ROAD SHOWS

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, 21 July 1943, Page 5

ROAD SHOWS

"A YANK IN THE R-A.F." .Showing at Ranfurly, To-night; Millers Flat, Thursday; Lauder; F^day. The story of Britain's gallant lighters of the sky, 20th CenturyFox's new hit, "A Yank In The RAF.". With Tyrone Power as the devil-may-care flying Yank and Betty Grable as his sweetheart, a night club entertainer in London, this first film of the R.A.F. shows tnese flyers as real men who take heroism as part of their every-djay job, and who look forward to their fun on the ground. Director Henry King used more than a thousand players, workers and special effects men when he photographed the evacuation of Dunkirk. Actual combat films from the archives of the RAF. are also used. -. John button,. Reginald Gardiner and Gladys Cooper complete the featured cast of the film, which was produced by Darryl F. Zanuclt. "THE DOCCTOR AND THE DEBUTANTE". ON CIRCUIT The "Dr Kildare" series, which in each picture has introduced a newcomer in the cast, usually thus boosting the player along the road of screen success, has more than its usual share in "The Doctor and the Debutante", newest adventure of the young doctor and his veteran preceptor. The picture marks the debut of Ann Ayars, Hollywood's newest screen beauty, brouht 'rora the concert stage and playing the feminine lead in this, he: first picture. Cast as a nurse, she was catapulted to the lead after Director Major W- S- Van Dyke II had watched her first day's work. A new romantic team is added in Robert Sterling and Jean Rogers, who play Dr Winthrop, interne, a new character in the series, and his sweetheart, a nurse. Another newcomer is Barry Nelson, former college athlete and acting find, who immediately after the Dr Kildare picture was given H the male* lead in "A Yank on the i ?Banna Road"