AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 August 1936, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT. “I LIVE MY LIFE.” “I Live My Life,” featuring Joan Crawford, will be shown at the Regent Theatre to-night at 7.45. Reserves at W. G. Perry’s, ’phone 2496. “I MARRIED A DOCTOR.” A stirring drama of small town bigotry and intolerance, is depicted in Married a Doctor,’’ which will be shown at the Regent Theatre to-mor-fow at 2.15 and 7.45 p.m. The picture is based on a novel by Sinclair Lewis which caused a furore throughout the country by exposing the cruelties resultant from the attitude of selfrighteous small town people who judge others by their narrow standards. It is said to be filled with pathos and tragedy and dynamic scenes, enlivened by romance, sparkling dialogue and comedy. Pat O’Brien and Josephine Hutchinson have the romantic leads, lie being a country doctor who takes his city-bred bride to his small home town where' she immediately arouses, a jealous and bitter antagonism among the women because their husbands and sweethearts are attracted by her beauty and wit. Unwittingly she creates a scandal by taking under her patronage a country youth with artistic aspirations. Encouraging his ambitions, ■she does not realise that he lias become desperately infatuated with her, until he begs her to run away with him. The tongues of gossip, long wagging, click with venom when the youth, mad with disappointment, is killed in a wild automobile ride. Believing everyone in town to be petty, mean, intolerant and cruel, she flees from her home and husband, returning to the city. But in a surprising climax she and her husband are reunited. Reserves at W. G. Perry’s, ’phone 2496. STATE THEATRE. “JACK OF ALL TRADES.” “Jack of All Trades,” said to be Jack Ilulbert’s greatest success, will be shown at the State Theatre finally to-night at 7.45. Reserves, at F. J. Adcock’s, ’phone 1275. “HEAT WAVE.”

Jerome Jackson and Austin Melford can always, be relied on for sparkling comedy conceptions, liberally sprinkled with originality and the musical extravaganza “Heat Wave” made by Gaumont-British at the Gainsborough studios, is an excellent example of their work. “Heat Wave” will be shown at the State Theatre to-morrow at 2.15 and 7.45 p.m. Set in a typical South American background, in the. picturesque little town of San Felipe, the story develops the adventures of Albert Speed, a wholesale seedsman and vegetable merchant, who visits the place on the eve of a revolution. Hoffman. a gun-runner, is aboard the boat that brought Speed, and is awaiting an opportunity to land liis supplies for the revolutionaries. As luck would have it, the names of vegetables' were chosen as cede words for references to rifles ai.d ammunition, and the innocent Speed, mistaken for Hoffman, becomes involved in a maze of high-speed, farcical adventure, ranging from riot and revolution to comedy romance, finally escapinog the consequences of all—except matrmony. Reserves at F. J. Adcock’s, ’clone 1275.

COSY THEATRE.

TWO FEATURE PROGRAMME,

"The Lone Wolf Returns’ ’ and "Stars Over Broadway,” will be shown at the Cosy Theatre finally tonight at 7.45. Reserves at W. G. Perry’s, ’phone 2496. TWO BIG ATTRACTIONS. Two features are included in the programme to be shown at the Cosy Theatre to-morrow night, at 7.45. "We’re in the Money” is full of boisterous fun, with Joain Blondell and Glenda Farell in the principal parts. The fun is episodic in character and the gifted blondes weave their platinum tresses about the susceptible hearts of a number of victims. The second attraction, "While the Patient Slept,” contains comedy and thrills, combined with baffling mystery. The plot centres on the death of a member of a family which has gathered at the home of a wealthy relative who is seriously ill. While the law is on the job of finding out about the death another occurs; this time the butler passes out, and the two demises place practically everybody under the suspicion of murder. It works up into a liopeles tangle with a fool detective and a farcical police sergeant adding further to the mystery. The murderer is eventually unmasked in the most unexpected quarter. Reserves at W. G. Perry’s, ’phone 2496.