AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 November 1935, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

COSY THEATRE. ‘MURDER ON THE BLACKBOARD’ Hildegarde Withers and Police Inspector Oscar Piper return to the screen in “Murder on the Blackboard,” their latest adventure into crime detection, to be shown at the Cosy Theatre this evening. From, the pen of Stuart Palmer, “Murder on the Blackboard” takes place in a school where Hildegarde is employed. A beautiful music teacher is murdered, and Hildegarde discovers the body. She summons Piper, and,, together, they find clues as mysterious as the slayer. The finger of suspicion points to the school principal, the janitor, and the murdered girl’s roommate. Hildegarde chalienges death in her pursuit of the. murderer, but unravels the mystery m a series of thrilling events relieved by much comedy. An ideal east was selected for this RKO-Radio production to enact the various difficult supporting roles. Reserves at Perry’s, -phone 2496.

THE REGENT.

“DAVID COPPERFIELD.”

Romance, comedy and pathos are said to be blended deftly in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film version of the famous Dickens novel “David Copperfield,” which comes to the Regent Theatre to-night. No picture since the advent of sound has been more widely heralded than “David Copperfield. ’ ’ Directed by D. O. Selznick, it is said to have been reproduced with fidelity from Dickens’s best-beloved story. The picture was filmed both m England and in Hollywood. Sixty-five stars and featured players make up the “key” characters of the cast. W. O. Fields appears as the immortal Wilkins Micawber, Esq., the improvident but happy philosopher who is always expecting something to turn up.. Frank Lawton, who distinguished himself m “Cavalcade,” plays the adult David Copperfield, and the child role is played by one of the brilliant juvenile discoveries of recent years, a ten-year-old lad named Freddie Bartholomew. Lionel Barrymore, Madge Evans, Maureen O’Sullivan, Edna May Oliver, Lewis Stone, Frank Lawton, Freddie Bartholomew, Elizabeth Allen, Roland Young, Basil Rathbone, Elsa Lanches- . ter, Jean Cadell, Jessie Ralph, Lennox Pawle, Violet Kemble-Cooper, Una O’Connor, John Buckler, Hugh Williams, Ivan Simpson. Herbert; Mundin, Fav Chaldeeott, Marilyn Knowlden, Florin© McKinney, Harry Beresford, Mabel Colcord, and Hugh Walpole—these are among the distinguished players who were chosen to represent characters that are immortal figures of literature. Seats may be reserved at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.,

STATE THEATRE. ‘'THE FIRST WORLD WAR.” ‘‘The First World War” is to he shown again at the State Theatre at a matinee to-day and finally to-night. Reserves at F. J. Adcock’s, phone 1275. ‘ ‘ KENTUCKY KERNELS. ’ ’ A Southern feud is the basis for the hilarious situations in ‘‘Kentucky Kernels,” Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolnow hit coining to the State Theatre to-morrow, when it will bo shown nt matinee and evening performances. The inimitable comedians . portray down-on-their-luclc vaudeville magicians who pose as Southern gentlemen when their infant ward falls heir to a vast estate in Kentucky. The trio become involved in a family feud, and their efforts to extricate themselves form a rollicking romance, with gay melody, modern dancing by eye-filling beauties, and a friendly war between two clans with Colts and Remingtons. Mary Carlisle, beautiful blonde ingenue, plays the daughter of the hostile colonel, portrayed by Noah Beery. ‘‘Spanky” McFarland, of ‘‘Our Gang comedy fame,, is seen as the orphan. “Kentucky Kernels” introduces the catchy melody, “One Little Kiss. In the film, the ‘song is a musical background for dances by a chorus of gorgeous girls; and several members of the cast offer pleasing vocalisations. George Stevens- directed “Kentucky Kernels,” an RKO-Radio Picture. Harry Ruby and Bert Ivelmar wrote the story, screen-plav, music and lyrics. Scats may be reserved at F. J. Adcock’s, ’phone 1275.