ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20259, 30 July 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES. CIVIC THEATRE. “Step *Lively, Jeeves,” is as richly enjoyable a comedy as lias been screened for a eonsidierable time. Cleverly conceived, deftly constructed and excellently acted, the film deals with a series of hilarious adventures encountered by Rupert Jeeves, the celebrated P. G. Wodehouse character. In thq part of Jeeves, Arthur Treacher gives a fine performance. An English actor of conspicuous talent, Treacher has contributed many clever character studies to previous., films, but he has rarely been as consistently amusing as in this stimulating picture. It is typical of the quality of the production that all the actors should be exactly suited to the parts they are required to play. A brilliantly witty burlesque of American gangsters, confidence men and newly-rich sociely “climbers,” the film presents a varied assortment of characters, all of whom make essential contributions to an hilarious story. REGENT THEATRE. A delightful romantic comedy, • When Love is Young.” heads the current programme to-day. The principal performer is Virginia Bruce, who ; won wide recognition by her appearI nnces in leading roles in “The Great | Ziegfcld" and "Born to Dance.” Her j current role is that of a small-town 1 girl. Wanda Werner, whose parents I think that she is the most clever and ! beautiful girl in the world. Her | classmates at high school, however, .consider her rattier Hie opposite, ami I ...he is not sorry to leave school and ! go to New York, where tier parents fund I v believe that she will become a famous opera singer. Now she finds success ami romance in Hie great city forms a very entertaining story. Others prominent in the cast are Kent Taylor, who plays opposite Miss Bruce, and Walter Brennan, who gives a fine characterisation as the girl’s admiring uncle “A STAR IS BORN." “A Star is Born.” featuring Janet Gavnor and Fredrie March, will be screened tomorrow. It is all in colour. STATE THEATRE. “The Crime Nobody Saw,” nn untwist. h.-is Lew Ayres, liiilli Coleman, Eugene Pallettc and Benny Baker in the leading roles. II is a thrilling story which moves at a rapid pace. The slorv is unusual in that it is a mystery in which there are no master-mind detectives or police officers. It is solved by three authors who are in finest of a plot for a* play which they must deliver witliiu twenty-four

hours. The mystery walks right In on them. A man is killed in their apartment; they trick all the suspects into coming to the apartment, find the guilty person, and have a first-class plot for the play. “The Hills of Old Wyoming.” an exciting Hopalong Cassidy adventure, with William Boyd in the leading role, is also screened THEATRE ROYAL. “Bulldog Drummond Escapes,” the latest Drummond adventure, begins shortly after his arrival in London by ’plane. Landing in deep fog at Croydon Field, he soon finds himself confronted with the most baffling crime of bis career. His car is stolen by a benutiful woman when he stops to Investigate a scream on the moor. The first thing he must find out is the identity of the mysterious beauty. When he does, he finds himself with two murders, a kidnapping and a counterfeit ring to contend with. And. as usual, Inspector Neilson is no help. “The Wildcatter,” an exciting drama, will also be screened. Jean Rogers and Scott Cotton have the romantic leads. ROXY THEATRE. “This’ll Make You Whistle” is a verv nierrv comedy, showing popular Jack Buchanan ns a young man in the embarrassing position of being engaged to two girls at Hie same time, whose attempts to -xtricate himkplf from the dilemma land him in further difficulties. Scenes switch from London to a French seaside re sort, for which a fashionable hotel was reconstructed, complete with ice skating rink ami a magnificent •swimming pool. Jack Buchanan dances, sings, and makes love, and in a terrific comedy climax is pursued by French police as a criminal in fact, he does alt those things that have endeared him to fllmgoers. "Flying Hostess’’ deals with the turbulent romance of a charming air hostess and an ace transport pilot who well in love with her, but who still hated air hostesses because he felt there was no place for women in the air. The glamour and the adventure of Hie huge airliners pro\idc the background for ttie play.