AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 359, 13 February 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. “Our Relations.” When two Laurels and two Hardys appear at the Plaza Theatre to-night and on Monday, in “Our Relations,,” the stage should be set for, if possible, double the laughs audiences are accustomed to reap from the antics of the oddly-assorted pair. One lean, sad-faced Laurel, and one pompons, jovial Hardy, have been inseparable and irrepressible in the entertainment world for ten years, but in this production they each acquire a twin brother, portraying dual roles for the first time in a feature-length comedy. It‘s double-trouble and double-laughs in the most ingeniously funny situations ever to confront this team of stellar comedians. Even their wives (Daphne Pollard and Betty Healy) did not know or believe they had twin brothers in the new laugh hit, based on W. W. Jacobs’ story, “The Money Box.” And when they come sailing in on an old tramp steamer as their own twin sailor brothers, the way is paved for a riot of buffoonery and new Laurel and Hardy pantomime and fantasies. Thrills and excitement are added when gangsters, menacingly played by Ralf Harolde and Noel Madison, enter in quest of a fabulous-ly-valuable pearl ring entrusted in the care of the sailor twins by their ship’s captain, Sidney Toler. The sequence on the picturesque dock wharf for the finish is said to rank as the most original and spectacular of the clever Laurel and Hardy gags.

King’s Theatre.

‘The Girl On the Front Page.’

The methods of blackmail rings that have been revealed in newspaper headlines of the past were rarely more ingenious than the plans developed by the "Thursday Club” in Universal’s offering, “The Girl On tlie Front Page,” which shows at the King’s- Theatre to-night and on Monday. The blackmailers succeed in entering the employ of the most prominent wealthy families in the city as butlers, personal maids and household servants] They snoop for scandal and improvise it where it does not previously exist. The latest in household help! Working in several homes simultaneously, they meet on Thursdays to compare notes and advance their schemes. When some person is ripe for plucking, they send a representative to demand hush money. After collecting, the exclusive help goes on to another victim. This bright little scheme is finally squashed by the managing editor of the city's leading newspaper. The editor’s role is portrayed by Edmund Lowe. Gloria Stuart is seen as "The Girl On the Front Page.” She portrays an heiress who Inherits the newspaper and who engages in love quarrels with the managing editor. The blackmailing butler is played by Reginald Owen.

“They Met In a Taxi.”

When this hard-boiled yegg meets a dizzy dame who’s easy on the lies he lets himself in for the fastest, funniest frolic since the first kiss in a cab! That’s the story of Chester Morris and Fay Wray in the grandest, goofiest yarn that ever rolled off roaring from the pen of Octavus Roy Cohen. The picture’s called ::They Met in a Taxi.” and will be showing •at- the King’s Thesitre tkpnig'h't and Monday. It all started when he said “You may have heart trouble, but you’re just a pain in the neck to me!”, and finished when she said, "I do!” Here are four of the gayest characters in captivity, in the tastiest dish of love-and-laughs in many a moon! In addition to the romantic leads there are Raymond Walbnrn and Lionel Stander, the screen’s No. 1 stooge, topping his roles in “Mr. Deeds” and “Meet Nero Wolfe.” Alfred E. Green directed.