AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 March 1935, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

COSY THEATRE.

DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAMME,

A thoroughly modern and entertaining detective story “The Notorious Sophie Lang,” and a Western drama of the open spaces, “Texas Bad Man,” featuring Tom Mix, are bracketed as featured items in the new programme to be presented at the Cosy Theatre to-night. The story of “The Notorious Sophie Lang” opens with a diamond robbery in New York. Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagli, Leol Errol, Arthur Byron and Alison Skipwortli are in the featured roles. The exploits of the notorious Sophie intrigue Europe’s most notorious criminal, Paul Cavanagli, who intends to beat her at her own game. When Sophie learns of his plan, she sets out to get him, make him fall in love with her, and turn the tables on him. With Alison Skipworth as her foil she startles the entire world by her daring robberies, going her rival one better each time. Arthur Byron, a police inspector, sets his faithful assistant, Leon Errol, to trail the European crook, thinking he can land them both, but the manner in which the two crooks, now madly in love with each other, outwit the police and eventually escape on an ocean liner brings the film to an entertaining and unusual climax. Seats may be reserved at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.

THE REGENT.

“MORNING GLORY.”

Something new in romantic triangles is introduced in “Morning Glory,” an RKO-Radio picture, which comes to the Regent Theatre this evening. Douglas Fairbanks, Junior, and Adolphe Menjou appear as love rivals, with Katharine Hepburn, who will be remembered for her sterling performance in “Little Women,” as the girl. The unusual angle enters when Fairbanks and Menjou remain the closest of friends and business associates even after their love interests unwittingly cross. “Morning Glory” is an intensely human interest drama centring about a -girl's trials in winning recognition on the New York stage. That most interesting personality of the screen, Miss Hepburn, portrays the girl and meets witli experiences which are said to parallel in some respects those'she encountered in her own real life career. Fairbanks is. seen as a young playwright, and Menjou portrays a Broadway producer. Lowell Sherman directed, and others in the cast include Mary Duncan, Fredric Santley, C. Aubrey Smith, Richard Carle, Tyler Brooke and Don Alvarado. Seats may be reserved at Perry’s, ’phone 2496. “TEN MINUTE ALIBI.” The sensational success achieved in Wellington by “Ten Minute Alibi,” the thrilling stage triumph, to be staged by the J. C. Williamson, Ltd., now London Company, at the Regent Theatre on Thursday night next, is without a precedent in the history of dramatic productions, and during its long season there it attracted record audiences. On Friday evening the company will present the brilliantly clever London comedy success, “The Wind and the Rain,” which was written by the young New Zealand playwright, Dr. Merton Hodge, and which, is at present attracting record audiences throughout the Dominion. “Ten Minute Alibi” proved the best success known in London for close on twenty years, and its run of 12 months in Australia is an indication of its popularity in that country. The planning of the murder on which the play is based is said to be almost scientifically precise, its execution introduces certain unforeseen elements which intensify the dramatic value of the situations, and its consequences provide an admirable finish and crescendo of suspense, which is relieved only by the chiming of the fateful clock at the fall of the curtain. The cast, headed by the London actor, George Thirlwell, and with Jocelyn Howarth, already known to New Zealanders through her appearance in Australian films, as the girl, Betty Findon, is worthy of a notable play. Mr Arundel Nixon gives a fine performance in the unpleasant part of Sevilla, Mr Frank Bradley is credited with a delightful sketch of a Cockney detec-tive-inspector. Mr Tommy Jay appears as a young detective-sergeant who has had a much better education than his superior officer, and the scenes between these two are said to be gems of their kind. All the other parts are well taken, and the staging, dressing and lighting effects arc features of the production. The box plans for “Ten Minute Alibi” and. “The Wind and the Rain” will be opened at Perry’s on Tuesday morning next, at 9 o’clock. A queue will be formed from 8 a.m.