AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 415, 23 April 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. “Land Without Music” The glorious voice of Richard Tauber will be the main attraction at the Plaza Theatre, Stratford, to-night, when the musical production, “Land Without Music,” is to commence a season. Tauber has proved such a success in such pictures as “Blossom Time” that his Inclusion in the cast of any film practically ensures its popularity, but in “Land Without Music” he excels himself, and moreover the numbers that he is called upon to sing are more especially suited to his particular vocal capabilities than anything he has previously sung upon the screed. A further happy feature is that Tauber’s songs are fitted neatly into the story and create no break in the sequence, as has sometime been the case in musical productions in the past. Apart from the masterly singing and acting of Richard Tauber, the film is notable for a highly entertaining performance by that master of comedy Jimmy Durante. He has the part of a newspaper correspondent, and infuses into the role much humour of a delightful quality. The performance of Diana Napier also is outstanding. The supporting programme is well up to the standard of the main feature.

King’s Theatre. Wheeler & Woolsey Comedy. Murdey, qj)4 anjong the anciept tombs qf rigytyt are in store for Bert Wljeelpr Robert Woolsey’s legion of fans the popular team of comics comes to: the King’s Theaibre to-iiight, in “Mummy’s Boys.” The crazy comic’s nineteenth feature together, this RKO Radio film recalls the famous “curse of King Tut” so widely head-lined in connection with strange deaths that struck many members of the expedition that opened his tomb. A lusty satire on the “terror type” of mystery thriller, it takes the boys from ditch digging in New York to shoveling in the Valley of the Kings, graveyard of Egypt’s Pharaohs, in the face of a similar curse. The fact that a fiend is employing the supernatural threat of death as a blind for his dirty work spices th* hilarity with thrills and leads to a high-ten-sion climax when the boys and their new leading lady, Barbara Pepper, are trapped in a spooky underground crypt with the murderer. Miss Pepper, who romances opposite Wheeler, is a lively young blonde beauty who got her start by being “glorified” by the late Florenz Ziegfeld. In the Wheeler and Woolsey tradition of plentitude of pulchritude, ten attractive young ladies romance with Woolsey. . With Moroni Olsen, Frank M. Thomas, Willie Best, Mitchell Lewis and Francis McDonald, topping the cast, “Mummy’s. Boys” was directed by Fred Guiol. Lee Marcus, who supervised “The Nit Wits” and “Love On a Bet” as well as the above mentioned, comedies, produced.