AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 432, 13 May 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. “Dancing Pirate” With screen imitations' introduced In elaborate profusion "Dancing Pirate,” the first feature-length musL cal comedy-drama ever filmed in the new Technicolour process shows ait the Plaza Theatre to-night. The result is a production calculated to arouse world-wide interest, bo h as an entertainment and as a technical achievement. It is the entertainment aspects' of the picture which bide tor its greatest popularity, providing as it does a lavish diverting show. However, the pictorial advances revealed mark a new milestone in cinema art. Among the innovations in this Pioneer Pictures film is an idela termed “imaginative colouring,” designed by Robert Edmund Jones, long regarded as the foremost authority in America on stage settings, colbur and lighting effects. It represents Hollywood’s initial attempt to use colour as it has been employed for centuries by the greatest of painters and is said to have resulted in clearer images, more reality and in complete removal of the dazzling gaudiness which characterised: earlier colour pictures. " Beyond these add other important artistic features, the production boasts a fine featured ciast including the screen’s new dancing star, Charles Collins, from th e New York .and London stage; Frank Morgan in the type of comedy he handles best; Steffi Duna, dynamic ingenue; Victor VaT_ coni, Jack Laßiie’ and the Royal Clansinoe, formerly command enter, tainers to the King and Queen of Spain and impressive dancing ensemble?

“Under Two Flags.” One of a long Succession of desert romances which have been produced in fiction and on the screen with the same outstanding success; the celebrated story of Guinda, “Under Two Flags,” makes even greater history as, one of the most notable pictures to come in recent yeiars from the 20th Century Fox studios. It will show at the Plaza on Saturday and Monday. Finely acted and produced with telling realism, the tale makes excellent entertainment. It is one of those few films which anyone with a love of action, true dramatic 'art and excitement appreciates from beginning to end. Directed by Frank Lloyd, the magnitude at the whole production and the infinite pains obviously taken to secure the correct atmosphere are most impressive. It is an epic picture. The simple tale of love and jealousy in an exotic desert setting still weaves its spell. Many stories have geen woven around the Foreign Legion since Oulnda first captured th a imagination of an oldef generation, but the sad ta.le of Cigarette and her gre/at love for years to come. In spite of a charming performance from Claudette Colbert and a shorter, but equally accomplished, interpretation from Rosalind Russell,

Ronald l Colman dominates the story. As a sergeant in the Foreign Legion, whose past is mysterious but entirely honourable, he has a part to which he is admirably suited). His cultured but slightly melancholy air gives just the right touch to the character and one lives with him in his tri. tumphs and hardships with on e of the greatest fighting forces the world has ever known. As major of the bla-ttalion, a blustering, forceful fellow, but a fine soldier, Victor McLaglen, also has a part which allows him full scope. His affection for Cigarette and his jealousy for the regard, and later the love, she shows for Colman, is the driving theme. The [ scenes of the fighting in the desert I are without precedent. The photo, gi*aphy rates with the best yet seen on the talking screen. King’s Theatre. “The Mighty Treve” “The Mighty Treve,” the Universal picture featuring Noah Beery, junr., and Barbara Read, shows at tlie King’s Theatre to.night. The story, taken from the novel “Treve,” by the noted author Albert Payson Terhune, relates the adventure, romance and pitfalls encountered by a young fellow when he set out to make his way in the world. The movie gains its dramatic force from the simple direct way in which it is presented, according to advance reports. -After Noah meets Barbara he discovers that her uncle, a sheep owner, is an eccentric person with a cowering fear of dogs. Noah and his dog Treve are ordered off the ranch. Then Barbara gets in some fancy diplomacy and Noah remains with his canine pal, who later saves Uncle's lite. Treve wins a number of prizes at a dog show.

The climax of the story is reached when owners of surrounding sheep ranches accuse Treve of being a sheep killer. They are about to execute him when an unexpected development saves the animal. George Robey’s famous eyebrows have gone into action again for his latest production, “Southern Roses,” a fragrant musical comedy romance that sparkles with joyous entertainment, which also screens at the King’s on Thursday and Friday. The well-known comedian has Gina Malo, vivacious dancing and singing star, and Neil Hamilton as his confederates in this merry production which was made by Grafton films. Opening in the picturesque settings of Barcelona, "Southern Roses” is the story of a young naval officer, who meets and falls in love with a charming cabaret artiste, Mary Roland, not knowing that she is really an English society girl on an escapade. “Girl Overboard” Thrilling, heart' pulsing drama comes to the King's on Saturday and Monday, with the screening of Universal’s fast moving story of fire at sea, “Girl Overboard!” With Gloria Stuart and Walter Pidgeon in the leading roles, “Girl Overboard!” tells the gripping story of a hunted woman who stakes everything—even life itself—for the man she loves. “Girl Overboard!” will thrill you with its sweeping action, haunting drama and tender love story. Beautiful blonde Miss Stuart plays the role of a girl who flees from a too persistent suitor —later to be enmeshed in the net of the law and accused of the man’s murder. Walter Pidgeon plays the District Attorney who is expected to prosecute the woman he loves. Highlighting this unusual screen offering are some of the most amazing and realistic ship fire scenes ever filmed. In the inferno of this burning ship Gloria sees destroyed the only proof of her innocence of murder. Flames reach out and consume the written confession of the real killerleaving Gloria a fugitive from justice. Besides Miss Stuart and Pidgeon, the cast includes such favourites as Billy Burrud, Hobart Cavanaugh, Gerald Oliver Smith, Jack Smart, David Oliver and Charlotte Wynters. If you like realism, drama, swift potion—-then don’t miss “Girl Overboard!”

They used to say in England once upon a time, that the seductive Cigarette would sooner or later supplant the W altogether, but “the trade,” In the 61d Land, says that pipe smoking there was never more popular than at the present time. Parsons, lawyers, doctors, politicians are all patrons of the pipe, and Mr. Baldwin s cherrywood has become world-famous. New Zealanders smoke millions of cigarettes every year, but the pipe still holds pride of place With smokers innumerable in Maoriland. As for tobacco, tastes proverbially differ, but it’s no less true that “toasted” is first favourite with smokers throughout the length and breadth of the Dominion. The five genuine toasted brands, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullsbead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold, and Desert Gold are in incessant demand, for it’s now generally recognised that while they give the most enjoyable smoke it’s possible to get, they are (thanks to toasting) the purest and least harmful of any tobaccos manufactured. And you never tire of them! Once you take to toasted you’ll never want to change.