AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 April 1935, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

COSY THEATRE. "DAVID HARUM. ’’ “David Harum,” with Will Rogers in the title role, is to be shown finally at the Cosy Theatre to-night. Reserves at Perry’s, ’phone 2496. SATURDAY’S ATTRACTIONS. Items in a special matinee programme for children to be screened at the Cosy Theatre on Saturday afternoon include “The Fourth Horseman,’’ a Western drama featuring Tom Mix and chapter 14 of “The Red Rider.’’ The new programme to be screened in the evening is headed by “Belle of the Nineties,’’ with Mao West in the principal part. Against a background of the gay nineties, and with Roger Pryor, her leading man, as a two-fisted ring hero, John Mack Brown as a gallant lover, and John Miljan, the “tall and dark’’ trouble-maker, Miss West plays the part of a diamond-crusted charmer, who gives up her title of burlesque’ queen of St. Louis to become the. sweetheart of New Orleans. The plot, which includes a prize fight reminiscent of the former glory of the ring, a diamond theft, a murder and a fire, serves to bring Miss West through the whirlwind of action and love-making to the arms of her true love, Pryor. Furnishing a background of rhythms for Miss West’s songs are Duke Ellington and his orchestra. The picture is sumptuously a;id elaborately set in a careful reconstruction of the dazzling New Orleans of the latter part of the last century. The costumes are among the most beautiful ever seen on the screen. Seats may be reserved at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.

THE REGENT.

“THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE

STREET.”

“The Barretts of Wimpole Street,” which is to be shown again at the Re j gent Theatre to-night, and at matinee and evening performances on Saturday, has been hailed by Australian and New Zealand critics as a picture of great and outstanding merit. Norma Shearer has the leading role. ‘ 1 The Barretts of Wimpole Street” is described as a production brilliantly conceived, written, acted, directed and framed. Norma Shearer and Fredric March do more than present a tender, poetic love story; they actually bring the invalided Elizabeth Barrett and the ' poet Browning to life. And as the grim, uncompromising father, Charles Laughton gives _ a performance which compares well with his recent interpretation of Henry the Eighth. The supporting players arc equally inspired and equally well cast. No one ever danced the polka more gaily than does the Irish lass, Maureen O’Sullivan, nor looked more gallant than Ralph Forbes as Captain Cook; nor more sadly resigned than Katharine Alexander; nor flirted more expertly than Marion Clayton. Leo Carroll and Ferdinand Munier are excellent as Elizabeth’s doctors, while lan Wolfe and Vernon Downing are at home as Bevan and Oetavous —the parts they created on the stage. Seats may be reserved at Perry ’s, ’phone 2496.