AMUSEMENT GUIDE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 254, 27 October 1938, Page 4

AMUSEMENT GUIDE.

* PICTURE THEATRES. CIVIC—Mice Faye and Don Ameche In "Alexander's Ragtime Band." * MAJESTIC—Joan Bennett and Randolph Srott In "The Texans." ST. JAMES'—Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Mac Donald In "The Girl or the Golden West." EMBASSY—BetIe Davis and Henry Fonda in "That Certain Woman." MAYFAIR—Jane Withers In "Rascals." STRAND—Oracle Fields in "We're Going to Be Rich" and Nova Pilbeam in "Young and Innocent." ROXY—Barton Macl.ane and Glenda Farrell in "Prison Break" and Piclc Purcell and John Litel in "Missing- Witness." REGENT—George Wallace In "Let George Do It." LONDON — Margaret Sulla van in "The Moon's Our Home" and William Gargan in "Blackmailer." ADELPHI—Guest Night. ALEXANDRA—"Sabotage." AMBASSADOR—"Hawaii Calls." ASTOR—"I Met Him in Parts." AVONDALE—"I See Ice." BERKELEY (Mission Bay)—" Mad About Music." BRITANNIA—"Make a Wish" and "Partners of the Plains." I CAPITOL—"Portia On Trial" and "Charlie' Chan on Broadway." CRYSTAL PALACE—' Irene and Mary" and "Kate Plus 10." DE LUXE —"The Adventures or Tom Sawyer" and "Command Perrormance." EMPRESS—Guest Night. GAIETY—"I'II Take Romance." I GREY LYNN—"l.et's Make a Night or It" and "Devil Is Driving." I KINGSLAND — "Rebecca or Sunnybrook Farm" and "The Bad Man or Brimstone." PEERLESS—"Between Two Women." PRINCE EDWARD—Guest Night. PRINCESS—Guest Night. REGAL—r.uest Night. REGENT (Epsom)—"in Old Chicago.'' j RIALTO—"SaIIy. Irene . and Mary" and "Kate Plus 10." STAR (Newton) —"It Happened Onp Night" and "Pennies From Heaven." STATE (Devonport)—"One Wild Night'' and "Border G Men." STATE (Symonds Street)—" Test Pilot." STATE (Onehunga)— "Kentucky Moonshine" and "Prairie Thunder." STRAND (Onehunga)—Guest Night. TlVOLl—"Prison Break" and "Missing \\ ltness." TUDOR—-"Thin Ice." VICTORIA—Gu«st Nigfet.

MAYFAIR. Facing a weird wttderness of mystic temples and nameless terrors, the fantog, "Saturday Evening Post"' master of tery, Mr. Moto, in the person of Peter Loire, meets his most sensational screen adventure to date in "Mr. Moto Takes Chance," which opens at the Mavfair Theatre to-morrow. The amazing 'jjT .Moto, mild-mannered, nimble-witted det«> tive and jiu-jitsu expert, comes up again*? something unusual in the way of perils h, this film, which is set against the back ground of the primitive Indo-Chinem! jungle, and hypnotism, sorcerv, burnin? oil, and machine guns figure prominently in the action. Roc-helle Hudson and Robert Kent provide the romantic interest in between their attempts to aid the wi]v little Nipponese sleuth in his investigations or" an alleged native rising, while J Edward Brombcig. Chick Chandler, and IS have important parts also V I lie Man, ' 1.11 the sen,, programme' teatui cs Judv Ciuiin, Ed *;n Styles, and Fi auk Allen by in a thrilling storv' tW deals wth the ctloits ui a voung man. imprisoned lor the crime of another, to track down the forger who was responsible for his sentence. STRAND. Jungle adventure of an unusual type ig portrayed in "Her Jungle Love." the spectacular toihnicolnur production which begins a return Auckland season at the Strand Theatre to-morrow. Exotic Dorothy Lamour heads the featured cast with Rav Milland. while Lynne Overman. .J. Carrol Naish. and "Jiggs." a chimpanzee, also have important roles. In the development of the plot. Bob and Jimmy I Milland and Oveimanl. a c<iuplc of aviators seeking a Ins- i nut; ade. are foived down on a junjzle is'and. There they meet Tura 'Dorothy Lamour i. a native mail and sole inhabitant. who resembles a sort of female Tai/.au. She and Bdi tall in love. Subsequently Kuasa. an educated native chief, shows lift with the lost flyer all wrapped up and ready to be fed to the sacred crocodiles, amid ceremonies employing the hypnotised Tura. The feeding comes off as planned, and the picture goes on to show how Tula herself, now established as white, narrowly escapes the same fate, to marrv the handsome Bob. While the all-round acting by the human performers is good, it is Jigi. r s. the chimpanzee, who, as "Gaga,"' steals the show.