AMUSEMENTS 3 SESSIONS TODAY At 2 p.m., 5 p.'m., 8 p.m. FULL OF SPARKLE . . . AND ZEST . . AND FRESHNESS , . . AND HEARTWARMING HUMOUR . . . IN -THE PRIVATE WAR OF MAJOR BENSON" YOU'LL DISCOVER THE MOST WONDERFUL KIND OF FUN THE SCREEN HAS EVER PRESENTED! MAJESTIC The Show Place of Christchurch Direction: Kerridge-Odeon ’Phone 62-039 Plans at Service Bureau in Theatre Foyer from 10 a.m, to 9 p.m. Daily THE GRANDEST PEACE-TIME BARRAGE OF FUN EVER TO BOMBARD YOUR HEART! Universal-International Presents The Heart-warming . . . Rib-tickling . . . Sparkling Story of a Big. Tough. Terrible Army Major who was Too Tough on His Men. so They Gave Him a Military School of 300 Boys to Command! ! I . . . And Did They Make the Major Surrender? “THE PpiVATE WAR OF MAJOR BENSON” i IN COLOUR BY TECHNICOLOR Gaily Starring CHARLTON HESTON JULIE ADAMS WILLIAM DEMAREST NANA BRYANT And Introducing TIM HOVEY TIM HOVEY TIM HOVEY As "Tiger Flaherty” -V The Screen’s Newest Child Star Who’ll Steal Your Heart Away! . . . You’ll Love Him as the 6-year-old Military yCadet Who Can’t Keep in Step . . . Or Keep His Pants Up (Approved for Universal Exhibition.) OF SPECIAL INTEREST! 0 "MOLESWOF.TH STATION” N.Z. Pictorial Parade No. 44 features the Spring Round-up at the Governmentowned Molesworth Station—largest station in New Zealand and now stocked with six thousand cattle. RESERVE TODAY— For the Happiest Motion Picture in. a Long, Long Laugh Time!
If ETRO THEATRE I Colombo street, Sydenham • ’Phone 88-800 Monster Matinee 1.30 p.m. Today 7.15 p.m. Tonight 7.15 p.m. Tonight DANNY KAYE DANNY KAYE In One of the Most Hilarious Musicals Ever . . “KNOCK ON WOOD” “KNOCK ON WOOD” IF YOU LOVE TO LAUGH YOU’LL LOVE THIS TECHNICOLOR COMEDY (Approved for Universal Exhibition.) Associate Attraction: GINGER ROGERS HERBERT LOM “BEAUTIFUL STRANGES” “BEAUTIFUL STRANGER” Romance and Terror Intermingle as a Beautiful Girl Tries to Escape from the Man She Hates! (Recommended by Censor for Adults.) "BEAUTIFUL STRANGER” WILL NOT BE SCREENED AT THE MATINEE CENTURY A A .p hone 75-400 MATINEE TODAY. 2.15 p.m. > 7.45 p.m. TONIGHT 7.45 p.m. RECKLESS ADVENTURE AND BLAZING ROMANCE THE LOVE STORY OF A MAGNIFICENT ROGUE AND AN UNTAMED BEAUTY FILMED ENTIRELY IN IRELAND In Technicolor The Brilliant Young Stars of “Magnificent Obsession” ROCK HUDSON BARBARA RUSH JEFF MORROW DENIS ODEA In “GA PTAIN 1 .IGHTFI)(IT” “GAPTAIN I .IGHTFOOT” (Approved for Universal Exhibition.). ALL THE DRAMA AND EXCITEMENT OF W. R. BURNETT’S BEST-SELLER. AND ABOUNDS WITH COLOUR AND NATURAL CHARM EXCELLENT FEATURETTES Plans at Theatre Today “ EMPIRE ” )’apanui Phone 48-283 SPECIAL MATINEE TODAY. 1.30 “The Boy From Oklahoma,” 2 Cartoons, 1 Comedy, Travelogues, News Reels. Special Coloured Featurette. Interest, etc., etc'. I | , TONIGHT. MONDAY, TUESDAY. 7.20 MARJORIE MAIN (“Ma Kettle”) CHILL WILLS in “ RICOCHET ROMANCE ” Laughter and Romance is Rampant on the Range! It's One Big “Ricochet” of Fun and Music Will ROGERS Jun. Nancy OLSON “THE ROY FROM OKLAHOMA” A Delightful Homespun Story of a Nogun Sheriff who Tamed the ToughestTown of the West with a Rope and a Grin (All App. for Universal Exhibition) H| HOLLYWOOD’! hi I SUMNER ’Phone 27-402 |I ' TONIGHT, MONDAY and TUESDAY, 8 p.m. A Great Comedy . . . Even Better Than “Genevieve” CHARLES LAUGHTON JOHN MILLS BRENDA DE BANZIE “HOBSON'S CHOICE” “HOBSON'S. ’CHOICE” “HOBSON’S CHOICE” (Approved for Universal Exhibition.) PERSONALS CAR leaving for Dunedin Bowls, Monday, ‘room for 2 passengers. 'Ph 78-295. YOUNG Lady Pen Friends wanted. i».O. Box 1605. Christchurch._ DORIS: ’Will meet bus. Thursday, 12th, at place arranged.—Robku-r X 9542 WOULD Mr Daniel Exims Onion please contact Mr McKenzie. 17 White street, Taradale. near Napier, Hawke’s Bay. MIND Problems. Anxiety. Uncertainty. Doubts Solved. Psychologists, P.O. Box 21. Paoanui. SUN Glasses—All New Polaroid styles, from 17s 6d to 68s. Others from 2s fid. Iggo's (Chemists). Ltd.. 105 Cashel street. _B2H PRINTING Orders are Handled Quickly at S. E. Boanaa, Ltd. 7888
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27860, 7 January 1956, Page 1
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