ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 149, 20 March 1939, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

“The Shining- Hour” at Majestic

"The Shining Hour” at the YlajetJtie Theatre contains plenty of opportunities lor a good ca<st. That cast consists of Alargaret Sullavnn, Joan Crawforu, xMelvyu Dviiglas, Hubert Young, and Fay Bain ter. ‘Margaret Sulla van give« a restrained, deeply-moving and utterly sympathetic portrayal as Judy Linden, whose husband fallen in love with his brother’e* wife, Olivia, the part taken by Miss Craw ford. Muss Crawford shows tiiat s-he has not lost her ability as a dancer. De Luxe Double Programme Of "lu Gid Mexico,” it is perhaps unnecessary to say more than that “Hopaioug” Cassidy (William Boyd) is back again at the De Luxe Theatre. As the title indicates, Mexico is the setting for the newest of “Hopaloug's” adventures, which involve him with bandits and darkeyed senoritas. The second feature, “Illegal Traffic,” is a racketeering thriller with plenty of chases, murders, and an ending as wildly exciting as anybody could wish. The (story moves briskly along with J. Carroll Naish as the sinister head of a transportation firm engaged in the lucrative business of helping criminals to escape the police. “Stablemates’’ at St. James Wallace Berry, recalling somewhat his role in "The Champ,” where he was a broken-down pugilist, appears in “Stablemates," at the St. James Theatre, as a broken-down veterinary surgeon. His ulimate regeneration is still brought about by his affection for a youth who “adopts” him. Mickey Rooney has the role, originally created by Jackie Cooper; of the boy for whose sake Beery becomes a better mau, and he handles it with his usual great skill. “Pygmalion” At Plaza "Pygmalion,” at the Piaza Theatre, is more than a very good film. It is an event; and that applies particularly to the screen debut of AA’eudy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flowergirl. Professor Higgins for a bet turned her into a great lady, who passed with royalty, and then, having satisfied his inordinate ego, he tried to throw her back into the gutter. Through every stage of Eliza's transformation. AA r endy Hiller is perfect. As the boorish, callous professor of phonetics, Leslie Howard is magnificent. The rest of the cast reads like a “AA’ho’s AA’ho” of the English' stage. AU of them help the picture’s triumph.

Two Goods Films At State “Road Demon,” now at the S.tate Theatre is packed with the excitement and suspense of automobile races, and has some enjoyable comedy from the foreign dialect comedian. Henry Annetta, who is head of an amusing family known as the Gambin is.. “AA’hile New York Sleeps” is the second of a new series of films featuring Michael AVhalen as a bumptious reporter, and Chiek Chandler as a comical cameraman. The story involves the unorthodox solving of a murder-mystery, contains rapid-fire comedy, a plot which is not disclosed in the fijgt reel, a very pleasant performance by Jean Rogers as the heroine ; and one or two songs. “The Young In Heart” at King’s "The A’oung In Heart” at the King’s Theatre, introduces an eccentric family, the Carletons, whose sole ambition in life is to get money without working, and wh o trot happily about the globe looking for

people to cheat. Head of the family is that magnificently droll comedian. Roland Young, as Colonel Anthony Carleton Hjs wife is Billie Burke, as leather-brained as ever; and their children are Janet Gavnor and Douglas- Fairbanks, jun., a likeable pair oi young rascals who help to keen the wolf from the Carleton door by searching cut heirs and heiresses. Also in a fine cast are Paulette Goddard and -Minnie Duppree.

“Say It In French” At Regent

Ihe action of “Say it in French,’’ at the Regent Theatre, takes place in New York whither the hero (Ray Milland) brings his French bride (Olympe Bradna), onlv to discover, that, for the sake of the failing family fortunes, he is expected to marry an heiress (Irene Harvey). It is the wife herself who, with -truly Gallic logic, suggests a way out of the difficulty that she should masquerade as a maid in her mother-in-law’s house, while her hXess d pretends t 0 I,e courting the “Suez” At Tudor “Suez,” at the Tudor Theatre, has feautres, quite apart from the ’two dtar« lyrone Power and Loretta Young, which make it an entertaining film. Chief of these features is the representation of a Zobah-hah, ’ or devil wind of the desert.” Among (the colourful, well-portrayed historical figures who move across 'the screen are Disraeli (Miles Manderl, Prince Said (Edward Bromberg)), Napoleon 111 (Leon Ames), and De Lesseps' father (Henry Stephenson).