AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 September 1934, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT.

“BERKELEY SQUARE.”

‘ ‘ Berkeley Square, ’ ’ the Fox Film presentation of the John L. Balderston play, produced by Jesse L. Lasky, comes to the Regent to-night. Leslie Howard and Heather Angel have the featured 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 Balderston. ‘'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. “MANHATTAN MELODRAMA.” Described as a story which holds, interest from its opening reel to its smashing climax, combined with the portrayal of such stellar screen personalities 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 shoAvn at the Cosy Theatre to-night, is said to be one of the most forceful and entertaining 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 when, as boys, they are rescued from a steamer disaster to the period when, as adults, they find themselves on opposite sides of the law. A panoramic glimpse of New York’s hectic history is viewed in dramatic flashes of the new film, which re-enacts the sinking of the General Slocum in 1904, the notorious Harry Thaw-Stanford White murder in 1906, and the spectacular Dempsev-Firpo prize fight in 1923. The scenes of present-day happenings prove to be equally thrilling. Reserves at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.