ENTERTAINMENTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 18, 1 November 1940, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

ST. JAMES THEATRE. r Screening finally to-night is an enjoyable double star programme. “Marshal of Mesa City” will certainly find appeal with action lovers. It is a better-type western filled with genuine action, of the fast riding-shooting-fight-ing kind, and full of punch. The picture has much more plot than usual, and some good acting. George O’Brien is starred. In the associate feature Kay Kyser, one of the foremost band leaders in America, whose radio programme “The College of Musical Knowledge,” ranks among the. best sixty-minute broadcasts on the air, makes his film debut in RKO Radio’s “That’s Right —You’re Wrong,” co-starred with Adolphe Menjou. Such noted players as May Robson, Lucille Ball, Dennis O’Keefe, Edward Everett Horton, Roscoe Karns and Moroni Olsen, plus Kyser’s own radio artists.

Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone and the rest of the famous Hardy family, a family who have established themselves in our hearts, as the most human, interesting and happy bunch anybody ever had, will be at the St. James, opening at the matinee in “Judge Hardy and Son,” the eighth all new adventures of'the group. The story deals with Andy Hardy’s comical adventures as an amateur detective, through which he is involved with three pretty girls and gets into various comical complications. There is drama in the illness of the mother of the family who is near death, a thrill in Andy’s piloting his sister across a flooded river to her mother’s bedside, and several dramatic highlights. Stone, Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Sara Haden and Ann Rutherford, the “regular” cast of the series, are augmented in “Judge Hardy and Son” by three new charmers, June Preissef, Martha O’Driscoll and Margaret Early.

RED CROSS PATRIOTIC EFFORT In aid of the Borough fund for the big patriotic appeal the combined Red Cross sub-centres of the town will provide an entertainment in the Domain to-morrow afternoon. Displays of folk dancing and barefoot dancing will be given, and a number of other novelties including boating on''the lake and pony riding are on the programme. The Ashburton Silver Band will be in attendance.