AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 August 1936, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT. “BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE ST.” . “The Barretts of Wimpolo Street” is to be shown again at the Regent Theatre finally to-night, at 7.45. Reserves at Perry’s, ’phone 2496. TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE. The first natural-colour picture of the outdoors, Walter Wanger’s production for Paramount of “The Trail of the Lonesome Pines,” opens at the Regent Theatre to-morrow, with Sylvia Sidney, Fred Mac Murray and Henry Fonda in the starring roles. “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” based on the famous novel of the same title by John Fox, jun., was filmed on a location almost exactly like the Cumberland Mountain country in which the Fox novel was set. Under direction of Henry Hathaway, who also directed “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” it Avas filmed entirely in the ucav threecolour technicolour jirocess. The picture folloAVs the Fox novel closely. Miss Sidney and Fonda are members of the Tolliver clan, continually at feud Avith their neighbours, the Falins. Their first contact with the civilisation of the outside Avorld comes when Mac Murray, a young engineer, arrives to build a railroad line through their hills.' 5 Miss Sidney is immediately fascinated by the stranger, and Fonda, avlio has alAvays loA r ed her, is aroused to jealousy that knoAvs but one laAv —to fight and kill for the things he holds dear. But as he sets out to folloAv his code the Falins set out after him. The. climax that folloA\ r s brings the film to a stirring conclusion. ReserA-es at Perry’s, ’phone 2496. STATE THEATRE. “THE WITNESS CHAIR.” “The Witness Chair” Avill be shoAvn at the State Theatre finally to-night, at 7.45 o’clock. Reserves at F. J.' Adcock’s, ’phone 1275." • v "\ SPECIAL MATINEE. . A special fid matinee. Avill be held at the State Theatre to-morroAv, at 2.15, Avlien the first episode of “The Great Air Mystery” and “The Cowboy Millionaire” Avill be shoAvn. “SHE MARRIED HER BOSS.” Starting to-morroAV evening, at 7.45 o’clock, Claudette Colbert Avill be. shown in “She Married Her Boss,” a picture that is said to be one of the best she has made since the iioav immortal “It Happened One Night.” It gi\"es her CA-ery opportunity to display the piquant charm that has so endeared her to the jnovic-going public. The film is, in essence, a comedy, but enough of the dramatic runs through it to give it backbone. Headed by Melvyn Douglas and Michael Bartlett, Miss Colbert’s tAvo leading men, “She Married Her Boss” boasts also of the services of such sterling players as Raymond Walburn, Jean Dixon, Katherine Alexander, Edith Fclloavs, a child star avlio is delightful as any juvenile, and Clara Kimball Young, who comes out of retirement to do very Avell in a small part. Reserves at F. J. Adcock’s, ’phone 1275. COSY THEATRE. TWO FEATURE ATTRACTIONS. “Four Hours to Wait” and “She Loa’cs Uniform,” Avill be shoAvn finally at the Cosy Theatre to-night. lieseiwcs at Perry’s, ’phone 2496. “THE LAW IN HER HANDS.” 1 ‘ The Luav in Her Hands, ’ ’ a First National comedy drama, combining hilarious laughter and dramatic thrills, comes to the Cosy Theatre to-morroAV. There is a talented cast, headed by Margaret Lindsay, Glenda Farrell, Warren Hull and Lyle Talbot. The plot is said to move Avith rapid fire action from the first sequence, Avlien a bomb is dropped in a restaurant by a racketeer to the dcaioucment in which a boss gangster is convicted of poisoning milk for babies and killing Avit-ness-es to cover up his tracks. The final court trial is amazingly sensational, a Avoman laAvyer turning her own racketeering client oA’er to justice after he had kidnapped her and forced her to defend him by threats against her life. Other court trials are decidedly humorous. Glenda Farrell aids and abets Miss Lindsay in her nefarious though hilarious tricks to free their racketeering clients. Chief of the gangsters is Lyle Talbot. Reserves at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.