CITY THEATRES

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25934, 14 October 1949, Page 9

CITY THEATRES

PROGRAMMES AT A GLANCE Avon: “Woman Hater” (comedy, with Stewart Granger, Edwige Feuillere. Ronald Squire, and Mary Jerrold). Plaza: “The Babe Ruth Story” (varied, with William Bendix, Charles Bickford, and Claire Trevor). Supports include: “Fashion Means Business” (March of Time). Majestic: “San Francisco” (drama, with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Jeanette McDonald). Regent: “Sorrowful Jones’’ (comedy, with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball). Tivoli: “Sidewalks of London” (comedy-drama, with Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Charles Laughton, and Gus McNaughton); and “Is Everybody Happy” (March of Time). Grand: “My Brother Talks to Horses” (comedy, with “Butch” Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Beverley Tyler, and Charlie Ruggles); and “Beauty and the Bandit” (adventure, with Gilbert Roland). State: “Johnny Belinda’’ (drama, with Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, and Agnes Moorehead). Theatre Royal: “Annie Get Your Gun” (musical comedy on the stage, with Evie Hayes and Earl Covert). Crystal Palace: “Will James’ Sand” (adventure, with Mark Stevens, Coleen Gray, Rory Calhoun, Charles Grapewin, and “Jubilee,” the wonder horse). Programme includes: Fox News, “Love’s Labour Won” (cartoon); “Desert Lights’’ (Movietone adventure); “Playtime in Scandinavia” (sports review); “There Aren't Any Accidents (New Zealand interest), and Warner Pathe News. Civic: A concert (to-morrow evening) by the world famous pianist, Alexsandr Heimann. Liberty: “The Decision of Christopher Blake” (drama, with Alexis Smith, Robert Douglas, and Cecil Kellaway); and “God is My Co-pilot” (adventure, with Dennis Morgan, Alan Hale, and Raymond Massey). St. James’: “The Talk of the Town” (romantic comedy, with Ronald Colman, Cary Grant, and Jean Arthur). Mayfair: “The Blue Lagoon’’ (romance, witih Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, and Noel Purcell). Empire (Papanui): “10th Avenue Angel” (comedy-drama, with Margaret O’Brien, Angela Lansbury, and George Murphy); and “The Red Shoes” (varied, with Anton W’albrook, Marius Goring and Moira Shearer). Radiant: “After October” (Rodney Ackland’s play, acted by the Canter- . bury Repertory Theatre Society). I Century: “All My Sons” (drama, ! with Edward G. Robinson and Burt

Lancaster): and “The Case of Mrs Conrad’’ (March of Time). Metro: “The Farmer’s Daughter’’ (comedy, with Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten): and “I Stand Accused” (drama. Fredric March and Edmond O’Brien).