HOLIDAY PROGRAMME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 192, 16 August 1939, Page 4

HOLIDAY PROGRAMME.

ATTRACTIONS AT CIVIC. An ideal holiday programme i 6 pre* sen ted at the Civic Theatre, commencing on Friday. The darling of the screen, phirley Temple, plays the title role in "The Little Princess," the famous classic written by Fiances Hodgson Burnett. When filmgoers see this picture they will be seeing a film in which they actually had a part in bringing to the screen. For it was the moviegoers throughout the world that recently elected Shirley Temple the screen's Xo. 1 star for the fourth consecutive time, and it was in celebration of this unprecented event that Darryl F. Zanuck and Twentieth Century-Fox set out to achieve their greatest success yet. The two top-line supporting players with. Shirley are Anita Louise and Richard Greene. Xot only a delightful story from the pen of the writer of '"Little Lord Fauntleroy," the film is further beautified by its production in technicolour. The tale tells how a rich little girl becomes a slavey and of her many adventures, inclurlirie a ■ meeting with Queen Victoria. Shirley reveals all her charm and radiance in what j is easily her finest film by far and also i one of the best pictures of the year. All ; the laughter, tears, drama and tenderness j of this great story are beautifully pre- | f?ented on the screen and an impressive cast supports the star. Other attractions at the Civic will be 4 cartoons, one a Walt Disney produc* tion and the other a Terry Toon.