ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 150, 21 March 1939, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

Tangled Domestic Situations Depicted At Regent

“'Say It In French,” which is at the Regent Theatre, is a tangle of domestic situations. Complications that arise when a young American society man (Ray Miiland) returns from abroad with a French bride (Olympe Bradna) only to learn that he must shield his marriage from lhe world and announce his engagement to a New York heiress to prevent his father's shipping business from becoming bankrupt, are shown. This unusual situation reaches the hilarious when the bride takes a job as maid with her husband’s family so that she will be near him till they surmount their difficulties. “Housemaster.” That successful play of lan Hay’s “Housemaster,” has now been made into a film with the same name —the making of films from successful plays now seems to be becoming a habit in Hollywood! "Housemaster” will begin a season at the Regent Theatre on Thursday. A special short subject. "Youth Marches On,” made by the Oxford Group movement, will also be shown. “Pygmalion” Billed At Plaza The cast of "Pygmalion,” which 'is billed at the Plaza Theatre, apart from Leslie Howard, who has the part of Professor Higgins—lhe modern Pygmalion whose Galatea is a Cockney flower-seller, is- composed of actor* and actresses most of whom are new tp the screen. Among these arc Wendy Hillier, as the illiterate Cockney who, under her Pygmalion’s guidance, conducts' herself with easy dignity at an ambassador’s reception, and Wilfred Lawson, as the flower-girl’s dustman father, whose observations on marriage and “middle-class morality” are full of pungent wit. ,

De Luxe Has Two Pictures "lu Old Mexico,” the main picture at the De Luxe Theatre, revolves about "Hopulong Cassidy’s” campaign to avenge the murder of oue ot his closes friends, a wealthy rancher, and rout a gang of bandits who have been plaguing the untamed Mexican cattle country. William Boyd, George Hayes, and Russell Hayden appear together again. J. Carrol Naish, playing the leader of a gangdom making its last stand, in “Illegal Traffic,” the other picture, will be seen as the chief of a racket, which is going on all over America today in spite of all the efforts of the. Government to rout it, the transportation of fugitives from just across State and national borders in the United States of America.

“.Men of Yesterday” and “The Scrapper.”

"Men of Yesterday,” featuring Stewart Rome, with Ella Shields and George Robey, and “The Scrapper,” featuring Mickey Rooney, will begin at the De Luxe Theatre on Friday.

Wallace Beery & Mickey Rooney In Film At St. James

In “Stablemates,” which is the film at the St James 'Theatre, 'Wallace Beery and Mickey Rooney are seen travelling round the country with an injured racehorse which Rooney has accepted as payment for services, to save the horse from being destroyed. Beery, a former veterinarian, operates and the animal is ready for the track again. Rooney does not know that Beery is an escaped convict at the beginning; later, when he learns that Beery has escaped from prison, he tries to prevent him from attending a race meeting where he will be recognized. Beery attends to watch the hornje on which he has operated win. The end of the story is thrilling; however, it is not without its pathetic repercussions. ‘.‘The Storm.

Frank Jenks, who has been greatly in demand in Hollywood film studios ever since his hilarious performance as the singing taxi-driver in “100 Men and a Girl.” which starred Deanna Durbin, and Andy Devine share the laughter-produc-ing lines in •‘The Storm,” which will be the next change at the St. Janie* Theatre. In “The Storm" Jenks is cast as an assistant wireless operator and shipboard friend of Charles Bickford. Together they experience a series of fascinating adventures in far ports and on storm-tossed ships at sea. Barton Mac Lane, Preston Foster, Lorn Brown and Nan Grey are also featured in this dramatic marine story.

Majestic Theatre Shows “The Shining Hour”

Henry Linden (Melvyn Douglas), a well-known member of a Government farm board, is about to marry Olivia Riley (Joan Crawford), a famous dancer in a New York cafe, in “The Shining Hour,'* the film version of Keith Winter's play, which is showing at the Majestic Theatre. It seems hardly credible that Olivia, a city-bred entertainer, will be able to adapt herself to life on Henry’s Kansas farm. The most active disapproval comes from David and Hannah Linden (Robert Young and Fay Bainter), Henry's brother and sister, who live with him on the farm. In fact, David flies to New York and attempts to prevent (lie marriage. But to his consternation he finds himself passionately attracted to Olivia. “Suez” Still At Tudor Seldom do the dusty records of history offer such intense emotion, stirring romance, and awesome spectacle as the great story of Ferdinand de Lesseps (Tyrone Power), who, driven by the love of two women (Annabella and Loretta Young), tore continents apart that ships might sail the desert in the short route to the East, sought in vain by Columbus and Magellan-—perhaps that is why “Suez," which is still at the Tudor Theatre, was made?

“The Young In Heart” In Second Week At King’s

Tl>e loveable, laughable story of the Carleton Family, who live by their wits and their charm and can boast of having been asked to leave only the best places from tlie Riveria to London, are the subject of "The Young In Heart” which is in its second week at the King's Theatre. Their leader is Father “.Sahib” Carleton, an ex-actor whose family loyally support him in the preposterous- myth that lie is Colonel Carl etch, late of the Bengal Lancers. This role is made to order for Roland Young. “Trade Winds.” Joan Bennett, long one of the screen’s most pronounced blondes, is seen with dark hair through almost file entire length of “Trade 'Winds.” the Walter Wnnger picture in which she is co-starred with Fredrie March. "Trade 'Winds” will begin at tlie King’s Theatre on Friday. In the story, after a mint is murdered in San Francisco, Miss Geunctt flees to Hawaii and there has her hair dyed as a means of disguise before she proceeds Io Japan and other countries of the Far East.. Subsequently March. as a romanticallyinclined detective, pursues her through Chiim. Indo-tTiina. Ceylon, Straits Settlements and India before be finally puts the handcuffs on her in the lit tie-known -endive Islands. Double-Feature Programme At State Theatre One of the most exciting highlights of “Road Demon,” the main feature at the State Theatre, is the failure of a new steering gadget, placed on n racer driven by Tom Beck. Papa Gninbini (Henry Armelin) finds himself in the auto racing biisincs.s when .Henry Arthur induces him to buy (lie wreck of an experimental car. recondition it. ami enter it for a race. The associate feature. “While New York

Sleeps,” concerns Barney Callahan (Michael Whalen), a first-class reporter of the New York “Chronicle,” and “Snapper” Doolan (Chick Chandler), his photographer, who are beginning a holiday in Long Island when their city editor telephones Barney to inform him of the “suicide” of Steve Martin, insurance detective working on a ecries of bond messenger murders. Callahan and Doolan make a mad dash for Manhattan. “Next Time I Marry” and “The Law West of Tombstone.”

The double feature change at the State Theatre on Friday will ho comprised of "Next Time 1 Marry,” with Lucille Ball, James Ellison and Lee Bowman; and “The Law West of Toombstone,” with Harry Carey.