AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13341, 19 May 1941, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT The beloved and' famous melodies that are America’s only real folk music, and the ’thrilling story of the man who wrote them, screen finally to-night at the Regent Theatre in a magnificent Technicolour motion picture, 20 th Century-Pox’s “Swanee River,” the story of Stephen C. Foster, the great American troubadour. The famous Foster, songs heard in ‘‘Swanee River” are “The Old Folks at Home’’ (Swanee River), “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Old Black Joe,” “Ring, Ring de Banjo,” “De Camptown Races,” “Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair,” “Oh! Susanna ”, “Beautiful Dreamer” and “Soiree Polka.”

TOWN HALL

In Warner Bros.’ new film “Flight Angels” which screens finally tonight at the' Town Hall Theatre, movie-goers will see a thrilling picture whose theme deals with the careers of Flight Angels (airline hostesses). The film’s all-star cast includes such popular players as Dennis Morgan, Virginia Bruce, Wayne Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Wyman and John Litel. Beautiful Evelyn Keyes has been rewarded, for her work in “The Lady in Question,’ with a featured role in Boris Karloff’s latest horror hit, “Before I Hang.” In the film, which also screens tonight at the Town Hall Theatre, Karloff nortrays a fiendish scientist,- Ty-J^iJpQlV^iss Keyes plays his daughter.