AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 43, 20 February 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

ROXY-TIVOLI. Even the most hardened horror fans are in for an evening of suspense to-morrow when "The Man They Could Not Hang" opens a season at toe Roxy and Tivoli Theatres. A startling drama told in sensational fashion, the weird and fascinating film fairly bristles with terror aa it unfolds a blood-curdling story of a scientist who was able to conquer death. Bona Karloff, through his performance, proves conclusively that his title of "King of Horror" is no misnomer. He is superbly cast as a kindly scientist who is tried, convicted and hanged for a murder that he did not commit. In the supporting cast are Roger Pryor, who ""t his first screen appearance in more than two years, Robert Wilcox and lovely Lorna Gray. This unusual screen play is a triumph of suspense and sustained interest. The second feature, which will also be shown at both theatres, is "The Man Who Dared" and unfolds the story of the stubborn courage of an old soldier who rescued the city from the cruel grip of terrorism and gangesters. Jane Bryan, Charley Grapewin and Henry O'Neill fill the leading roles. It is an unusual picture dealing with a family's endeavour to throw off toe yoke of the underworld. AMXnEMEMIS GUIDE. CIVIC SQUARE—Amusement Park. PM.IUHE THEATRES. OXFORD—Spencer Tracy In "Stanley and Livingstone." RSGKffT—James Carney and Pat O'Brien in "Angels with Dirty Faces." —ASSY—>Llonel Banymore to "On Borrowed Time.* PLAZA jean Arthur and James Stewart In "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.** STRAND—Geo. Wallace in "Gone to the Dogs." cnmißY—David Riven and Loretta Young In "Eternally Yours.** ClVlC—Edward G. Robinson and Ruth Hussey in "Blackmail.** ■AJESYIC—Barry K. Barnes In "Spies of the Air" and George Formby In "Br George." ROXV—Laurel and Hardy In "Plying Deuces.'* and Randolph Scott In "Twenty Thousand Hen a Year.** •Y- JAMS*—Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylor in "Lady or the' Tropics." ADALPH!—Guest Right. ALEXANDRA—"it's in the Air." ASTOR—"Last Train from Madrid" and "Stolen Heaven." AMASSADOR—Guest ltlght. M,n(ILB Y (■iaaion Day)—" White Banners." CAPIYOL—"Heart or the North.** CRYSTAL PALACE—"The Three Musketeers. DK LUXE—"Only Angels Have Wings." Go-Getter" and "Marry CAlETY—'"Naughty Marietta." OREVLYHH— Guest NlghL ÜBAA I V—"Four Girls In White" and "The Mystery of the Strange Room." PRINCE COWARD—Guest Night. PRINCESS—Guest Night. PICTURED ROME—"Devil's Playground" —"Gorilla" and "Chasing DanREOAL—Guest Night. NIALTO—"The Three Musketeers." RACE NY (Epsom)—" Grandad Rud." SYAYE (Devonport)—Guest Night. SI HAND (Onehunga)—Guest Night. STATE (Onehunga)—Guest Night. * T *Twioa•*-*> - "Thunder Glrl Downst * ,nr «»d "BlockSOUTHENN CNOSS— "Alexander Graham Bell and "I stole a Million." "East Side of Heaven.•• TIVOLI—Guest Night. VICTORIA— Guest Night. RADIO PROCNJUBMES. *YA*—B.o, "One Good Deed a Day"; 8.14. Recital by Grarie Adams East. American trumpet virtuoso: $.37. "Piccadilly on Parade"; 8.49. "Nigger Minstrels." *VA 8.0. "Cbiddingfold Suite." by Thomas Dunbill; 8.10. Walter Renberp. piano: 8.13. Myra Sawyer, soprano; 5.2?. William 'Murdoch, piano; 8.35. Nancy Estall, "cello: 8.43. William Boardinan. bass: 9.43. "Lyric Suite" (Op. 54). by Grieg. IYJL—B.O. Handel's "Water Music Suite": 8.24. "Concerto In D Minor." by Mozart; 8.56. "Israel in Erypt": 9 11. Leopold Stokowski and Philadelphia Orchestra. 1UL —7.45. "Birth or a Nation'"; 9.0. "Youtb and Beauty." Lou. Taylor.