AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 239, 8 October 1940, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

ROXY-TIVOLI. Heading the double-feature bill coming t° the Roxy and Tivoli Theatres to-morrow is Columbia's spy melodrama "Passport to Alcatraz," originally a timely screen play by Albert de Mond and now produced as a still more timely epy melodrama dealing with the bogus passport racket used by foreign powers to smuggle their agents into America. Jack Holt is presented as an investigator assigned to work with the Government who worms his way into the confidnce of the gang and attempts to learn who is the master nynd behind the epy ring., Cecilia Calejo and Noah Beery, jun., account for the romantic angle, while Mnxie -Bosertbloom supplies the comedy relief. Lewis D. Colline directed. Also showing is "Murder in the Air," which follows the same trend, to a large degree, as. tbe main attraction. Ronald Reagan returns ae the secret service agent assigned to uncover a ring of espionage operatives with Eddie Foy, jun., ae hie faithful companion. The story deals with an inertia, projector and of the attempts by spies to steal the plans. STATE. The first suburban screening of the -hilarious Judge Hardy and Son" at the State Theatre, Symqnde Street, continues to delight large audiences. The unusual attraction "Cavalcade of Academy Awards" , also is showing. . j

AMUSEMENT GUIDE.

CIVIC SQCAEE—Amusement Park. PICTURE THEATRES,

STRAND-=Robert Young and Helen Gilbert In Florian. CENTURY—Arthur Aske to "Charlie's BigHearted Aunt." CIVIC—Ray Milland and Patricia Morrison In "Untamed." MAJESTIC—Frank Morgan In "The Ghost Comes Home" and William Boyd in "Law of the Pampas." BOXY—Barton Mac Lane and Beverly Roberts in "I Was a Convict" and Constance Moore in "Laugh It Off." BT, 'AMEB , —Spencer Tracy and Rita Johnson In "Edison, the Man." OXFORD—AIice Faye in "Lillian Russell.' REGENT—ErroI Flynn and Miriam Hopkins in Virginia City." PLAZA—Laurel and Hardy In "Saps ot Sea." EMBASSY—George Sanders and Margaret Lindsay In "The House of the Seven Gables." ASTOB—"Double or Nothing" and. "Invisible Enemy." ALEXANDRA—Ginger Rogers and Joel McCkea In "Primrose Path." ADELPHI—"Romance In the .Dark" and "Trapped by G-men." ' AMBASSADOR—"RascaIs" and "She Asked For BERKELEY (Minion Bay)—" Yes, My Darling Daughter. , BRITANNIA^—"Four Daughters" and "The Return! of the Scarlet Pimpernel." CAPITOt-"Wlngs of the Navy" and "Scandal CRYSTAL PALACE—Irene Dunne and Chas Boyer In "When To-morrow Comes." DE JPF E ZZl An Englishman's Home" and "On Their Own. \ EMPRESS—CIosed tor reconstruction. GAIETY—"Second Fiddle." GREY LYNN—"Bulldog Drummond In Africa" and "Blossoms on Broadway." LlßEßTY—"Pygmalion." NEW ROYAL— "The Texans." PEERLESS (St. Heller's)—"He Married His Wife." PRINCE EDWARD—■■Gangs of New York" and "The Lost Jungle." , PRINCESS—"The Bis Broadcast" and "Flight Into Nowhere." | RIALTO—Irene Dunne and Chas. Boyer in "When To-morrow Comes." j ■MJAL—"Outlaws of the firlent" and "Love on j REGENT (Epsom)—" Tropic Holiday" and "Crash- ! ing Hollywood." STATE tSjmondi Street)—" Judge Hardy and J STAR—Closed lor repairs. STA Chase°Yo*rSsf );r " The Crtm ' Rto "" " nd " Go STRAND (Onehunia)—"Paid to Dance" and "This "*-eW , SB3?-" Hold ,Em - Navy " and TIVOLI—-Hollywood Hotel" and "Invisible Menace. TUDOR—"Stanley and Livingstone." VlCTOßlA—"Dangerous to Know" and "Crime . ox Dr. Hallet." RADIO PROGRAMMES. 1YA—7.51 p.m.. Yvonne Prin&mps, soprano; 8 3 "Evergreens of Jazz"; 8.16. Jack Warner K!5 edl s? : 8M ' ST(lne y Torch, organist; 8.28," "The First Great Churchill." 2VA—7.30 p.m., music by Handel; 8.0, concert by Wellington Symphony Orchestra; 10.0, music > mirth and melody. IXY—B.O p.m., programme of orchestral and vocal Items. 1ZM—7.45 p.m., "Birth of the British Nation"; 8.0, concert. «