AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 234, 15 September 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“SERVICE DE LUXE” Take tw 0l stars, three comedians, a crack director, an excellent story and a wealth of production—and literally and figuratively, you’ve . got - “Service De Luxe,’-’- the Universal laugh-maker, which screens Saturday at the. Regent Theatre. The stars are Constance Bennett and Vincent Price. Getting down to the comedy element of the offering, it’s there in an opulent degree. Charlie Buggies, Mischa Auer and Mc,l£nJJroderiek form‘a threesome that grabs ‘every inch of laugh-making material in the picture. Price is cast as tin up r state New York hoy who- has been bossed so long by maiden aunts that, when he starts for New York to peddle lii,s tractor invention, he vbws by ail his rural gddls that nary other female will boss' him. And the first person he meets . (and «i)*Bls in love with because she’s So feminine and helpless) is Miss Bent nett, whose sole business is’&bssing men. She doesn’t tell him what her . business is, and he registers heavily with her when he starts bossing her around. It’s-a new experience for them both and they love it. “OUTLAWED GUNS’? For sheer excitement, resulting- not only front tense situations buff also from furiously paced action, “Outlawed Guns.” the Universal adventure drama which screens Saturday at tin* Regent Theatre, takes high rank. In the story Jones is seen as the elder brother of O’Brien, a young man whose gambling debts place him in the power of unscnijdous men and, who eventually joins their robber band. It is when .the gang robs » stage coach that- Jones takes the trail of the bandits, primarily to rescue bis young brother but later to wreak . vengeance on the others in the band. -These sequences are vastly thrilling and bring the picture to a climax in which romance venters the life of the stalwart Buck. \ i “SON OF FRANK UN STEtN” * ■«. Dread heritage of the liankeusteins, a man-made monster of'iuhuC? man temperament and proportion, returns to cut another bloody swath across the screen when Universal’s brand-new spine-chiller, “Son of Frankenstein,” opens, Monday at the Regent Theatre. Basil Ratlibone has the title role as a scientist who takes up the work snapped short by. his father’s death twenty-rfive years before, and brings -back to a. life of- human devastating the monster who made .flesh creep hSU the original production of “FTankeii~» stein” and its successor, “Bride of F rankenstei-n. ” Boris Karloff .creates the monster role, and Bela Lugosi of “Dracula” : fame assumes an even more harrowing characterisation as Ygor, brokennecked. mad shepherd, cut down front the' gallows. Lionel A twill, Josephine Hutchinson. .Emma Dunn, Donnie Dunagan and Edgar Norton have other leading roles.