AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 17 August 1936, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

COSy THEATRE. “LADY OF SECRETS.” Columbia’s new romantic drama, “Lady of Secrets,” will be shown at the. Cosy Theatre this evening at 7.45 o’clock. Ruth Chatterton, who returns to the screen in the starring role, plays the part of Celia Whittaker, a girl who is deprived of a great love because of her father. Whittaker chases her sweetheart to his death. Twenty years later her daughter Jane is about to marry a man much older than herself, just to spite the young man she really loves. In the struggle to halt the foolhardy marriage, Celia falls in love with the man Jane was about to marry, and Jane goes back to the boy she is honestly in love with. All this despite the sorrow that Celia’s father has been heaping on her through the years to gain his own selfish ends. Others in the cast are Otto Kruger, Lionel Atwill and Lloyd Nolan. Also on the programme is “Law Beyond the Range,” featuring Tim McCoy. Reserves at W. G. Perry’s, ’phone 2496. THE REGENT. “THINGS TO COME.” The long-awaited film, “Things to Come,” described as a most astounding production from a technical point of view, will be shown at the Regent Theatre to-night at 7.40 o’clock. It depends for its appeal on the names of 11. G. Wells and Alexander Korda, author and producer, respectively, and on its extraordinary spectacle, its controversial theme dealing with peace, war, war’s aftermath, and the future of the human race, and the curiosity aroused by long and sustained publicity, rather than on star names or generally accepted standards of human interest or romantic entertainment. The story opens in 1940 with the beginning of the next World War, shows the destruction of London by gas and bombs, and then all civilisation lapsing into chaos through years of destruction. Then an international band of aviators takes control and builds a brave new world, the film closing in the year 2036 with the shooting of the space gun, when man, having conquered the world, sets out to explore the stars. Though the film follows the career of several families through a century of time, it is a drama of all mankind more than of individual men and women. Reserves at W. G. Perry’s, -’phone 2496. STATE THEATRE. “THE COUNTRY DOCTOR.” Darryl F. Zanuck’s “The Country Doctor,” showing at the State Theatre this evening at 7.45 o’clock, presents the five famous Dionne Quintuplets laughing, crooning and stealing your heart as motion picture stars. It is a story bristling with drama, comedy, pathos and adventure that presents these universally loved babies in their first feature length picture roles. Jean Hersliolt is the hero, as the doctor who dedicates his life to a tooth-and-claw battle against pain and ill in a Canadian fur settlement. Hampred by official red-tape, sorely in need of a hospital, he antagonises the heads of his company, loses his position because of the enmity of the company manager. He answers one last call for his services, and to his astonishment brings five tiny mites to the world at one birth. With a startling suddenness, the doctor finds liis position reversed. Ho is the focus of world interest, he can demand and get everything he wants' for his tiny charges. And, in the climax, the man who faced a lonely old age becomes the recipient of highest honours from the government. Contrasted against the dramatic central plot are the comedy roles of Slim Summerville and John Qualen, and the youthfully tender romance of Michael Whalen and June Lang, all contributing to the story’s entertainment power. Reserves at F. J. Adcock’s, ’phone 1275.