ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20503, 20 May 1938, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES BTATE THEATRE Jane Withers starts throwing things around, studies Louise Henry’s interest in Thomas Beck, and joins up with the Hartmans, who help her throw voices, dancing and discretion to the winds as 45 millionaire club members throw up their hands in "45 Fathers.” Surrounded by a splendid cast. Jane raises a riot in an exclusive bachelors’ club when its member sadopt her. exposes a false romance, and brings happiness to everybody.

A jealous husband, a golf-crazv wife and a society playboy start a threecornered fight to the finish in "Change of Heart’’—and what a funny finish it is! This production featuring Gloria Stuart and Michael Whalen is full of fun, punctuated by conjugal warfare and connubial reconciliation, set on the links of a golf club. THEATRE ROYAL “Counsel for Crime," featuring Jacqueline Wells and Otto Kruger, and "The Spy Ring,” with William Hall and Jane Wyman, will be screened to-day. What was the mystery of the cold steel "cigar”? Who killed the poloplaying secret agent? Was a blonde enchantress the catspaw or brains of the spy ring? These questions are answered in exciting fashion in "The Spy Ring.” Jane Wyman and William Hall are attractive in the romantic leads, and Jane Carlcton. Jack Mulhall and others give good support. The story holds the close interest of the audience throughout. "Counsel for Crime” is a drama of quite a different kind, but equally entertaining. It is a story of the underworld, with all its drama, comedy, romance and thrills. With its interesting dialogue and exciting situations it makes splendid entertainment. A strong cast is engaged, and the settings are intensely realisticCIVIC THEATRE "Paradise for Two” has as its leading players the popular English actor Jack Hulbert, with his inimitable humour, dancing and singing, and the bpatitiful Hollywood actress Patricia Ellis. The setting of the picture is Paris, with Jacques Thibaud (Arthur Risroe struggling to produce a new revue without sufficient money and with the responsibility of staving off creditors. <>ne of his chorus girls. Jeanette Dupont < Patricia Ellis), while on the way to a rehearsal, hails a taxi, hut pels thoroughly splashed by a passitur ear. Tim driver, who is the chauffeur to a millionaire, Rene Martin ' Jack Hulbert). offers her a lift, but on his way to the theatre the car collides with a taxi, and the girl arrives late for the rehearsal. Rebuked by Thibaud. she leaves her position, but gossips who recognise the car she has been riding in assume that she is the protege of the millionaire, the story eventually reaching Thibaud, who at once re-engages her as the leading lady of his revue, with exciting and romantic results. Among the outstanding features of the production are four songs, including "Paradise for Two," "Kiss Me Good-night,” "When You Hear Music” and "March in Springtime.” The March of Time contains a sensational section entitled "Hitler and the Jews—Nazi Germany Ready for War.” REGENT THEATRE "Mad About Music” is splendid entertainment. Deanna Durbin has the role of a girl at a fashionable Swiss school: she lias no father, and her mother, as a screen actress typifying the modern "glamour girl.” is unable to admit to the world that she has a 15-year-old daughter. The girl is led into telling her schoolmates that her father is a great explorer, but a climax arises when she declares that he is coming to visit her—and then has to grab the most suitable looking man off the train from Paris and persuade him to support her story. Happily he is agreeable, and so the grand deception goes successfully on, carrying in its train a flow of the most hilarious situations. Herbert Marshall is ideally cast as the bachelor who allows himself to be ensnared into a bogus parenthood. Deanna sings the gaily infectious "I Love to Whistle.” and leads the Viennese Boys’ Choir through the loveliness of Gounod’s "Ave Maria." "Chapel Bells” is another enjoyable number. ROXY THEATRE Jane Withers, the popular child actress, singing hilarious new songs and performing new pranks, scores a great triumph in "Can This Be Dixie?” The songs include “Pick, Pick, Pickaninny,” "Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a Cabaret Now,” "Does You Wanna Go to Heaven?" and "It’s Julep Time in Dixieland.” Surrounded bv an excellent cast, including Slim Summerville, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Sara Haden, Claude Gillingwater and Donald Cook. Jane goes through a series of amusing adventures as she saves the old homestead, unites a pair of lovers and brings happiness to everyone. In "Crimson Romance” the air sequences are among the most thrilling and spectacular ever filmed. Dozens of machines are seen in deathly combat. Ben Lyon and Sari Marltza have the romantic leads, and the strong cast also includes Herman Bing, Hardie Albright and Erich von Stroheim. "THE ROAD BACK” "The Road Back,” a sequel to “All Quiet on the Western Front,” and "Rustler’s Valley,” a Hopalong Cassidy adventure, will be screened to-morrow.