ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20247, 16 July 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES. THEATRE ROYAL. The trouble one man’s bonus got him into is hilariously portrayed In “Let’s Make a Million," a gay comedy with Edward Everett Horton In the lead. Mr Horton wanted to use the money to marry his secretary (played by charming Charlotte Wynters), but his two maiden aunts (played by “the Pixilated Sisters,” Margaret Seddon and Margaret McWade) have notions of their own as to how the money is to be spent, and when the two opinions clash the fun begins. But everything comes out all right in the end. The bark of six-guns mingles with the honks of a trained goo-se, the clatter of galloping hoofs merge with the trumpetings of a circus elephant., and bandit chieftains vie with carnival operators in “Arizona Mahoney,” a hilarious and madcap travesty of the wild and woolly West, with .Toe Cook, “Ihe one-man circus,” in the title role. CIVIC THEATRE. Combining the essential elements of music , drama and comedy, "Swing High, Swing Low,” has an unusual and romantic background of nightclub life in Panama. Teamed in the film are Carole Lombard and Fred Mac Murray, ‘and a happy combination it is. Fred Mac Murray first makes his appearance as a soldier in the Canal Zone, which job he throws up to become a trumpet player in a Panama club. Miss Lombard gets a job singing with him. Mac Murray is a champion trumpet player, but with little ambition, and although he can wheedle any sort of a tune out of his instrument, yet he is unwilling to leave the lazy Panama life for fame and fortune in New York. When he finally does go to New York, leaving his partner In Panama, he is dazzled by the new woman singer who is assigned to the number he is in. Taking to drink, the young man goes to pieces, ending up as a down-and-out on the city streets. Ilis redemption and ihe straighteningout of the romance conclude an entertaining film. Supporting players include Charles Butterworth and Jean Nixon. REGENT THEATRE. “Elephant Boy,” a screen version of Rudyard Kipling's story “Toomai of» the Elephants." introduces an Indian boy, Sabu, wfio gives a very natural and appealing performance. The film combines the uproar of wild, primitive life with the tenderness and charm of the original story. There are some thrilling scenes of elephant herds. "Elephant Boy” has a power.ul dramatic interest in the story of a boy’s love for his father and the elephant of which he Is in charge. “CAMILLE.” Never has there been so thrilling a love team as that revealed in “Camille,” to be screened to-morrow, through the unforgettable poignant portrayal of Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor. The Alexandre Dumas tale of the Parisian beauty who gave up wealth and position for the love of the one man who had ever meant anything to her, is too

well known to repeat. Suffice to say that it gives Miss Garbo the greatest opportunity she has had to reveal her talents. She dances, sings and even plays the piano. STATE THEATRE. “Nancy Steele is Missing,” with its tense thrills, begins in the troubled days of 1917, with the disappearance of the daughter of a munitions magnate. Shortly afterwards, Dannie O’Neill (Victor McLaglen), whose knowledge of the horrors of war has turned him to ardent pacifism, gets involved with a brawl with police, and in the hysteria of wartime he is given a two-year prison sentence. Framed by fellow-prisoners as the instigator of an attempted gaol-break, lie is sentenced to Imprisonment for life. A shrewd cellmate (Peter Lorre) suspects that the huge prisoner is concealing a valuable see’ ", and when. 2 0 years later, McLaglen is released for good behaviour. Lorre trails him constantly, with exciting results. That happy, scrappy Jones family moves into a new ami hilarious phase of its career in "Off to the Races,” with Slim Summerville in Hie leading role. ROXY THEATRE. A well-contrasted double-feature programme is Iwing screened. ‘ Adventure in Manhattan’’ is an amusing tale of two lovers loose in mildly mad Manhattan. The adventures alluded lo in the title comprise many of the most hilarious sequences seen in movies. They concern a crime novel author and a Broadway stage star, who unwittingly involve each other in a series of daring robberies of valuable art treasures. Joel McCrea and Jean Arthur are seen in these roles. "Winlerset” is an exciting, poignant slorv, revolving about the vindictive search of a young man for evidence 1., clear his father, who was innocently electrocuted 15 years ago. He comes lo a waterfront, district, where lie. discovers one of Ihe real participants in tlie crime, with dramatic results.