AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 May 1936, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

BTATE THEATRE. “DANGEROUS WATERS.” All the wild excitement of a fire at sea forms the background of the early sequences of “Dangerous Waters,” to be screened at . the State Theatre this evening, with Jack Holt in the star role. Assured that there is no danger, passengers sit tensely in the ship’s lounge, trying to appear at ease. An influential shipper among the passengers demands of the captain that everybody be put into the small boats and headed for an island 20 miles away. The desperately ill commander dies shortly after he has given the order to launch the boats. The first officer, in the person of Holt, is now in command. He countermands the order, knowing that there is no safe landing on the island. A riot of passengers and crew follows, when Holt narrowly escapes death at the hands of an infuriated stoker from the engine room. Thus begins a screen story which is filled with tense, dramatic situations throughout its performance. Reserves at F. J. Adcock’s, ’phone 1275. “FOREIGN AFFAIRES.” “Foreign Affaires,” starring Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls and Robertson Hare, will be the attraction at the State Theatre on Saturday.

COSY THEATRE. DOUBLE STAR PROGRAMME. Two features are included in the programme to be presented at the Cosy to-night at 7.45. Nine European nations are represented in Paramount’s comedy dramatic romance, with music, “Ship Cafe,” featuring Carl Brisson and Arline Judge. “Ship Cafe” is an hilarious story depicting the career of a singing ship’s stoker who becomes a singing sensation and gigolo to a rich countess. An amusing series of events brings him to a realisation of his position, and he renounces his benefactor. Members of Admiral Byrd’s second Antarctic Expedition, which is brought to the screen by Paramount under the title of “At the Bottom of the World,” the second attraction, covered 12,000 miles by tractor, 6000 miles by dog team, and reached 16,000 feet by airplane, the record for Antarctic flying. “At the Bottom of the World” is a memorable account of the thrills, adventure and drama encountered by this fearless group in their daring trek to the ice-bound wastes of the South Pole. Reserves at W. G. Perry’s, ’phone 2496. THE REGENT. “THE CAMELS ARE COMING.”

Jack Hulbert is featured in “The Camels are Coming,” which will be shown at the Regent Theatre tonight at 8 o’clock. To put down dope smuggling and running in Egypt, Jack Campbell leads a squadron of fast aeroplanes. Quite early he discovers the sheik who leads the caravan of dope runners, but the Bedouin deceives Jack, who sends him away singing and with his blessing. Then Jack forces down a ’plane and accuses the airwoman—really a publicity agent for a brand of cigarettes—of smuggling. The girl escapes. Later he meets Nichr olas, posing as an archaeologist, but leader of the gang. Not suspecting the man, Jack actually returns to Cairo with a quantity of dope. Here he again meets Anita, and is so befooled that he. assists the publicity stunt. Then he realises that, he is being made a fool of, and, following the devices of. the sheik, who previously got the better of him, and joined by Anita,, who felt sorry for him, settled the gang after a terrific “fight” in a desert fort. Reserves at W. G. Perry’s, ’phone 2496.

LONG TACK SAM.

AT REGENT THEATRE,

Long Tack Sam and his vaudeville company will .give one. performance only at the Kegent Theatre on the evening of Friday,, 29th May. seum, London—and Astor. The manApart from the artistry of the production, the rapidity with which one act follows another has a general appeal, and all through the Chinese half of the’ programme that inimitable master of ceremonie,s Long Tack Sam, keeps up a running fire of witticisms which has the audience in a constant simmer of merriment. His assistants, meanwhile, are going through, their routine of hand-balancing, tumbling, plate spinning, horizontal bar work and balancing on bamboo poles, with Miss Nee Sa Long ‘playing her violin while going through a series of contortions. The first half of the programme is taken up by European vaudeville specialties. Personally selected by Long Tack Sam to support his Oriental troupe, they are headed by the Four La Salles, who, at the conclusion of their act, ‘‘loop the loop” on skates. They are from the La Scala Theatre, Berlin. They include Jandy, the French Musical Clown, who intersperses artistry with buffoonery; Mascotte and Maurice, delightful ballroom dancers from the Folios Bergere; Dora Lindsay, Scottish comedienne from the Alhambra, Glasgow; Paul and Leon, tap dancers that are different —they hail from the Colosseum, London —and Astor'? The management purposely refrain from commenting on this artist, as it would spoil the real surprise. Suffice to say, ‘‘What a voice and what a surprise!”