ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 124, 7 March 1941, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. • A broad: comedy and. an .action/thriller conbine to present grand fare iti this week’s two-star bill screening finally to-night. “The Ghost Comes Home” is good broad comedy, with Frank Morgan and Billie Burke leading a strong cast. Mystery, thrills and adventure highlight “Outside the 3-Mile Limit,” starring Jack Holt. “Swanee River,” opening at the matinee to-morrow, is colourful entertainment worthy of the unforgettable music of Stephen C. Foster. Filmed in technieolour and starring Don Aineche and Andrea Leeds, “Swanee River” recalls those colourful, romantic days of minstrels and rivet; boats; the nostalgic touches are an added attraction to this picture that has everything else. Audiences will leave the theatre with ears ringing with the melodies that are sung in all quarters of the globe—songs that have left an indelible memory—“ The Old Folks at Home” (Swanee River), “Old Black Joe,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” “De Camptown Races,” “Jennie with, the Light Brown Hair,” “Ring, Ring do Banjo” and “Oh! Susanna!” ' The life of Stephen Foster is made for the screen, with every element that moviegoers have demanded in their entertainments. iD'on Amecho plays Foster just as lie was—sweet and tender, headstrong, inspired and emotionally unstable. As Jane, Andrea Leeds is a proper inspiration for some of our greatest music. A 1 Jolson puts over the role of Christy, the blackface minstrel man with a humour and vigour unparalleled in his long career. An excellent first-half includes “The Capture of Bardin.” Here the Department. of Information’s official A.I.F. photographic unit secures for the world another scoop in remarkable and vivid pictures of events leading up to and the final capture of Bardia, the Italian stronghold in Libya.