ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 140, 14 May 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “EVERYBODY’S DOING IT.” • A high speed romance, unfolded in tho heat of a nation-wide advertising' contest that gets out- of control, forms 'the theme of “Everybody’s Doing It,” RICO Radio’s new offering with , Preston . Foster and Sally Eilors in tho starring roles. Based on tho current rage, for puzzle contests, the film. reveals in lively fashion what happens when racketeers decide to profit by various features of a contest originated to sell a breakfast food product. One of the crooks decides to kidnap the artist who draws the puzzles, and the other evolves his own racket of selling answers to tho public, and their respective schemes clash. Foster and Miss Eilers have the romantic leads as commercial artists in the breakfast food company’s advertising Department, who perfect tho idea for the contest. Tho two favourites aro excellently cast as a pugnacious pair of lovers. With many of the scenes filmed in a large advertising office, (he inner. workings of advertising campaigns and the painting of advertising posters is- .revealed for perhaps the first time on tho screen. Supporting the stars is a notable group of players. Lorraine Krueger, the dancer who scored in “New Faces of 1937,” plays her first featured role ns a cafe entertainer. Richard Lane and Guinn Williams are cast as racketeers, Cecil Kellaway as head of the breakfast food concern, and William Brisbane as his timid son, with Arthur Lake, Frank M. Thomas, Jack Carson and Solly Ward in important roles. “Lily of Laguna,” starring Nora Swinburne, Richard Ainley, and John Payne’s Negro Choir, tells a grand romantic story of Ireland, set to the lovely traditional musio ol Eire REGENT THEATRE. “THE WOMEN.” The one-hundred-per-cent feminine cast of “The Women.” starring Norma Shearer. Joan Crdwfod and Rosalind Russell, is no joke. Tho film, opening at the Regent Theatre to-morrow, not only boasts of a human cast of 135 females, but a feminine animal cast as well. All saddle horses, dogs and cats appearing before the camera had to be of the "gentler” sex, and some 25 blue-bloods of this variety were required.. Every animal in tho picture is of the feminine sex. These include three monkeys, Stupid, Dizzy and Feather!) -ain, which appear in the fashion show dressed in costumes duplicating those of 'the stars. Even photographs and art objects are all feminine. Books used in the library are all by women writers and no title is used which refers to a man. Based on the Broadway hit play by Clare Bootl), the new picture has Norma Shearer in- her first sophisticated modern roi. since “Riptide,” Joan Crawford in In i first “heavy” role, and Rosalind Ilussei* in a striking characterisation as a vicious gossip. George Cukor directed.