King’s Theatre

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 422, 1 May 1937, Page 3

King’s Theatre

To-dp.y and Monday: “Killer at Large” (Mary Brian, Russel Hardy), and “Postal Inspector” (Ricardo Cortez, Patricia Ellis, B ia Lugosi). * * * Tuesday and Wednesday: “Daniel Boone” (George O’Brien, Heather Angel). ’•GREEN PASTURES.” “Green Pastures,” the film which has scored a brilliant success in London after being held up by the authorities on the ground that the depiction of the Deity on the screen was contrary to British custom and taste, will be released in the Dominion shortly. Based on the American negro conception of heaven and the Old Testament story, the picture retains all the qualities that made the. stage production known as “America’s best loved play.” It is said to be the most pretentious production ever attempted by Warner Bros., and Was filmed in the same lavish manner as “A, Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Captain Blood,” and "Anthony Adverse.” Nothing was spared in the making of the film to give this inspiring play the majestic background it deserves and to make it one of the outstanding screen dramas of al time. .The drama is enacted by a tremendous cast, with 111 speaking parts and nearly one thousand other players. Rex Ingram, whom the author, Marc Connelly, declares to be one of the greatest actors in the world, has the role of De Lawd, made famous by Richard Berry Harrison, who played the part through the five years of the stage run. THE KING AND CHORUS GIRL. ) The filming of Mervyn Leßoy’s* first production in the combined capacities of producer and director, “The King and the Chorus Girl,” starring the sensational French actor, Fernand Gravet, bias been completed ?.t th? Warner Bros, studios. On Christinas. Eve Leßoy gave a party at his bungalow for the entire cast of the picture, as well as for many cth .r well-known Holly wood folk. By way of return, on the last d»ay of shooting, Leßoy was presented, on the set<, with a plaque by the cast of “The King and ithe Chorus Girl,” and another plaque wag presented to Ferdinand Gravet to commemorate his first' American film. Among the many gifts received by producer-director Leßoy was a bo'ttl? of whisky from the girls who worked in the lavish Rue de la Paix musical number in the picture. With the bottle was a card suitably inscribed with: “To the King, from the chorus girls.” Joan Biondell has the leading feminine role in the picture, and some of the other principals are Edward Everett Horton, Mary Nash, Alan Mowbray, Luis Alberni, Jane Wyman. With the presentation at the Auckland Town Hall this week of Eugene O’Neill’s famous 'drama “Anna isi tie,” the Auckland Little Theatre Sosociety inaugurated the experiment of a season of plays put on successively by four honorary producers instead of by a professional.