AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 388, 20 March 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. “The Ex-Mrs. Bradford.” For the third time in their screen careers, William Powell and Jean Arthur find romance between them blossoming under the sinister shadow of murder. Miss Arthur is co-starring opposite Powell in “The Ex-Mrs. Bradford,” a romantic mystery drama. It is her first appearance since "The Green Murder Case” with the star who has become the screen’s foremost gentleman sleuth. Those pictures presented Powell as Philo Vance —detective extraordinary. In “The Ex-Mrs. Bradford,” showing at the Plaza to-night and Monday, Powell is again on the trail of murder. He plays a physician who is drawn into the investigation of a race track jockey’s mysterious death. Miss Arthur is seen as his divorced wife, whose principal concern is removing the "ex” from their marital status. Eric Blore, James Gleeson and Robert Armstrong are featured in support of the two stars in this RKO Radio picture.

King’s Theatre.

“THE MAN I MARRY.” Most men like to feel that the world turns around them and most women prefer the idea that they turn the men around their little fingers. This striving for mastery between men and women is the keynote of Universal’s romantic comedy. “The Man I Marry,” which will commence to-night, at the King’s Theatre, Stratford. In the central role Doris Nolan runs away from a wedding with a man she disdains. Then she encounters, in her uncle’s country house, a handsome young playwright, in the person of Michael Whalen, who is trying to revise a play. When the lady induces her relative to put on the script written by her newly-found friend, she causes the pla:j wrlght to troth at the mouth, syes and ears because he is a woman-hater. Ken Maynard takes the leading role in “Lawless Riders,” the associate feature.