy Theatre, that he entered a monastery. Finding himself broke in the French capital, lie teamed with a girl and gave an act in a small nightclub. * * * * A thrilling sea battle between a rum-running ship and a pirate vessel commanded by Chester Morris is one of tire! stirring episodes of Roland West’s latest drama, “Corsair,” which comes to the Regent Theatre next Wednesday. Adapted from the story by Walton Green, former secret servicehead of Prohibition Enforcement, it is the tale of an All-American football hero who sets out to beat Wall Street at the game of high finance.