AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 451, 7 June 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. I 8 “It Isn’t Done” i Cinesotind pioneered Australian 1 sound motion pictures in 1931 with i the production of "On Our Selection,” 1 and has continued to set the standard 1 in local films. Now, Cinesound, continuing their j world production policy, presents, in their latest release, “It Isn't Done,” the first genuine all-star cast ever assembled in an Australian picture. And what a brilliant cast it is. Sterling favourites of stage and screen, including Cecil Kellaway, Frank Harvey, John Longden, Nellie Ferguson, Harvey Adams, Campbell Copelin and Sylvia Kellaway, together with Australia's new star “discovery,” lovely Shirley Ann Richards, in a bright, breezy, modern comedy-romance that sweep you on the magic wings of entertainment from Australia to England. It will screen at She Plaza Theiitre to-night. Try to imagine the fun when a cheery, big-hearted Australian squatter inherits an Earldom and takes London society by skorm, and you’ll have some small idea of the delights in “It Isn’t Done.” He broke every rule in the book of etiquette, while his lovely daughter broke every male heart in the social register. “It Isn’t Done” .... but they did it. And how you’’l enjoy it! Leading English studies co-operated in the overseas sequences of “It Isn’t Done,” which marks another giant step forward in Australian production, with photography, settings, sound .direction, east performances, and. above all, entertainment value measuring right up to overseas standards.

Directed by Australia’s “ace” director, Ken G. Hall, “It Isn’t Done” is ready and indeed worthy of the world’s applause!

King’s Theatre. Tom Walls In “Pot Luck” Tom Walls, whose latest picture “Pot Luck” is showing at the King’s Theiitre, Straitford, to-night, has been teen i« many guises during his long career on the screen. This time, however. he surpasses himself when he visits an Art Gallery in his efforts to Hrack a guhg of art-treasure thieves, who are after a valuabl e Chinese, vase. He appears as a “grand old man" heavily clad in long gTey beiard, sweeping grey hair and a lot of clothes. His voice, too, is altered and he speaks in a thin treble which completely deceives the thief who is in the galleries hovering around ths precious vase.

This film is bubbling over with humour, yet it has its purely thrilling moments. There is the car chase through the night when Jane are Reggie (Dilaha. Churchill and Ralph Lynn, of course) follow the thieves’ car and are led to a weird-looking abbey in the heart of the country. From that point excitemei t increases, until it reaches a grand climax when the inimitable Tom Walls, as Detective Fitzpatrick, lays the crooks low.