CURRENT ENTERTAINMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 12

CURRENT ENTERTAINMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE. By rights, a report ot "Gone with the Wind," which is showing at iht Majestic Theatre, should be merely the statement: The greatest picture ever made—in every detail, "Gone With the Wind" is the most taithful ilinisation of a novel the screen ha:evei attempted It contains undoubt •dl.y the most beautiful technicoloui photography conceivable. Clark Gable is naturally a oertect Rhett Butler Vivien Leigh is wholly Scarlett Leslie do warn i:- outstandn.e. and Olivia de Hsvilland surpasses anything she's jvc; done. KEGEiMi rHEATKE. Margaret Sullavan and Charles Liovpi head the casi ol 'Back Street , at the Regent Theatre. Miss Sullavan is cast as Ray Smith, young shop assistant in the Cincinnati of 1901) Charles Boyer is a young Danker from New York. They meet and fall in love, but fate prevents then ever marrying. He leaves for New York marries a 'society girl, and ultimately is the father of a daughter and son She refuses several offers of matrimony, and for nearly 30 years follows all over the world the man she loves. OPERA HOUSE. Once in a while a film studio turns out a comedy which has an indisputable right to be described as "different," in spite of the indiscriminate use of the word. Such a film is 'Hullabaloo,' which heads the new bill at the Opera House. The cast, head ed by Frank Morgan, and including such favourites as Billie Burke, Donald Meek, Reginald Owen, and Virginia Grey, ensures good entertainment, but with a story that is original, "Hullabaloo" reaches a high standard There is a musical side to this film. too. particularly fine being the singing ot Charles Holland, a negro tenor. The supporting items include a Fitzpatrick Traveltalk, a Pete Smith novelty, and a chapter from the life of Mary Queen of Scots. PRINCESS THEATRE. "Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever," starring Mickey Rooney, and "River's *End," starring Dennis Morgan and George Tobias. • head the bill at the Princess- Theatre. —— TIVOLI THEATRE. Douglas Fairbanks, jun., is starred in Columbia's "Angels Over Broadway." showing at the Tivoli Theatre with Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell featured "Angels Ove- Broad way' presents the star as a confident-* man. Miss Hayworth as a cafe enter tamer and Mitchell is a drunken playwright "Girls from God's Country, starring Chester Morris. Jane Wyatt and Charles Bickford, is *he second feature.

CITY AND SUBURBAN THEATRES

STATE THEATRE. Two entertaining films of widely differing character are now showing at the State Theatre, The first is "Michael Shayne, Private Detective," in which Lloyd Nolan has the title role of the wise-cracking yet likable young sleuth. The second feature, a lighthearted but cleverly constructed musical film, "Romance of the Rio Grande," stars Cesar Romero in a role in which he is perfectly at home. PLAZA THEATRE. Headed by Adolphe Menjou as clown-in-chiel, "Road Show," which us now showing at the Plaza Theatre, is a tuneful and highly-entertaining comedy of the open-air show business. Menjou, hiding his identity under a bucket hat and the name of Colonel Carrpway, meets the hero of the piece, John Hubbard, at an insane asylum, where Hubbard, playing the part of a millionaire playboy, has been forcibly detained. They escape and take refuge in a travelling show owned by a girl named Moore, played by Carole Landis Romance develops, with Menjou doing a little Cupid act. Everything goes nicely until the playboy finds himself billed as a lion-tamer, and in this in-, stance the lions do the taming Perpetually broke, the show ends up on the estate of Carraway's nephew, played 'by Charles Butterworth whose hobby is playing fire-engines, and here is staged the best sequence of the picture—a fight between two gangs of rival showrqen. with everything in, including bows and arrows. Comedienne Patsy Kelly adds to the laughs. The supporting programme is varied and interesting. PARAMOUNT THEATRE. To the long list of gallant roles which have caused a surfeit of admiration and fluttering of hearts. Erroi Flynn adds another excellent perform ance in "The Green Light," the main feature at the Paramount Theatre. The heroism ot doctors in the unending fight against disease has but recently been exploited by film producers, and "The Green Light is exceptional, both tor its technical qualities and the soundness- of the acting Flynn. as the young doctor ■ who takes the blame for a fatal operation to save an older colleague; and then wins through to success in bacteriological research, has a difficult part that tests his versatility: but he is more than equal to the task. Anita Louise and Margare' Lindsay, with Errol Flynn, form a little love triangle, and Walter Abel is well cast as Flynn's assistant. A brilliant comedy is offered by Leslie ("Pvemalion") Howard and Bette Daviin "It's Love T'm After," the second full-length feature. He is a famous Shakespearean actor and she his lead ing lady, and their off-stage complications are enormous. ST. JAMES THEATRE. George Formby is his plain, delightful self in "Call a Cop." the entertaining comedy at St. James Theatre. If his face is his fortune, it is also the very good fortune of the audience, and George, with a background of shipyards, police, and sabotage, has all the •;cope he needs for his particular and stimulating variety of fun-making. Starting with a lot. of mother as a war policeman in the Merseyside area, he tries to graduate to the anti-sabot-age flying squad, but instead find?himself thoroughly entangled with a bunch of would-be saboteurs :ntent on blowing- un H M.S. Hercules as she is launched. There are excellent supj porting features.

