CITY THEATRES

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25554, 23 July 1948, Page 9

CITY THEATRES

PROGRAMMES AT A GLANCE Avon: "An Ideal Husband’’ (Technicolour adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s comedy, featuring Michael wilding, Paulette Goddard and Diana WynyaMayfair: “The End of the River” (adventure in Brazil with Sabu, Bibi Terreira and Edmond Knight); G.B.D. News; Viking Trial, “magic carpet” series; “So This is London,” Travelogue; and “Muscle Maulers'," sports snort. , State: “Sitting Pretty” (humour, with Clifton Webb baby-sitting, and Maureen O’Hara. Robert Young, and Richard Haydn). Plaza: “This Happy Breed” (the first of six films selected for the Christchurch Film Society’s festival, this is Noel Coward’s war-time drama in Technicolour). ■ Majestic: “If Winter Comes (A. S. M. Hutchinson’s story of rural England, with Walter Pidgeon and Deborah Kerr). Empire (Papanui): “Incendiary Blonde” (tuneful Western with Betty Hutton, Arturo de Cordova and Barry Fitzgerald); “Something in the Wind” (melody, romance and comedy with Deanna Durbin, Donald O’Connor and Charles Winninger); latest Warner Pathe News: latest New Zealand Rest. James’: Ballet Rambert (first programme finishes to-day, second programme, including “Swan Lake,” “Lady into Fox,” “Death and the Maiden.” and “Bar aux Folies-Ber-gere,” starts to-morrow). Crystal Palace: “Tycoon" (romantic drama in Technicolour, starring Laraine Day, John Wayne and Sir Cedric Hardwicke): Pathe Airmail News.

Liberty: “Dark Passage” (Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall involved in a mystery-thriller); "Murder in the Big House” (thriller).