CITY THEATRES

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25796, 6 May 1949, Page 9

CITY THEATRES

PROGRAMMES AT A GLANCE Crystal Palace: “Tarzan and the Mermaids” (adventure with Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Linda Christian, and “Cheeta”). Liberty: “Melody Time” (a Walt Disney musical) and “Wild Horse Mesa” (western with Tim Holt and Nan Leslie). Mayfair: “The Winslow Boy” (varied, starring Robert Donat. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, and Kathleen Harrison)’; news includes “Sharpley’s Sensational Exposure of Communism.” Empire (Papanui): “That Hagen Girl” (drama with Ronald Reagan and Shirley Temple) and “California” (thriller in Technicolour with Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, and Barry Fitzgerald). Regent: “Whispering Smith” (adventure ?in Technicolour with Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall, end Donald Crisp). State: “Road House” (varied, with Cornel Wild?, Ida Lupino, Celeste Holm, and Richard Widmark). Plaza: “Bill and Coo” (varied, in Tricolour) and “Man From Oklahoma” (western with Roy Rogers). Evening sessions only, “The Royal Tour of South Africa.” Avon: “The Red Shoes” (musical in Technicolour with Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook. and Leonide Massine). Radiant: “Exercise Bowler” (a Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society production of T. Atkinson’s play). St. James: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (Walt Disney’s comedy in Technicolour). Tivoli: “Alice in Wonderland” (screen version of Lewis Carroll’s story with Cary Grant, Edna May Oliver, Gary Cooper, and Edward Everett Horton) and “Beyond the Blue Horizon” (adventure with Dorothy Lamour and Richard Denning).

Theatre Royal: “Pittsburgh” (adventure with Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, and John Wayne) and “Twilight cn the Prairie” (comedy western with Leon Errol and Johnny Downs).

Majestic: “Hills of Home” (varied, in Technicoloui, with Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, and “Lassie”).

Grand: “Pardon Us” (comedy, with. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy) and “Hopalong Rides Again” (western with William Bovd. Russell Hayden, and Gdorge “Gabby” Hayes). Century: “Valley of Decision” (drama, with Greer Garson and Gregory Peck).

Rex (Riccarton): “Dark Passage” (drama, with Humphrey Bogart and Laureen Bacall) and “Theatre Royal” (comedy, with Flanagan and Allen).