ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19903, 4 June 1936, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES.

1 ROXY THEATRE. ; “It You Could Only Cook" provides plenty of romance and comedy. Her—bert Marshall is seen as a millionaire who is 'disgusted because he is about to marry a girl he does not love and who does not love him. And, further, because the board of direc—tors has been annoying him. He goes and sits in the park, Where he meets a. girl (Jean Arthur) who is scanning the advertisements for a job. She mistakes him for another unemployed member of society and invites him to go with her to answer an advertisement for a marriedcouple, a butler and a maid. 0n the spur of the moment he accepts, and oil so the millionaire and the girl and get the job. From this point on the tale is tilled with complications which provide much merrimeut. ‘

In “Mark 01' the-Vampire" a weird sky is one of the principal effects to produce a sense 01‘ fear and fore—boding in a thrilling plot set in the midst of a country‘ infested with a fantastic vampire cult. Elizabeth Allen, Bela. Lugosi and Lionel Atwill have the principal roles.

STATE THEATRE. “Girls \Vill Be Boys" is a very amusing comedy. It tells of Pat Caverley (Dolly Hass), a vivacious girl whose grandfather is an eccentric old man to whom the mere thought of a women about the place ‘is poison. Consequently when he receives a letter addressing him as “Dear Grandfather," which is signed “Pat Caverley," he yells “Hurrah! a male heir,” and immediately despstches his secretary, Grey (Esmond Knight). to fetch the young fellow from Paris. But when Grey reaches Paris the “young fellow" turns out to be a girl, with entertaining results. In “Man or Aran" thrill follows thrill in the exciting encounters with sharks. but even the desperate nature of this work is OVBr—shadowed by the wonderful scenes of a raging sea, lashed by a llerce south-west gale. \VHEELER AND \VOOLSEY. Those popular comedians Wheeler and VVoolsey will be seen in "Silly Billies" to-morrow. “Sinister House.“ a thrilling mystery story, will also be screened. ‘ GIVIc THEATRE. “King of the Damned" tells of a 'powerful love story enacted in strange surroundings. Under notice of release a convict (Conrad \‘eidu has never—thcless planned a rebellion among his fellow—convicts on the island of Santa Maria, in order to prove to the authorities the terrible conditions 'under which the prisoners live. The Commandant’s daughter, Anna (Helen Vinson, who married the tennis cham—pion, Fred Perry), on a visit to her dying father's bedside, senses the undercurrent of mutiny in the settlement, and finds, too, a sudden attrac—tion fcr the convict. Revolt comes, and dreadful violence. Further disaster is brought about when a cruiser off—shore, acting on false instructions. opens fire on the helpless convicts. But with the promise of freedom the convict and Anna sail away to happi—ness. SHIRLEY TEMPLE. Clever little Shirley Temple, most popular of all stars, will be seen to—morrow in “Captain January," in which she is more appealing than ever. slim Sumtnerville and Guy Kilihee are in the supporting cast. 1

REGENT THEATRE. Ronald Colman, as the young lawyer, Sydney Carton, whose love for Lucie Manette sends him to the guillotine in the place of her lover—husband, Charles Uarnay, gives a striking performance in “A Tale of Two tiities.” Elizabeth Allen is an appealing Lucio, and Donald Woods 8 manly Dar—nay; Edna .\lay Oliver gives another sterling character study as Miss iPross; Basil Bathbone is a. sinister Marquis St. Evremonde; Blanche Yurka, stage star, makes Madame De—farge an outstanding figure. There ‘are impressive scenes depicting the slaughter of the arise—‘crats, the rise of the Revolution, the Isinister Bastille, the trial of Darnay ‘hei’ore the mock court, and the hun—dred and one incidents of the Dickens story. “30 RED THE ROSE." “So Red the Rose," to be screened on Saturday, is a romantic and stirring account 01‘ the turbulent clays of the war between the North and South in America. Margaret Hullnmn and Jinn—dolph :icott have the romantic lends. MUSIC REGITAL. 1 1 At the ticntrcuny Tcarooms on 3 Monday night, under tho auspices «it the Hamilton Music Siuilonts' .\HSLH‘LL— Iion, :L i'uuilni will in: given. Songsi “ill be given by Miss thuvn linriling; (soprano) and Mr Robert Simnn‘rs (baritone), of Auckland, and Miss} Margaret Roe (Violinist) and .\lr: Stanley ,lrunes {pianist} will play at Beethoven Sonata.