AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 461, 1 July 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

PLAZA THEATRE “Girls’ Dormitory” Although a number of screen personalities still adhere to the custom of hiving an orchestra on hand when they are performing before the cameras to “create a mood,” it remained for Simone Simon (pronounced Seemoan See-moan) to introduce an innovation that startled even blase Hollywood. The brilliant star, who is making her debut with Herbert Marshall and Ruth Chatterton in “Girls’ Dormitory,” Twentieth Century-Fox production showing to-night an'di to-morrow at the Plaza, appeared on the set with a wide variety of rare and exquisite perfumes. “To a sensitive nature perfume can create evsry variation of mood,” says S'imone. “It can make you feel exotic, sophisticated, gay demure or tragic.”

Constance Collier, J. Edward Bromberg, Dixie Dunbar, John Qualen and Shirley Deane are featured, in the cist of "Girls’ Dormitory.”

KING’S THEATRE “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 'to-night at the Kings. 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.

“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 born 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 Gallaudet 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. “Pennies From Heaven” shows alt the King's Theatre on Saturday and Monday only.