ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20505, 23 May 1938, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES ROXY THEATRE Intensely human, powerfully dramatic, a skilful blending of comedy, pathos, suspense, is "The Road Back.” Briefly the story concerns the efforts of a group of boys to .adjust themselves to conditions as they find them after an absence of four years spent in the trenches. "The Road Back" takes up where "All Quiet on the Western Front" left off. "The Road Back” treats of the disillusionment, the heart-breaking revelations, which come to the ex-soldiers as they find their ideals, so closely held for years, trampled under foot at home. Three of the screen’s most popular saddlemntes, “Hopalong” Cassidy, "Windy” Ilalliday. and “Lucky” Jenkins. ride to adventure and romance again in "Rustlers’ Valley,” latest, of tlie popular Clarence E. Mulford action stories. The depredations of a banker, out to snatch valuable lands from unsuspecting ranchers, provided the adventure, and beautiful Muriel Evans provides the romance. THEATRE ROYAL “Counsel for Crime” is an exciting drama. The story opens when Paul Maddox (Douglass Montgomery) a young idealist and adopted son of Senator Robert Maddox, accepts an offer upon graduating to enter the law office of William Mellon, a brilliant but unscrupulous criminal attorney. One day Evans (Stanley Fields), a gambler, comes to Mellon, telling him he has just killed another underworld figure. Mellon tells Evans what to tell the police, and then sends him to headquarters to give himself up. Following the interview with Mellon, Evans, who had not yet committed the murder, carries out the crime under circumstances corresponding with Mellon's version of the murder. In a tense climax Paul prosecutes his father and convicts him of seconddegree murder.

"The Spy Ring” deals with international espionage. What was the mystery of the cold steel “cigar”? Who killed the polo-playing secret agent? These questions are answered in exciting fashion in the film. REGENT THEATRE “Mad About Music” is an appealing story, with Deanna Durbin singing and acting delightfully. She appears as a girl at a fashionable Swiss school; she has 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 Ihe train from Paris and persuade him to support her story. Happily lie is agreeable, and so tlie grand deception goes successfully on, carrying in ils train a flow of the most hilarious situations. Deanna sings the gaily infectious "1 Love to Whistle” and leads the Viennese Boys’ Choir through the loveliness of' Gounod’s “Ave Maria.” “Chapel Bells" js another enjoyable number. STATE THEATRE Jane Withers Is very funny Jn “45 Fathers.” When Jane arrives at an exclusive bachelors’ club to be the ward of fortyfive members the hilarity begins, and never lets up for a minute as she and the Hartmans, through wild ventrlloqulstlc tricks, expose a false romance Involving a wealthy young millionaire and a scheming society girl, and bring happiness to everyone in the most uproarious climax of any picture this season. Louise Henry and Thomas Beck have the romantic leads. In the romantic comedy, “Change of Heart,” Michael Whalen, as head of a successful advertising agency, is seen as a golf widower. He returns from a business trip to find a note from his wife (Gloria Stuart) explaining that she was unable to meet him because she had to take part in a tournament. Whalen, peeved, goes on a rampage in his office, with exciting results. CIVIC THEATRE "Paradise for Two” opens in Paris, with Jacques Thibaud (Arthur Riscoe 1 struggling lo produce a new revue without sufficient money and with the responsibility of staving off creditors. One of his chorus girls, Jeanette Dupont Patricia Ellis), while on the way to a rehearsal, hails a taxi, but gels thoroughly splashed by a passing car. Tim driver, who is the chauffeur lo a millionaire. Rene Martin (Jack Hulbert . offers her a lift, but on his way to the theatre ihe car collides with a taxi, and Ihe girl arrives -late for tlie rehearsal. Gossips who recognise Ihe car she lias | been riding in assume that she is Hie protege of the millionaire, Ihe storv eventually reaching Tliibind, who at I once engages her as the leading lady of his n*vue, will, exciting and romantic results. The songs introduced include "Paradise for Two,” "Kiss Me hood-night,” ■'When You Hear Music," and "March in Springtime.” The March of Time gives a vivid picture of life in Nazi Germany. The long train had come to a halt at a wayside station when an official popped his head into a first-class compartment and barked, "Put out that pipe! This ain’t a smokingkerridge. No smoking allowed there 1” “I’m not smoking aloud," said the offending passenger, "I never do! Wouldn't think of it !" "Coo —think you’re funny, dontcher?” snorted the official, “but if you keep on breaking Ihe regerlations there's going to be trouble—see?" "Yes. I see perfectly well, thank you. Nothing wrong with my eyesight.” Tlie official glared—but suddenly smiled, said “Thank you, Sir!” and passed on. By the'way,‘the very best baccy for a long railway Journey is "toasted"; it always smokes cool and sweet. Also you can smoke pipeful after pipeful and never get fed up. Doesn’t burn tlie tongue or irritate the throat because toasting gels the “bite” clean out of it. The five genuine toasted brands. Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead . Navv Cut No. 3 f Bulldog). Cavendish. Rivcrhead Gold and Desert Gold arc simply unapproaehed for quality and full of comfort.