ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 177, 28 June 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “THE GREEN LIGHT.” } “Green Light,” the stirring story of f heroism, sacrifice and love, by Lloyd C. 5 Douglas (author of “Magnificent Obsc.s- , sion”), makes an equally impressive aps peal. The leading parts are played by • Errol Flynn and Anita Louise. “Green , Light,” will screen to-night at the Regent Theatre. Errol Flynn, the handsome Irish i romantic who won such a triumph in • “Captain Blood,” his very first picture, is the star of the film. Instead of a . swashbuckling pirate. this time, in “Green Light” he is a heroic young doctor, who sacrifices his projnising career in a great city by taking on his own shoulders the blame for an operation bungled by another. In search of some way to make lmnsolf useful to society and to prove to the girl he loves by deeds what Le cannot in honour prove by words, he goes to an obscure mountain laboratory and searches for a serum that will prevent deadly epidemics. Almost at the sacrifice of his life, he finds it, and returns to fame and love, with his professional name cleared of any and all blame. Flynn, whose performances in “Captain Blood” and “Hie Charge of the Light Bridage” won, him such honours, rises to even greater dramatic heights in “Green Light,” proving himself one of the greatest romantic “linds” of the last few years in the role of a young surgean. Lovely Anita Louise, who slimes the honours, is the girl for whose sake Flynn suffers and nearly dies. With her natural charm and genuine dramatic ability, she is perfectly cast. 80, too, is the dark-eyed Margaret Lindsay, in the role of a nurse who has always loved the young doctor, but. is not destined to have him. In the end, however, her work and the companionship of another young doctor prove compensation to her. Sir Cedric llaidwicke, who received his knighthood for magnificent work on the stage, lives entirely up to his great reputation. STATE THEATRE. “ON THE . AVENUE.” | Sw iiging merrily along to tlio tunc of the host songs e\er written by the greatest writer ot songs in the world, “On the .vvoiiue,” screening to-night at the State Theatre, represents Irving Berlin at h:s melodious best, in a musical that is full 01 pep and 1 King good spirits. V ith | Dick Maduieine Carroll making a now -and romantic twosome of musical comedy, the lively Twentieth Century-Fox musical presents a rcal-iiie romance of Now York, in a show that is as big as the town. Alice Faye, the Ritz Brothers and George Barbier add both melody and mirth .to the production. Madeleine Carroll, noted hitherto tor straight dramatic- roles, makes a charming sweetheart for Dick Rowed. The beg lining of “Oil the Avenue” finds her, as a wealthy debutante. entering a theatre with her father, George Barbier, and .an explorer, Alan Mowbray, at the moment that Dick Rowell, Alice Faye and the Ritz Brothers are engaged in an hilarious take-off on the home life of “the richest grl in the world.” Infuriated, Madeleine stalks from the tlieatie. threatens the manager with suit, and brushes past the stage doorman to snatch Alice’s wig from her find to break the window of Dick’s dressing room before she is forcibly ejected. Relenting later, Madeleine apolog ses for being a poor sport, and invites Dick to dinner. Falling in love with her. Dick promses to revise the skit, and invites tier to the next performance. At th s, however, Alice, Dick’s partner, horrifies him by adding even more caustic lines to ilio skit. Madeleine takes her revenge ori Dick for the public humiliation, but, ill it surprising scone, in wh cli the music of Irving Berlin plays a novel part, Dick linds a way to clear up the misunderstandings that have parted them and _ to bring a thrilling conclusion to. the film. Swank in its songs, in its romantic stars, and in its lovely chorines. . “On the Avenue” lias the added virtue of presenting some merrily madcap performances by reliable Hollywood fun-makers. Worthy of a separate note are the distinctive and lovely melodies Irving Berlin composed for * the film, “This Year’s Kisses,” “You’re Laughing at Me,” “Slumming on Park Avenue,” “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Mo Warm,” “The Girl on the Police Gazette” and a novelty number- written for the Ritz Brothers, called “lie Ain’t Got Rhyllmi.”