ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19631, 18 July 1935, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES

STATE THEATRE. j i | “The Unwelcome Stranger” is very j entertaining. The story deals with a : superstitious horse-breeder who was | afraid of nothing—until a stranger : ruined his luck and shattered his ro- . mance. Thrilling situations lead to a satisfactory conclusion when Jack| Holt, with the woman he loves turned j against him, is given a new lease of j life by the very stranger lie feared. Mona Barrie is cast as the sympa- j thetic, understanding wife of Holt, and Jackie Seai’ie portrays an orphan child. ' “Tiie Silver Streak,” featuring Sally •Blanc and Charles Starrctt, is a romantic comedy-drama. “THE DICTATOR."’ In “The Dictator,” to be screened on Saturday,. Clive Brook and Madeleine Carroll present the central characters, Dr. Stniensee and Queen Caroline respectively. The locale of the story i s •the court of Denmark, and the period the latter part of the ISth century. REGENT THEATRE. "The Gold 'Diggers, of 1935” preserves all the dash and colour of the earlier -films of this nature, and yet is altogether different. For the first time Busby Berkeley, who has staged all the elaborate numbers that make these pictures so spectacular, has been given charge of the whole production, and the result is a lighthearted, tuneful creation that swings along at a lively pace, is full of the unexpected, and never falls below a high standard. The big tap-dancing ballet is especially striking. Dick Powell sings pleasingly, and he and 'Gloria Stuart provide the charming romance. Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert and others arc very amusing. “FOLIES BERGERE.” Maurice Chevalier has never been seen to better advantage than in “Folies Bergerc,” to be screened tomorrow. The support of an excellent oast, together with some delightful musical numbers and a spirit of gaiety which never Hags, make it outstanding entertainment. THEATRE ROYAL. In “The Casino Murder Case” Paul Lukas brings to the screen a third distinctive portrayal of Philo Vance, S. S. Van Dine’s famous fictional detective. Rather than present a purely dramatic mystery, Producer Lucien Hubbard has chosen 'to make the newest Vance thriller an unusually humorous yet mystifying story, with rapid-fire action and sparkling dialogue. That the new picture has its funny moments is assured by the fact that the inimitable Alison Skipworth Is prominently cast as the domineering “Mrs Llewellyn,” around whom much of the action circles. The new baffler concerns the latest adventure of Philo Vance and his unusual solution of a series of poisoning mysteries that envelop the wealthy and eccentric Llewellyn family. “HOME ON THE RANGE.” In the picturisatiori of Zane Grey’s outdoor romance, “Home on the Range,” which will head the new programme to-morrow, Jackie Googan and Evelyn Brent return to films again. Jackie Coogan, now a strapping six-foot man, makes his adult debut, and Miss 'Brent returns, after more than two years, in another of her typical “bad-girl” roles.

CIVIC THEATRE. “Sailor Be Good" presents the popular comedian Jack Oalcie in a speedy comedy of a hard-fighting, fast-loving sailor who is trained in love and fisticuffs by his waterfront sweetheart, played by Vivienne Osborne. Tiie development of the entertaining story keeps the audience interested. “No Other Woman,” featuring Irene Dunne and Charles Bickford, tells the romance of a steel worker’s rise to riches and the domestic crisis that arrives with it. How Ihe problem is solved makes a tensely interesting drama. "WEREWOLF OF LONDON." Anyone who likes lo feel his flesh creep will enjoy "Werewolf of London,” to be screened to-morrow, it has all tlie ingredients which make for a good film of this class—mystery, a basis of the uncanny find the conflict between iovc and hate. The werewolf, according lo legend, is half-man, half-wolf, and is forced to prowl each mouth in the light of Ihc full moon, and instinctively seeks lo kill the thing it loves best.

ROXY THEATRE

Acting the role of a lovc-sick, chivalrous Princeton student, Bing Crosby, in “She Loves Me Not,” sings and woos his way to the great romance with the daughter of the university dean, after 'Miriam Hopkins, as the madcap, night-club dancer, enters Ids life, and leaves him a sadder but wiser college lad. Bing introduces three song hits, "Straight from the Shoulder,” “Love in Bloom,” and “I'm Humming, I’m Singing.” “Hadiu Parade of 1033” is a spectacular production, full of tuneful music, clover ballets and merry comedy.