AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 September 1934, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT. “THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE.” “The Cat and the Fiddle,” with j Jeanette Macdonald and Ramon No- ■ varro in the leading roles, will conclude j its season at the Regent Theatre tonight. Reserves at Perry’s, ’phone 2496. • j “BERKELEY SQUARE.” J “Berkeley Square,” the Fox Film ’ presentation of the John L. Balder- J ston play, produced by Jesse L. Lasky, • conies to the Regent Theatre to-mor-row, when it will be shown at matinee : and evening performances. Leslie Howard and Heather Angel have the fea- ; tured roles in the picture. The cast is ; a notable one and includes Valerie Taylor, who plays the role she created in the stage production, Irene Brown, Beryl Mercer, Colin Keith-Johnston, Alan Mowbray, Juliette Compton, Betty Lawford, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Samuel Hinds, Olaf Ilytten and David Torrence. Frank Lloyd directed from the screen adaptation of Sonya Levien and Mr Baldcrston. “Berkeley Square,” which played twice in London and for eight months on Broadway as a play, is unusual in theme. The story concerns itself with a man of the present who believes the past still exists. His desire to take himself back 150 years becomes so great that he forgets the present and finds himself living in the eighteenth century. As a man of the present living in the past, Leslie Howard finds he has many difficult problems to solve, the most important of which is his love for Heather Angel. The mutual attraction of these two people, each from a different era, gives “Berkeley Square” an unusual touch. Leslie Howard, who has a difficult role to portray, is said to give an inspired performance that outdoes any of his former roles. Heather Angel, who is seen opposite Howard, plays her most important role to date. Reserves at Perry’s, ’phone 2496. COSY THEATRE. ‘ ‘ SOCIAL' REGISTER. ’ ’ Starring Colleen Moore, “Social Register” will be screened finally to-night at the Cosy Theatre. Reserves at Perry’s, ’phone 2496. I “MANHATTAN MELODRAMA.” | Described as a story which holds interest from its opening reel to itssmashing climax, combined with the portrayal of such stellax- screen pci- | sonalities as Clark Gable, William Powell and Myrna Loy, under the direction of W. S. Van Dyke, who filmed “Eskimo” and “Every Woman’s Man,” “Manhattan Melodrama,” which will be shown at the Cosy Theatre to-morrow night, is said to be one of the most forceful and entertain- ! ing photoplays of the season. The plot has for its background action-filled night, life, and for its characters a gambler, a district attorney, and the woman whom both love. The narrative unfolds the life of the two men from | the time wjhcn, as boys, they are rescu- | ed from a steamer disaster to the period | when, as adults, they find themselves | on opposite sides of the law. A panoi ramie glimpse of New York’s hectic | history is viewed in dramatic flashes of I the new film, which re-enacts the sinkI ing of the General Slocum in 1904, the I notorious Harry Tliaw-Stanford White I murder in 1906, and the spectacular I Dempsey-Firpo prize fight in 1923. The i scenes of present-day happenings prove I to be equally thrilling. Reserves at \ Perry’s, ’phone 2496.