ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20506, 24 May 1938, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES BTATE THEATRE “Ladies Should Listen” is a very funny Continental face, in which a young man-about-town in Paris gets into all sorts of complications with an option on a South American nitrate concession, and too many girl friends. The efforts of a telephone operator, who is in love with him. to extricate him from his troubles only help to complicate matters. Tn the principal male role Cary Grant displays great ability as a farceur, aided by Frances Drake, who is very pleasing as the telephone operator. Of more than passfnsr interest is the hotel doorman, in which Charles Ray. former star of country hoy roles, stages a comeback. “We Who Are About to Die.” featurlng Ann Dvorak and Preston Foster, is as sensational as its title. It tells of the dramatic rescue of a young man. found guilty of a murder he did not commit, from the gallows. REGENT THEATRE Deanna Durbin’s latest film. “Mad About Music.” is attracting very large audiences at the Regent Theatre, and the season has been extended. Personality and splendid acting and musical gifts are combined by this great screen favourite. Deanna appears as a girl at a fashionable Swiss school; she has no father, and he. 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, with exciting and amusing results. Deanna sings “I Love to Whistle,” “Ave Maria,” and “Chapel Bells.” CIVIC THEATRE “Love on a Budget” is based upon the tribulations of Herbert and Bonnie Thompson, a young married couple. Herbert is determined to furnish the new- home when he can afford to pay cash; Bonnie is convinced by Uncle Charlie that the proper method is the dollar-down. dollar-a-week plan. I:i due course this leads to typical spats of the newly-weds. “Love on a Budget" presents Jed Prouty. Shirley Deane. Spring Byington, Russell Gleason, Kenneth Howell, George Ernest, June Carlson. Florence Roberts and Billy Mahan in entertaining roles. “Everything Is Thunder,” featuring Constance Bennett. Douglass Montgomery and Oscar Homolka, Is a gripping drama revolving around a British officer’s escape from a prison camp during the Great War. Apealing romantic angles arise from the fugitive’s friendship with a 'Berlin street waif who hides him in her flat.

THEATRE ROYAL “They Met in a Taxi” ts a comedydrama of a pseudo-heiress, who turns to a taxi-driver for help when police accuse her of the theft of a pearl necklace. Chester Morris and Fay Wray enact the featured roles, with such outstanding players as Lionel Stander, Raymond Walburn, Henry Mollison and Ward Bond in support. The story revolves about the plight of charming Mary Trenten (Fay Wray), a dress model, who Is accused of stealing a pearl necklace from an heiress bride while modelling the wedding dress in the wealthy girl’s apartment. The dreaded Devil’s Island serves as the locale for a highly exciting melodrama called “Escape from Devil’s Island.” Victor Jory Is seen as an adventurous international spy i who escapes a sentence to Devil’s | Island only to go there voluntarily in j a mad attempt to free his compatriot- j in-crime and the father of his sweet- ! heart. 1

ROXY THEATRE “Tlip Road Pack” is a very impressivo sequel to “All Quiet on the Westorn Front.” The story concerns the efforts of a group of boys to adjust, themselves to conditions as they find thorn after an absence of four years spent in the trenches. Tt treats of the disillusionment, the heart-break-ine: rovelations. which come to the ox-soldiers as they find their ideals, so closely hold for years, trampled undor foot at home. "Rustlers' Valley” brings back three of the screen’s most popular saddlemates, "Hopalong” Cassidy. “Windy” Hallidav. and “Lucky” .Tonkins. The depredations of a banker, out to snatch valuable lands from unsuspecting ranchers, provide the adventure. and beautiful Muriel Evans provides the romance. “The Singing Bandit,” a revue, is a sparkling production.