CURRENT FILMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 272, 29 August 1946, Page 2

CURRENT FILMS

ST. J-AMES THEATRE A splendid double bill opens at the St. James to-night, and will be repeated to-morrow night. The main feature is “Demobbed,” which stars Norman Evans, Nat Jackley, Betty Jumel and Dan Young. Classed as one of the funniest comedies ever produced, “Demobbed” tells of hilarious misadventures of four crazy privates discharged from the Army fiful directed to employment as factory packers. There is not a dull moment, and the public will have the pleasure of seeing also a great number of stars of the English stage. Thousands have heard Webster Booth and Annie Ziegler over the air, and in “Demobbed” they present a spectacular sequence entitled “The Garden of Romance,” which is a most polished presentation. For months paper headlines were full of the great battle waged by the underground in many of the conquered and Nazi-occupied territories. Now Columbia has taken a leaf from the notebook of world events and brings “The Black Parachute” to the screen. It has been acclaimed by preview audiences as one of the most exciting headline stories yet to come out of Hollywood. Telling the adventures j of a Yank news correspondent (Larry j Parks) who parachutes into the thick of a group of Balkan mountaineers struggling to free their captured King (Jonathan Hale) from Die Nazi invaders, it is said to outdo those headlines themselves in timeliness and interest. The serial commences at 7.30. I