STAGE and SCREEN COMING ATTRACTIONS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 329, 9 January 1937, Page 2

STAGE and SCREEN

COMING ATTRACTIONS.

King’s Theatre. To-day and Monday: “Devil’s Squadron” (Karen Morley, Richard Dix). “King of Castle” (June Clyde, Billy Milton). Tuesday and Wednesday: “Timothy’s Quest” (Eleanor Whitney, Tom Keene, Dickie Moore, Virginia Weilder). Thursday and Friday: “Baboona’ (Mr and Mrs Martin Johnson). “When a Man’s a Man” (George O’Brien). Saturday and Monday: “Blackmailer” (William Gargan, Florence Rice). “Mantrailer.”

so This is England: A young couple in their middle twenties who are prominent in America’s theatre world ' recently returned to New York after a sojourn in England (where the husband .was at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from Yale University) and were brimful of pleasurable recollections of rural England and the simple life. On a recent Sunday they startled the neighbourhood of their home by donning old clothes and, having planned to meet two other friends in one of the Upper East Side blocks reserved for the romplings of the city’s urchin class, they proceeded to innocently toss back and forth to each other a rubber ball. To them it was at least outdoor exercise and reasonable, he.althy fun—if not exactly like Sunday afternoon in the green parks of Britain. But the urchins thought otherwise and they stopped their play to ridicule the antics of the scholarly four. Their hoots and laughter brought down police attention and two policemen hurried along, to discover four clean-looking, decentappearing grown Americans, tossing a rubber ball about; they decided the quartet was insane and drove them out of sight With waving truncheons.

DIGGES—IRISHMAN. Dudley Digges is himself again! The Irish character actor who has entertained two continents since 1904', is once more cast as a blunt and hearty Irishman given to lusty utterances in Paramount’s “Valiant is the Word for Carrie,” the story of a woman’s sacrifice for her children, taken from Barry Benefield’s bestselling novel. A great relief it is for Digges, who at present is entertaining audiences throughout the Dominion, with a characterisation of a Chinese mandarin in “The General Died at Dawn,” a job that did serious things to his brogue, his eyes, and even his feet.

MAGAZINE STORY. Columbia have added Lionel Stander, noted comedian, to the cast for “More Than a .Secretary,” in which Jean Arthur is starred with George Brent as her leading man. Stander, it will be remembered, turned in noteworthy performances in “Meet Nero Wolfe” and Frank Capra’s “Mr Deeds Goes to Town.” In “More Than a Secretary’* he has the role of “Ernest,” a hard-boiled physical trainer. Others in the cast are Ruth Donnelly, Raymond Walburn, Thomas Mitchell, and Reginald Denny. Lionel Stander, although he made - his stage debut several years ago, is a comparative newcomer to the screen.