ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17995, 14 April 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TALKIES AT CAMBRIDGE. The first" operetta written for the tailring screen, ‘‘Married in Hollywood,” was presented at Cambridge on Saturday night, before a crowded house. It is a very lavish production with its opening scenes laid in Vienna, intermediate scenes on an ocean liner headed for America, and the final senes in the film colony in Hollywood The story concerns a philandering son of 'Royalty, who is attending an opera in Vienna where an ugderstudv “Mary Lou” is acting the star role." The Prince is intrigued with her. He sends his adjutant to command her to take supper with ■him, but she refuses. He again meets her and the romance develops. A revolution develops, and on .the night of their betrothal Royalty is wiped out. The girl departs for America, and is followed on the next boat by the Prince. A movie producer hears “Mary Lou” sing and sees the stellar qualities in her. In Hollywood under another name she becomes a star and in a strange way the one-time Prince and the stage star come together again and are “Married in Hollywood.” Harold Murray, a 'New York musE cal comedy favourite, is an ideal “Prince,” while his presence is enhanced by his superb baritone voiceNorma Perris plays the feminine lead and sings and dances in a fascinating manner. Besides the leading roles of the cast, the film has a chorus of 100 voices and 60 beautiful dancers, and the song and dance numbers prove very entertaining. CIVIC THEATRE. ■To-night's change of programme Will be headed by.“ Salute,” a stirring comedy-drama in which romance, sensation and humour are combined, with the result that the attention of the audience is held from the first, moment to the last. It is a story of two brothers —one in the Army and the other in the Navy.. One of' the high lights is an exciting football match, he picture marks the re-appearance of the handsome athlete, George O’Brien, who lias the sort of role in which he excels. Helen Chandler, a slar of New York, heads the supporting cast. The short subjects with which the programme opens are of outstanding interest. THEATRE ROYAL. “Fast Company,’’ which opened at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, is amusement of the highest order, with comedy of the best rib-tickling kind- Jack Oakie is the main reason for the laughter. He is a very clever comedian. The plot is based upon a story of baseball players written by a great American humourist, Ring Lardner. The hero, played by Jack Oakie, is a boastful but lovable slangster who wise-cracks and home-run-hits his way to the foreground, helping his team, the Yankees, to win the League pennant. He fall into the fast company of smart city-bred folks, including a show-girl and some crafty gamblers, and he almost ruins his own and his team’s chances for victory on the day of the final game of the World’s series when something happens to the whole aspect of - the plot. Oakie will add many admirers to his string with his swaggering “big league” comedy capers in this one. Evelyn Brent, as the girl who spurns him but later warms to his naive charm, does particularly well. FRANKTON’S OWN. “ The Main Event ” will head the new programme at Frankton’s Own to-night. Good supporting films will be screened. ALEXANDER WATSON TO-MORROW That master of the elocutionary art, Mr Alexander Watson, will give one of his delightful recitals of selections from famous authors at the Theatre Royal, Hamilton, to-morrow night under the direction of E. J. Gravestock, Ltd. This is his final tour. The more one sees and hears Mr. Watson the more one becomes amazed at his versatility and his power of memorising.

His repertoire is an ever-growing one, but he has not permitted his desire for versatility to mar the quality of his work. The programme for his recital on Tuesday includes the magnificent forum scene from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” with the famous orations of Brutus and Mark Antony, and Mr Watson’s thrilling presentation of the frenzied Roman populace; the first episode from Sir J. M. Barrie’s delightful novel, “The Little Minister,” describing the riot, the arrest and escape of the Egyptian; “The Ballad of the Bolivar,” “Mandalay,” “The Bell Buoy,” and “The Married Man,” by Rudyard Kipling; two excerpts from “Pickwick Papers” (Dickens), selections from A. A. Milne’s verse "When we were very young" and “Now we arh Six” (A. A. Milne), and Mark Twain’s hilarious nightmare “Punch Brothers, Punch.” The box plan is now open. SACRED CANTATA. Maunder’s sacred cantata, “Olivet tn Calvary,” will be rendered by the members of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church choir next Wednesday, together with Mendelssohn's motett, "Hear My Prayer.” The soloists are Mrs Geo. Boyes and Mr J. T. Batter sby. '