ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 18 July 1929, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE: “THE TEMPEST”

Rich in romance and action and with John Barrymore giving the finest performance of his screen career, "Tempest,” a spectacular picture having as its background imperial and revolutionary Russia, screens at the Majestic tonight for the last time. "Tempest” is crammed with action, not to mention plenty of humour, from the opening of the story, when the star is a peasant officer plunged .into the gay life of prewar Russia, to the final scenes, when he rescues a princess, his sweetheart, from bloodthirsty hordes and escapes with her to a new life of happiness. Barrymore himself never had a more powerful role than the one in "Tempest.” As peasant soldier, dashing officer, lover, prisoner and revolutionary he imbues his characterisation with the Ike and sincerity of his great histrionic ability. Camella Horn, a European star, plays the leading feminine character, and among the other players are Louis •Wolheim, George Fawcett, Ullrich Haupt, Boris de Eas and Lena Malena. To-morrow and Saturday Janies Hall will be seen in "Just Married” and Sally Edurs in “The Goodbye Kiss.”

REGENT THEATRE: “THE CLOUD DODGER” AND “ADVENTURE MAD” A programme par excellence will be presented at the Regent Theatre tonight, comprising two special features, “The Cloud Dodger” with plane-crazy A 1 Wilson, America’s greatest stunt aviator in the stellar role, and Lilian Hall-Davis, the beautiful English actress, and a great supporting cast in an intriguing romance entitled “Adventure Mad.” In the "Cloud Dodger” A 1 Williams, a thrill-mad member of the younger generation, is out riding with Ids sweetheart, Sylvia Le Movne. A 1 drives too fast and a motor cycle officer takes after him. Hr> drives at full speed to the Glendale flying fields, where he takes Sylvia up in his ’plane while the frustrated officer rides onto the field. A 1 circles over the field watching for him to leave, but instead the man calls the aerial police, who send a- police monoplane after him. Al leads them a. merry chase over the mountains, through clouds and under tile span of the Codorado street bridge in Pasadena. The police ’plane crashes and Al returns to the field, but the officer is waiting and arrests him. This is but a minor incident leading up to a series of greater thrills. Th ( . plans for both these attractions are on view at the Regent Confectionery.