ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 January 1931, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT:“MONTANA MOON” An, excellent romance of the West woods and hills of America, “Montana Moon,” which opened at tlie Regent Theatre last night is splendid entertainment. The film is bright and chatty with, several beautifully photographed sets, and wonderfully harmonised choruses. The picture is laid on a Montana ranch and its scenes of cattle grazing on. the wide plains, its tremendous mountains and its deep canyons make the production worth-while for its pictorial effectiveness alone. Miss Crawford is seen as the daughter of a millionaire with considerable holdings in Montana., who conies from Now York with a party of friends to spend a brief vacation on her father’s ranch. Joan tires of the sameness of the conversation and the behaviour of the party and deserts the train at a wayside station. She is eventually atraeted by the singing of a boundary rider Larry, at his camp on the borders of the ranch. She falls in love with the boy whose honest, rugged character seems a relief lo her after a season with her society friends. After she marries him she finds that he looks with disgust on her luxurious manner of living, and that he will not mix with her friend.-, Amusing complications follow and Larry resents the attention showered on Joan by a member of tho party. Ricardo Cortez is the luckless man who suffers at Larry’s hands. Miss Crawford’s acting is excellent and John Mack Brown as Larry interprets the western accent effectively.. Ricardo Cortez plays his part pleasingly and other prominent players are Dorothy Sebastian, Benny Jtubin and Karl Dane. The suppofßng programme is a strong one. The We voice of the popular coloured singor’ucorge Dewey Washington is heard in “Just he a builder of dreams” and “Down Among the Sugar Cane’ ’, and the fieetful Harmony Pair Earl and 801 l sing numbers “La Spagnola,” “Blue Ilawai” and “Just a Melody” with guitar accompaniment. The popular comedians Laurel and Hardy appear in a comedy “Perfect Day” and as usual kept the large audience in roars of laughter. “Montana Moon” will be screened to-night for the last time.

MAJESTIC THEATRE: “THREE GODFATHERS” TO-MORROW Peter By Kyne’s most remarkable story, “Hell’s Heroes,” will be seen at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow evening, as tho all-talking sensation. “Three Godfathers. 1 ' This is easily one of the most (unusual and distinctive pictures ever screened. Its -plot deals with the reactions of three western bad men when they find themselves with a new-horn baby on their hands in the midst of the desert. They had promised the child’s mother, beiorc they died, that they would take the baby to the little frontier town of New Jerusalem. A killing trip across the dosel't awaits them —and they know that at New Jerusalem, if they ever get there, the noose is waiting also. This dramatic situation furnishes material for a picture rich in romance, pathos and humour. Many of the scenes were filmed in the Mojave Desert, and the realism of the picture is startling in its intensity. Acting ability of the highest order features the production. There will be a full programme of featurettes.

CLARA ROW IN “LOVE AMONG ! THE MILLIONAIRES” I I A completely transformed Clara Bow will provide sparkling entertainment for patrons of the Majestic Theatre on Saturday next, when her new and altogether different all-talking hit, “Love Among the Millionaires,” will he screened. After the release of this attraction, the press unanimously announced that a new Clara Bow had been brought forward. She is d iffercnt in every way. She acts! better, looks better, and what is more j important, speaks delightfully. The plot | of the story is bright and snappy from beginning to end, and there is a won- j derful supporting cast including that in- j triguing child impersonator, Metzi Green. Sheets Gallagher and Stewart Erwin provide delightful comedy, and Stanley Smith is the dashing hero.