ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 23, 7 November 1940, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. This week's double-feature programme, showing to-night and on Friday at 2 and 7.45 p.m., combines gay comedy in one feature and daring adventure in the other. “Harci to Get.” the comedy is not hard to take. With Dick Powell and Olivia de Havilland—teamed for the first time—supplying a somewhat hectic romantic interest and more than a fair share of the comedy, and such other comedy experts as Charles Wirininger, Allen Jenkins, Bonita Granville, Melville Cooper, Isabel Jeans and Penny Singleton outdoing each other in the pursuit of laughs, the film emerges as one of the funniest comedies in months. Interpolated into the plot are two numbers sung by Dick Powell “lou Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby” and “There’s a Sunny Side to Every Situation.” Such ingredients as excitement, love and adventure are combined in the production of “Green Hell,” the associate feature. With Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Joan Bennett heading an outstanding cast of 11 principals, “Green Hell” is declared to capture a realism seldom brought to the screen in films of this typo. The plot deals with seven men and one girl who brave the perilous jungles of South America in search of treasure and adventure until jealousy flares within their ranks, savage head-hunters trap them, and after heroic adventure a strange romance develops and all winds up satisfactorily.