AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 339, 21 January 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. “The Three Maxims.” Herbert Wilcox’s super production “The Three Maxims” will be presented at the Plaza to-day and to-morrow. The early sequences of the film, when the Maxims are a struggling smalltime act, reveal the charming companionship of the three memlbers —a companionship which is later shattered by feelings of love and jealousy, when, on the eve of the success they had all so long and eagerly awaited, realisation comes to the two men that Pat, their Pat, is no longer a girl, but a beautiful woman—a woman to be loved. Imagine “The Three Maxims” are in tlie niicfit of their dare-devil trapeze act, while a. breathless audience watch their every move. Little do they know that up there, before their very eyes, one man is fighting the greatest battle of his life —with jealousy. Revenge seems so easysoon they are to perforin the “flying angel’’/—a mis-timed catch and his rival would be hurled to his death in the ring below. Anna Neagle as “Pat,” the lovable Irish girl member of the Maxims’ trio, adds still another triumph to her already long list of popular successes; Tullio Carminati, of “One Night of Love” fame, in a new type of role which will add to his legion of admirers, and Leslie Banks, who scored such outstanding

personal successes in such pictures as “Sanders of the River,” “The Tunnel,” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” is the strong man of the famous Maxims’ act.

King’s Theatre.

“The Human Side.”

The realism of art is often uncomfortable. In Universal's “The Human

Side," at the King’s to-day and tomorrow, starring Adolphe Menjou and Doris Kenyon, it was necessary for the two with their four children to eat scrambled eggs and bacon all one evening and in the afternoon to consume giugerWead and milk. Miss Kenyon and Menjou omitted their meals for the day but parents reported that the children did very well with dinner when they got home that night.

“One Exciting Adventure.”

The most sparkling and thrilling story of a girl w\o couldn’t resist diamonds, and of men who couldn't resist her, is coming to the King's to-day and to-morrow, with the showing of Universal’s “One Exciting Adventure.'' it is Binnie Barnes' second American film. Audiences took her into their arms in her first, “There’s Always To-morrow.” Now she is starred, and they will love her. Biunie is the newest and great-

est personality ou the screen: a bombshell of glamour. “One Exciting Adventure" is the fascinating tale of a woman who was regarded as the cleverest crook in Europe and yet she never stole a thing—except hearts. One man paid her bills though he had never met her. He followed her over half the world just to hear her say “No.”