ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20253, 23 July 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES. I CIVIC THEATRE. Laughable, prankish, riotous —that ! is Jane Withers In the starring role in j “The Holy Terror,” which makes her the joy of the midshipmen and the despair of the admirals. Aided and abetted in her madcap career by Anthony Martin, Leah Rav, Joan Davis, El Brendel and Joe Lewis, she sings her way into trouble and dances her way out again. As the pet of the Navy Air Base, Jane Withers gets into such mischief that Anthony Martin, a sailor, Is assigned to look after her. This is all right with Jane, because Anthony, in love with Leah Ray, the owner of the Golden Anchor, a sailor’s hangout, spends most of his time at the inn. However, Jane and her sailor pals, already in trouble for battering a navy official, in the belief that he is a spy, incur further displeasure when the musical show they present at the inn breaks up in a free-for-all, started by mysterious strangers in sailor garb. There is plenty of fun and excitement before the film finishes. REGENT THEATRE. “Mad Holiday" is an exciting drama. The “movie within a movie” angle of the picture centres upon Edmund Lowe appearing as a Hollywood star who, sick at being typed in mystery parts, walks off the set and takes a fateful coastwise steamer voyage. Elissa Land! also embarks on the steamer, determined to bring the actor back at any cost, even to devising a make-believe murder. When the hoaxed murder turns out to be a real one the complications begin. GRACIE FIELDS. “The Show Goes On,” Grade Fields’ latest musical picture, will be screened to-morrow. Gracie plays an entirely sympathetic part with fine conviction. The part of Mac, the man whom she loves, and with whom she quarrels when their ambitions clash, is well taken by John Stuart. Owen Nares takes the part of Martin Fraser, the musidan, who first finds Sally (Grade Fields) in a pierrot show, and who trains her to sing his melodies. BTATE THEATRE. “The Hollywood Cowboy,” a fastaotion story, is laid in the picturesque Wyoming plains near a cattle shipping point. Here a Hollywood motion picture company is filming a Western movie film starring Jeffrey Carson (played by George O’Brien). When the production is finished O’Brien and a friend take a short hunting trip into the cattle country, scene of a heartless reign of terror perpetrated by a gang of big-city racketeers, with exciting results. A gripping story of love, conflict and sacrifice, played against the colourful background of the early gold “diggings” in California, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” comes to the screen as the recreaUon of Bret Harte’s story. A chapter of the exciting serial, “The Last Frontier," Is also screened. THEATRE ROYAL. "Clarence” is the story of a recently discharged soldier (played by Rosooe Karns) who Is taken into Eugene Pallette’s home as a man-of-all-work. He finds the daughter (Eleanore Whitney) in love with a much older man; the son (Johnny Downs) In Ipve with his sister’s governess; the maid trying to shake Johnny down, and the butler threatening the bewildered boy. lie also finds Pallette in love with his own wife, but she chooses to believe that her husband is In love with the beautiful governess. The story develops In a very entertaining fashion. “The Accusing Finger” Is a powerful story of circumstantial evidence, in which a district attorney is himself caught In a web of circumstances which almost send him to the electric chair. Marsha Hunt and Robert Cummings head the cast. ROXY THEATRE. Opportunities to sing “La Donna e Mobile,” from "Rigolelta," in Italian, two folk songs and three popular tunes, including the title song and “Lullaby," exercise Bobby Breen’s beautiful voice in “Let’s Sing Again.” George Houston is another gifted singer. The sfory is centred upon an orphan (Bobby Breen), who i* lured away by a travelling tent show. Joe Pasquale. its handyman, lakes Bobby under his wing, and the story develops in interesting fashion, working up to a surprise climax. With its romance, sentiment, and ! comedy, “They Met in a Taxi" owes j much of its appeal to the performances contributed by its four-star cast. Chester Morris, Fay Wray, Lionel ! Stander and Raymond Walburn. Mysj tery and comedy are combined very I cleverly. TO-MORROW'S ATTRACTIONS. j “A Message to Garcia,” featuring ! Wallace Beery and Barbara Stanwyck, and “Private Secretary," with Edward Everett Horton in the title role, will be screened to-morrow.