ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18359, 19 June 1931, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ITO-NIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. THEATRE ROYAL. “Outside the Law” tells a thrilling story. Cobra Collins, gang leader, demands a fifty-fifty cut on tfie returns from a bank robbery planned by “Fingers” O'Dell. Connie, in league with “Fingers,” makes the ac[ualntance of Cobra in order to watch lim and throw him off the trail of Fingers." O’Dell robs the bank of alf a million, and with Connie, hides i an apartment while planning to get way. They make friends with a ur-year-old youngster, only to learn at his father is a captain of police id living next door. Cobra finds their ding place and makes a call. As Is at 'the door, the police captain rives. Suspicious, Cobra and the policeman “shoot it out,” each wounding the other critically. “Fingers” and Connie find themselves in a dangerous position. The policeman is carried ■vto the apartment bedroom, and Conic calls a doctor. Cobra had de- ■ tnded his share of the money, and, :pg refused, searches the room and is tlie money. He dies trying to ke his escape. “Fingers” and nnic working frantically over the iice officer, realising that if he dies i’.;y will be blamed. “Outside tjhe w” comes to a thrilling climax.

BTRAND THEATRE. “Outward Bound” is one of the most beautiful, dramatic, romantic, and thought-compelling stories ever filmed. It has to do with two lovers, who after a day in the English countryside, return to the slums with the determination to keep the love they have found, in spite of the world's condemnation, and for that reason plait to together slip from this sphere of living into the next. They find themselves on a strange ship which forges through fog, without crew, captain or lights, bearing seven persons, of all sorts and conditions, to the Vast Unknown. The culmination of the adventure must.be seen to be appreciated. It is enough to say that the play has a strangely fender fascination that is irresistible and unlike that of any other picture. “Outward Bound” is a screen adaptation of the international stage success of Sutton Vane. In it are featured Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Helen Chandler, Beryl, Mercer, Alec B. Francis, Alison Skipworth, Lyonel Watts, Montagu Love and Dudley Digges. Robert Milton, who directed the Broadway production of the play, performed the same office for tlie screen version. CIVIC THEATRE. “French Leave,” which will open a season at the Civic Theatre to-night, begins as a comedy and ends on a note of hilarious farce. Produced In England at the Elstreo studios, the uproarious wartime skit is said to be even more amusing than “Splinters,” shown in Hamilton some months ago. The quandary of a young officer whose wife, having grown lonely, arrives at the Front to meet her husband, has been used as the basis of a ludicrously funny picture. The gcnesal and his retinue, which includes Hie young husband, are billeted at a French country inn, where tlie iirelly wife, posing as a French nia:d, becomes (lie centre of admiration lor Hie group ol infatuated soddiers. in spite of ills discomfiture tlie young man docs not dare confess the truth for fear of the wrath .of the. general. Th.e principal players arc Madeleine Carroll, of “Escape" and “Young Woodley," as Juliette, Haddon Mason, in the role of. the jealous husband, Arthur Chesney, who makes a splendid general, and Sidney Howard (well remembered in "Splinters") the ardent but scorned orderly.

ROXY THEATRE. Two musical comedy stars appear together In the Paramount production of “Monte Carlo.” Jack Buchanan, England’s favourite, and popular on the stage In Mew York, appears in the leading male role, and his personality pleases. Ills voice, too, is heard to advantage in several of the delightful numbers .of the picture. Jeanette MacDonald, remembered for the beauty of her voice and pulchritude in “The Love Parade” and “The Vagabond King,” is the lady of the play.

J. O. WILLIAMSON COMPANY. The box plans will be opened tomorrow at nine o’clock for the first representation here on Monday night of St. John Ervine’s brilliantly Cleveland unique English comedy, “The First Mrs Fraser," and for the production of Noel Coward’s delightful and highly amusing comedy, "Hay Fever," which is to bo staged on Tuesday evening and in which the company is at present attracting record audiences in Auckland. A brief outline of the story of “The First Mrs Fraser" will prove of interest to playgoers. James Fraser (J. B. Rowe) has been divorced by his first wife Janet (Ethel 'Morrison) and has married Elsie (Mary MacGregor), a very bright young thing, who is barely half his age. Janet’s two grown sons, Ninian (John Wood) and Murdo (Roger Barry), side with their mother. Four years have elapsed since this family eruplion when the curtain rises, and James ,is discovered calling at Janet’s flat to obtain her advice. He Is received with friendly courtesy, and confides to Janet that Elsie is asking for a divorce in order to marry a man with a title, but with the inconsequence of youth she is endeavouring to induce James to take all the blame and give her grounds for aotlon. The wise Janet gives comfort and advises resistence. Not to be checked in her plans, the second Mrs Fraser calls on Janet and asks for her assistance in Inducing James to allow her to divorce him. Her cheerful contempt for the older woman rouses Janet Into action, and she determines that there will be a divorce, but that it will be James who will be the petitioner. The second act closes with a brilliantly acted scene between Janet and Elsie, in which flic cider woman, by sheer generalship and will power gradually breaks down Elsie's colossal assurance and selfishness, and brings her grovelling io heel, and from here on to the Anal fall of Ihe curtain the interest is maintained. As Jane!, Miss Ethel Morrison, it is said, presents a delightful representation of Ihe wise maternal woman who lias refused lo allow her life to lie broken by her divorce. The scene between Ihe lirsl and second Mrs Eraser at Ihe dose of the second art rouses the audience lo a pilch of enthusiasm. On Tuesday evening will lie staged, by special request of numerous playgoers of Hamilton, Neel l.ovvaid s icfresiling English comedy, “ilay Fever." which ran for over Iwo years in 1.0n,1,,,i 'piio staging and frocking of both productions are said lo he up to the bin-best standard of J. Li. Williamson. Lid.

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