WELCOME DANCE CLUB.

o Tonight at the Mayfair Ballroom Cuba Street, the popular weekly danct for civilians and men of the Forces will be held by Reg. Stillwell's Wei come Dance Club, Modern and old time dancing will continue for five hours. A midnight dance will also be held on June 1.

KARORI HOME GUARD. ■»

Field exercises, in which other units will be • co-operating with the Karon unit, are to be held in the Makara area tomorrow. Karori members are to assemble at the school, where there will oe a church service before- they embus for Makara. A notice regarding the parade appears elsewhere.

CERCLE FRANCAIS

A CHARMING CONCERT

; A charming concert was arranged by Dr. A. C. Keys for the recent meeting of the French Club, in which Dr. and Mrs. Keys (pianos), Messrs. Robert Parker (piano). Desmond Lavin (violin), and J. Rogers (flute) took part. Duos from Bach, trios by Aubert and Godard, and piano solob from Chopin and Rachmaninoff combined to make a notable musical treat.

A farcical comedy, "Dans la Jungle," was produced by Dr. Keys, assisted by Miss D. Smith, Mr. Hollyman, and Dr. Carbery.

Madame Logre acted as hostess. Among the guests were the ConsulGeneral for Poland and the Countess Wodzicki. Supper was arranged by Misses Wilton and Bowditch, and conversation classes were conducted by Mesdames Arnaud and Lash. Mrs. Williams, and Messrs. Arnaud and Chamouillet.

It was announced that the sum available for the Victory Queen Carnival Fund from the performance of "Le Malade Imaginaire" amounted to £38 9s.

Y.W.C.A. OFFICERS

The election of officers for the National Y.W.C.A. of New Zealand, which took place at the closing session of the recent convention at Auckland, resulted as follows:—National president, Mrs. David Smith; national vice-presidents, Dr. Sylvia Chapman, Miss Evelyn Watson; hon. treasurer Mrs. A. H. Hoby; hon. secretary, Mrs. G. F. Northe; national board (members resident at headquarters) Dr. Sylvia Chapman, Mesdames R. J. Bird, J. S. Carmichael, R. C. Ffitch, A. H. Hoby, R. S. McInnes, T. F. Corkhill, W. H. Newell, Miss E. Watson; national board (members appointed by their local associations), Whangarei, Mesdames Tudehope and A. H. Lambley; Christchurch, Mrs. B. H. Gilmour (Lyttleton), and Miss E. Bachelor; Napier, Mrs. W. Neilson and Miss R. Malcolm; Hamilton, Mrs. E. Wallace; Palmerston North, Mesdames P. Flood and K. Dean; Dunedin, Mesdames C. M. Begg and Cyi'il Kerr; Timaru, Mesdames W. W. Garton and Gordon Pope; Wanganui, Misses M. Newman and M. S. Tuffin; New Plymouth, Mesdames Shrimpton and Horsfall; Wellington, Misses M. Chappell and M. L. Toulson; Auckland, Miss D. Dempsey and Mrs. R. B. Wilson; World's Council Members, Mrs. M. Rudd, Auckland, representing the North Island; Miss Francis Ross, Dunedin, representing the South Island.