AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 203, 5 July 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

"ROOMS SERVICE” With its triple theme of interrupted romance, wild hilarity and shady financial dealings, "Hoorn Service” comes to ' the Regent Theatre, on Thursday and -Friday-, with the zany Alarx Brothers, Grouch'd,Chico*, and Harpo. The jnirthful plot deals .with the ingenious ruses and stratagems used by a penniless theatrical producer to keep himself, two , assistant maniacs and a cast of twenty-two in his new play,iir a fashionable,hostelry until he can procure an “angel” to finance his production. By guile 'and promise, he lives on credit until this temporary paradise is rudely shattered when the. auditor of the chain owning the- hotel comes on the scene and demands immediate payment-. A backer makes his appearance at the same time,' and the unhappy producer isi forced to play off one against the other, striving toi keep the hotel official quiet until lie gets his money from the financial man. The scheme is- wrecked but the- hilarioiis climax presents a stream of explosive antics which wind up the gayest, most delirious Marx show to date. "HOLD THAT KISS” . : "Hold That -Kiss”, which screens at the Regent Theatre next- Saturday, stars Maureen O’Sullivan, Dennis O’Keefe and Mickey Rooney and provides a mixture of. hilarity, romance and intimate human touches. The comedy romance of smart Now. York

•society presents O’Keefe, .Hollywood’s I attest discovery in rojnautie leading meir in his first role its a. modern young American, following In's introduction a.i v a Western hero opposite Virginia Bruce in “Bad Alan of .Brimstoned’, . *. ■Deftly directed by Edwin L. iYhirin, of “Everybody Sing” fame, the story revolves around a .• clerk)' and. a shopgirl who mistake each other for social! celebrities, and " their, •••coinicul trials and mishaps in trying to keep up 'then deception. Mickey lioonev plays the herpine’s '.'’young brother who between his clarinet-playing and throats to expose., her- secret adds tribulations galore to her life* until a dinner party in a fashionable apartment borrowed for the occasion clears up the deception amtll ai It u mo reus climax clears tli o! path of true love*. ‘LAW WEST OF TOMBSTONE,” A frontier feud that began in Texas and ended in a little Arizona town, comprises the dramatic, basis of Harry Carey’s new screen vehicle, “The Law West of Tofiibstone,” which .screens at the Regent Theatre next Saturday. The feud lies between -Carey, in the role of the braggart, but dead-shot Bill -Barker, and the McQuimi" brothers. a trio of would-be xlesperacloes. Coming to the boiling point shortly • alter the story opens, .thns cju’ffrrel carries on through the'colourful efforts of Barker to establish himself as May.-. or, Judge and jury of western‘Arizona, and winds up in a .graphic and breathless gun duel in the- streets of the little frontier community,... -v Vf'-'* Against tliis grim bat , kgrou»d'"ts" played'a sparkling roimrrfce between

a : young gun-fighter whom Barker has taken under his wing- and-Barker’s daughter, who believes herself an orphan whose father was kjlled at Gettysburg. ______