AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 April 1935, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT.

"LILY OF HILL ARNE Y.”

‘ ‘ Lily of Killarney ’ ’ -will conclude its season at the Regent Theatre tonight. Reserves at Pcrrv’s, ’phone 2496.

‘‘BLOSSOM TIME.” "Blossom Time,” British International Pictures ’ lavish musical romance of Franz Schubert, starring Richard Tauber, comes to the Regent Theatre to-morrow. It is said that no greater masterpiece of screen artistry . has ever been produced. No more beautiful, more human story has ever gripped the imagination than this story of Schuberts’ love—and renunciation of his beloved Vicki. She inspired the most beautiful music the centuries have recorded—and sutely there has never been anything so pathetically lovely as the spectacle of Schubert, lifting up his magnificent voice to tell of his love to the glorious strains of "Thine Is My Heart.” Yet she was not for him. Heartbroken, yet the girl’s happiness was "all that mattered” to Schubert, and helped forward her romance to fruition —and in the brilliant finale —’midst the peaceful, magnificent settings of the vast Cathedral —at the wedding of Vicki and Rudi, the man of her choice—the great composer pours forth his tormented soul to the glorious strains of "Love Lost Forever More.” Richard Tauber, pre-eminent among present-day singers, "lives” the •role of Franz Schubert, and apart from the fact that his resemblance to the great composer is remarkable, he invests the character with a heart-warm-ing sympathy that cannot fail to capture the audience, and his singing is magnificent—a revelation to even his most ardent admirers. Paul Stein, the director, has welded all the elements of the production, the charming story, the lovely settings, the splendid cast and the marvellous singing—into thesmoothest and most exquisite talking picture it is possible to imagine. Further enhancing the delights of "Blossom Time” is the fact that every song, every spoken word, is in English. Reserves at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.

. COSY THEATRE. “WAGON WHEELS. ’’ An epic story of adventure in the conquest of the American West is unfolded in Paramount’s “Wagon Wheels, ” showing at the Cosy Theatre this evening. The film is adapted from Zane Grey’s “Fighting Caravans.” It shows in a thrilling, dramatic style how venturesome pioneers overcame the handicaps imposed by Nature, conquered the Indians who blocked their path, and in their human fashion even found time to indulge in romance. The picture features Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Monte Blue and Raymond Hatton. Miss Patrick has the part of a young widow, fleeing with her little boy from her husband’s parents. Before half the journey is accomplished the pioneers lose many of their number to the Indians, who are being secretly stirred up by a renegade half-breed travelling with the wagon caravan. As they descend the Western slope of the Rockies, and seem within striking distance of the promised land, the Indians, with the renegade leading them, strike in what seems to be a crushing onslaught. The hard-pressed pioneers are about to give up their fight, when Scott, by a clever ruse, turns the tide of battle and the Indians flee, leaving the pioneers to pursue their peaceful way. Needless to say, he wins the young widow’s love, and her little son is promised a new father. Seats may be reserved at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.