ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 30 July 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “GUNS OF THE PECOS.” The golden singing voice of Dick Foran, which helped finance his education .at Princeton, will be heard in two original and catchy songs in the Western star’s latc-st First National picture, “Guns of the Pecos,” screening finally to-night at the Kosy. Foran, a concert artist, before lie signed a Hollywood acting contract, will accompany himself on the guitar and sing “The Prairie Is My Home,” a cowboy ballad written in a corni-operatic vein, and “When a Cowboy Takes a Wile.’’ a novelty nmnbei. The songs arc by M. K. Jerome, First National contrad composer, whoso greatest hit was “Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight,” and Jack Scholl, who has written the words for all the numbers in the Foran . Westerns. “Guns of tiic * Pecos” is a thrilling romance of the West. Besides Foran the cast includes Anne Nagel, Gordon Hart, Joseph Crehan, Eddie AcufT, Robert Middlcmass, Gaby Fay and Gordon Elliott. Major Burton (Gordon Hart) is connu-s----sioned by General Grant to procure 5000 head of horses for the army. The Major finally gathers the horses, only to bo killed by a band of cattle rustlers inid outlaws led hv Judge Blake (Robert Middlcmass). Fteven Ainslee (Dick foran) and his partner, Jeff Carter (Eddie AcufD, are Texas Rangers detailed lo break up (ho ring and bring the killers’to justice. Stove joins the hand and learns they killed Burton "while stealing the army horses. 1\ hen Luke Brady (Monte Montague) receives payment for the horses from Blake, Steve beats Luke and grabs the cheque. Associate faturc, Chester Morris, Loo C.'arillo, and Helen Mack in Columbia’s thrilling romance, “1 Promise to Pay.”

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “CALL tFII DAY.” What the balmy breath of spring’s first day does to slumbering beaits is the theme of a. delightful comedy-drama entitled “Call It a Day,” a Cosmopolitan production released by . W arnor Brcs. and starting at the Mayfair’s late session tonight. The subject is appealing. As a stage play, “Call It a Day” ran for a couple of years in London, then for more than a year in New York. With the broader sweep of the camera, it is much better as a picture than it was behind the footlights. Big. good looking lan Hunter plays the part of a well-to-do Britisher. Ilis wife is Frieda Inescort, noted London and Broadway actrc.-s. They have been married 20 vears and are pretty much in a rut. I hen there’s a daughter of 18 or thereabouts—who’s the lovely Olivia do Haviland—and another of 15, who’s Bonita Granville, the celebrated brut of “These Three.” Peter Wiles, voting British actor, is the son of the family. It’s a well-settled, unemotional household. But spring works its magic. The husband falls in love —or thinks ho does—-with an actress client, Marcia Ralston. The wife has a proposal from Roland Young, when she meets through her best friend, Alice Brady. Olivia conceives an infatuation for a painter, M alter Woolf King, who's doing her portrait.-Her brother, Willcs, discovers charms in the girl next door, Anita Louise. All in one dav they fall into love and out. Bedtime finds them'all the same old family—a lit tle more' experienced, a lot wiser. ’Hits with the aid of smart, sophisticated dialogue, and entrancing sets.