KING’S THEATRE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 460, 30 June 1937, Page 8

KING’S THEATRE

“Night Waitress”

A British actress from Cape Town by way of London and a minister’s son from lowa are brought together in real life in the teaming of Margot Grahame and Gordon Jones as the featured players in RKO Radio’s adventure picture, “Night Waitress,” to be screened on Tuesday and Wednesday next.

Miss Grahame, who appeared in some forty British films before making her American screen debut in “The Informer,” was born in Canterbury, but received her education in South Africa, where her father was a theatrical producer. Jones waq born in a litle lowa town where his father was a Congregational minister, and was educated in Colorado and California.

The two players, with their widely separated backgrounds, appear together for the first time in “Night Waitress,” a stirring tale of mystery and action on the San Francisco waterfront.

“Pennies From Heaven”

Columbia’s “Pennies From Heaven” should. . get the palm as the year's most tuneful picture as well as one of the most amusing. It gives Bing Crosby a sprightly vehicle for some of the catchiest songs you have ever heard.

And Bing’s acting talents are becoming more apparent with each film he makes. He is a bojn comedian: and he gets plenty of opportunity to show his wares in this picture, for it is literally filled with laugh-provoking situations and dialogue. Bing is nobly aided and abetted in his foolery by a royal cast that includes Madge Evans, Edith Fellows, Donald Meek, John Gallandet and Louis Armstrong, coloured king of swing music, and his band.

Miss Evans does her role to a turn, supplementing a natural gift of loveliness with some very capable acting. Donald Meek once again does the trick, sqeezing every laugh out of a part that just drips with comedy. John Gallaudet, in a brief appearance, is completely convincing in a difficult role.

“Go West Young Man” How to get a young rural Inventors mind off his invention—and on to romance—is the problem of Mae West in her new Paramount starring vehicle, “Go West Young Man,” to be screened next week. Randolph Scott is the young man more interested in the potential fame and fortune that his invention may bring, but when Mae West displays some of those famous Westian wiles —well, the most avid scientist might be expected to forget his work. This situation takes place on a typical Pennsylvania farm and is the first time the glamorous actress appears in a modern outdoor setting. She is about to fall hard for Scott, something she is specifically prohibited from doing by the terms of her contract, when Warren Williams, hetpress agent, saves the day by “crabbing” the romance, only to find himself hopelessly wound up in it himself.