ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 220, 29 June 1938, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. “Make a. Wish,” with Bobby Breen, the popular young singing star in the main role, will conclude its run at the St. James Theatre this evening. Summing up in its strikingly realistic story the lives and careers of all stage-struck girls everywhere, RICO Radio’s “Stage Door” brings Katharine Hepburn and, Ginger Rogers together for the first time, with Adolphe Menjou co-starred at the head of a brilliant cast. This picture will screen to-morrow evening and at two sessions on Friday. The picture is based on the famous stage play which ran for nearly half a year in New York, and is said to, offer the stars their finest screen opportunities to date. Most or its vividly absorbing action takes place in a theatrical hoarding-house where scores of eager and ambitious girls live and hope and sometimes perish, while they strive for fame behind the footlights. From every walk of life they come; rich and poor, sympathetic and selfish, but all motivated by one common dream of stage success. Their heart-throbs and heartbreaks are woven into the shimmering thematic pattern of the story. Two, of the girls i.n particular stand out from the others —Katharine Hepburn, a wealthy debutante who seeks a stage career against her family’s wi slues, and Ginger Rogers, a happy-go-lucky, wise-crack-ing youngster with no background and no money, but confident that she can succeed on her own.

“Lawless Riders” is the associate feature, starring Ken Maynard, the popular hero of many Western films.