ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 223, 28 June 1940, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

I ST. JAMES THEATRE. . f ' With to-night’s screening is the last of the justly-famed 3-star programmethe final bracket comprising the last chapter of . “The Lone Ranger Rides Again,” while the thrills, romances, sorrows, and joys of those intrepid girls who have made aviation their career are graphically related in “Women in the Wind,” the Warner Bros, picture featuring Kay Francis and William C'argan. Columbia’s “Blind Alley,” with Chester Morns, Ralph Bellamy and Ann Dvorak heading the brilliant cast, is one of the most unusual dramas of suspense-laden thrills the screen has ever dared to reveal!

Screening and voting in the District Baby Contest will also he held. Paramount’s “Gulliver’s Travels,” is a spectacular Technicolou treatment of Jonathan Swift’s classic of classics, bought to vivid life by the magic pen of Max Fleischer and his two hundred assistants and scheduled for its first local showing at the matinee to-mor-row. With eight new songs and breathtaking colour added as extra attractions, 0 “Gulliver’s Travels” hews close to the line of Dean Swift’s immortal story of the English seaman who got shipwrecked on the shore of a land no one had ever visited before, a country of peanut-sized people, the tallest of" whom measured no higher than “Gulliver’s” boot. All the elements of romance, fantasy and humour that made Swift’s yarn live through the centuries have been _ painstakingly transferred to the screen, including the biting satire on politics, international relations and human institutions.