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PROGRAMS AT THE REGENT (Cont'd) - page 14 |
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| Program No. 114 - June 6-12 , 1931 | ||||||
| Feature Film: "Min and Bill" (M.G.M. 1930) with Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery | ||||||
| Support Films: "Reno" (Fox, 1930) with Ruth Roland | ||||||
| Stage: -no detail- | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
| Review: (Herald, June 5, 1931, Advert) | ||||||
| "MIDNIGHT SHOW, FRIDAY" | ||||||
| Min and Bill will arrive in their Cinderella coach at 11.30pm and 3KZ will broadcast the wonderful event. All your favourite stage celebrities will be there, including Jennie Benson, Stan Foley, Athol Tier and all Ernest C. Rolls' "Follow A Star" company, together with the ever popular Hector St.Clair (Tivoli Theatre) joining in the revels. | ||||||
| Part proceeds donated to the £50,000 Queen Victoria Hospital Appeal and all the nominees of the Business Girls' competition will appear on stage. | ||||||
| Electric trams leave for all suburbs at the conclusion of the midnight show. Fare 6d. | ||||||
| Prices (midnight show) - Stalls 2/2, Dress Circle 2/6, Lounge 3/6 | ||||||
| Program No. 115 June 13-19 , 1931 | ||||||
| Feature Film: "New Moon" (MGM, 1930) with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore | ||||||
| Support Films: "The Perfect Alibi" (Associated Talking Pictures, 1930) with C. Aubrey Smith | ||||||
| Stage: - A Night In Hawaii" | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
| Program No. 116 - June 20-26, 1931 | ||||||
| Feature Film: "Don't Bet on Women" (Fox, 1930) with Jeanette MacDonald and Edmond Lowe | ||||||
| Support Films: "Men Call it Love" (MGM, 1930), with Adolphe Menjou and Leila Hyams | ||||||
| Stage: - no details - | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
| Program No. 117 - June 27 - July 3, 1931 | ||||||
| Feature Film: "Madam Satan" (M.G.M., 1930) with Reginald Denny and Kay Johnson | ||||||
| Support Films: "Once a Sinner" (Fox, 1930) with Dorothy McKall | ||||||
| Stage: - Nominees in the Queen Victoria Hospital Appeal Business Girl Competition | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
| Program No. 118 - July 4-10, 1931 | ||||||
| Feature Film: "The Office Wife" (First National, 1930) with Dorothy McKall and Lewis Stone | ||||||
| Support Films: "The Royal Bed" (Radio Pictures, 1930) with Lowell Sherman and Mary Astor | ||||||
| Stage: -no detail- | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
| Program No. 119 - July 11-17, 1931 | ||||||
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| Program No. 120 - July 18-24, 1931 |
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| Feature Film: "The Prodigal" (MGM, 1930) with Lawrence | ||||||
| Tibbett (pictured right) and Esther Ralston | ||||||
| Support Films: "Mr. Lemon of Orange" (Fox, 1930) with El Brendel | ||||||
| Stage: - no detail - | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
| Program No. 121 - July 25-31, 1931 | ||||||
| Feature Film: "Body and Soul" (Fox., 1930) with Elissa Landi and Charles Farrell | ||||||
| Support Films: "Girls Demand Excitement" (Fox, 1930) with Virginia Cherrill | ||||||
| Stage: - - no detail - | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
| Program No. 122 - August 1-7, 1931 | ||||||
| Feature Film: "A Tailor Made Man" (MGM, 1930) with William Haines | ||||||
| Support Films: "Stepping Out" (MGM, 1930) with Reginald Denny | ||||||
| Stage: -"Cavelleria Rusticana" featuring the Regent Concert Orchestra and a violin solo by Will Cade | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
| Program No. 123 - August 8-14, 1931 | ||||||
| Feature Film: "Parlour, Bedroom and Bath" (MGM, 1930) with Buster Keaton | ||||||
| Support Films: "Man On Call" (Fox, 1930) with Edmond Lowe | ||||||
| Stage: - no detail - | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
| Program No. 124 - August 15-21, 1931 | ||||||
| Feature Film: "Shipmates" (MGM, 1930) with Robert Montgomery | ||||||
| Support Films: "Laugh and Get Rich" (Radio Pictures, 1930), with Edna May Oliver | ||||||
| Stage: - "The Toymaker of Nurenberg" (Dudley Glass) | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
| Program No. 125 - August 22-28 , 1931 | ||||||
| Feature Film: "The Seas Beneath" (Fox, 1930) with George O'Brien | ||||||
| Support Films: "It's a Wise Child" (MGM, 1930) with Marion Davies | ||||||
| Stage: - -no detail- | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
| Program No. 126 - August 29 - September 4, 1931 |
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| Feature Film: "The Yankee at King Arthur's Court" (Fox, | ||||||
| 1930), with Will Rogers and Maureen O'Sullivan | ||||||
| Support Films: "Oh! What a Man" (Fox., 1930) with Jeanette MacDonald (pictured right) and Reginald Denny | ||||||
| Stage: - "Les Sylphides", ballet arranged by Jennie Brenan | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
| Program No. 127 - September 5 -11, 1931 | ||||||
| Feature Film: "Daybreak" (MGM 1930) with Ramon Navarro, Helen Chandler, Jean Hersholt and Clyde Cook | ||||||
| Support Films: "Not Exactly Gentlemen" (Fox, 1931) with Victor McLaglen and Fay Wray | ||||||
| Stage: - no detail - | ||||||
| Orchestra: Will Cade conducting | ||||||
| Organ: Eddie Fitch | ||||||
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| Stan Foley |
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| Ernest C.Rolls |
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Ernest C. Rolls, an entrepreneur with a chequered history of expensive productions, bankruptcy, a prison sentence for voyeurism and court appearances for tax evasion engineered a takeover of J.C. Williamson Theatres in 1938. In 1938 the combined shares of Arthur Allen and Sir George Tallis, representing a controlling interest in JCW, were sold to Sir John McKenzie, a former Victorian who had established a successful chain of stores in New Zealand. In selling his shares, Sir George Tallis and Arthur Allen had stipulated that Rolls was to be a managing director and principal partner. Under the new ownership, a second company - Australian and New Zealand Theatres Ltd - was formed to run the theatres, leaving J. C. Williamson Ltd to act solely as a property and investment company. Under Rolls' lavish plans and productions, the Australian and New Zealand Theatres Ltd lost 100,000 pounds in the first year. Rolls departed for London, never to return, the ANZ name disappeared from company's stationery and publications, and the Taits set about rescuing the firm from its decline. |
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