ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20524, 14 June 1938, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES THEATRE ROYAL Jewel thieves, a front-page reporter, a thrill-seeking girl and a Federal agent posing as a “bad man.” provide the adventure-bristling elements of “Woman Trap.” Thrill follows thrill in a crescendo of dangerous situations, with death from the bullets of a gang of fugitive desperadoes facing Gertrude Michael and George Murphy in their perilous romance. Following a hold-up, a shooting fray ends the life of a double-crossing member of the gang, with exciting results. “Every Night at Eight” is a fast, hilarious story of the popular amateur radio hours. How George Raft and a group of girls rise from lowly amateur ranks to become the country’s leading favourites is told in a series of amazing, amilsing sequences. The songs include “Then You’ve Never Been Blue.” “Take It Easy,” “I Feel a Song Coming On - ’ and “Speaking Confidentially.”

CIVIC THEATRE “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” a film suggested by the popular story by Kate Douglas Wiggin, stars Shirley Temple 1 in one of her most entertaining roles. Sunnybrook Farm becomes a broadcasting studio, but not until Shirley Temple has led sundry people on a hectic chase. It starts when Anthony Kent (Randolph Scott) decides that Rebecca (Shirley Temple) is just the child singer whom he has been seeking to feature his “Craekly 'Grain Flakes” radio feature. His bungling assistant (Jack Haley) sacks her, however, and she has to be found again. Staying with her aunt, down on Sunnybrook Farm, Rebecca Is having the time of her life when the radio station scouts locate her, and their business gets all tangled up with rural prejudices. In addition to six new song hits written for the production Shirley Temple repeats the. most popular songs that she has sung for the films since she started her screen career, beginning with “The Good Ship Lollipop.” The new songs are “An Old Straw Hat,” “Alone With You,” “Happy Ending,” “Craekly Grain Flakes,” “Come and Get Your Happiness,” and “Toy Trumpet.” REGENT THEATRE

“Broadway Melody of 1938” is a sparkling production, beginning on the racecourse and ending with a typical successful night of a show brought to the stage against fearful odds. In between there are excellent dance numbers by Eleanor Powell and George Murphy, the amusing antics of that lanky, shuffling coknedian Buddy Ebsen, and the singing of the vital Sophie Tucker, and Judy Garland, a 14-year-old girl who almost steals the honours of the film. Robert Taylor is appealing as the romantic lead. “THE BARRIER” When an army offioer on duty In Alaska falls in love with the daughter of a squaw man, complications are inevitable in their romance. This is the problem in “The Barrier,” to be screened to-morrow. One of the finest novels over written by Rex Beach, “The Barrier” is played by a cast including Leo Carrillo, James Ellison, Jean Parker, Otto Kruger, Robert Barrat, Andy Clyde and Sara Haden. STATE THEATRE

“Dangerous Intrigue.” with Ralph Bellamy. Gloria Shea and Joan Perry in the featured roles, js an exciting melodrama sot. against a background of molten steel and roaring blast furnaces. Bellamy is seen as Tony Halliday. a brilliant young surgeon, forced to resign his position a schief surgeon at the hospital owing to circumstances beyond his control. He retires to a small mill town and gains employment as assistant to the company physician. He soon finds himself involved in a conspiracy to wreck the mill by a series of explosions, but heveals the conspirators and saves the property. “Educating Father” tells a happy, hilarious story of how. the youngsters of the Jones Family bring dad up to date. Jed Prouty plays the title role of “Dad” Jones, who finally graduates from the school of experience, after going through a series of, to him, harrowing adventures. Shirley Deane, Dixie Dunbar, Spring Byington, Kenneth Howell, June Carlson, George Ernest, Florence Roberts and William Mahan are also featured. ROXY THEATRE Stories of the Mexican border are almost Invariably colourful and picturesque. When blended with exciting melodrama, a touch of comedy, and a tender romance, such as are the ingredients of “Guardians of the Air,”

the result Is splendid entertainment. The story concerns the efforts of the Government agents at the international line to solve the mystery of daring aerial smuggling of contraband goods and to round up an apparently wellorganised gang. Mark Owen (Charles Quigley) is a trained flier, a Government undercover agent, despatched to the border to aid the Border Patrol officers. Nancy (Rosalind Keith) is a pert newspaper reporter assigned to the airport where planes take off to carry couples across the border for Mexican marriages. ‘ Way Out West” is a very funny Laurel “and Hardy comedy, and “Sunday Night at the Trocadero” gives intimate glimpses of film stars.