ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

Hardy Family Featured At Majestic Theatre The Hardy family, led by Mickey Rooney, add further to their laurels as the screen’s most amusing and entertaining family in “Love Finds Andy Hardy,” which continues for the second week at the Majestic Theatre. In this picture Mickey Rooney, as Andy Hardy, encounters fresh difficulties when he'purchases a second-hand car without telling his father (Lewis Stone). Lewis Stone, who portrays Judge Hardy iu this film, does so with mature understanding. Andy has made a down payment of 12 dollars on the car, but needs

another, eight to complete the deal. With this as the simple, unaffected theme, the delightful flavour of a typical American family is contained in “Lore Finds Andy Hardy.” Stone, Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford and Betty Ross Clarke, important members of the Judge Hardy series, again play their original roles. But the cast is further augmented by Judy Garland, singing sensation of "Everybody Sing.” ' Featured on the same programme, and exclusive to the Majestic Theatre, is a newsreel with full details of the Boy Scout Jamboree in Australia. Other featurettes include a Pete Smith comedy, comedy cartoon and newsreels.

“The Adventures Of Robin Hood” At Regent Theatre

“The Adventures of Robin Hood,” a fechnicolour melodrama, produced by Warner 8r05.,, starring Errol Flynn, and featuring Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone, lan Hunter, and a supporting cast of some thousand players, is now showing at the Regent Theatre. Errol Flynn plays Robin ; beautiful Olivia de Havilland, Maid Marian. This version of “The Adventures of Robin Hood” is filled with ■ fighting—bows and arrows, .quarter, staffs, .pikes and broadswords being the weapons-—and is played in immense and beautiful scenery both indbors and out., All of the vast body of “Robin Hood” literature was fine-combed by the research department of Warner Bros, to find the customs 'of the people of that era, and all the other details that make for authentic movie props. A special contingent of the department worked only on medieval weapons—bows and arrows, -quarter staves, and pikes—which play a large part in the action of the picture. The original story and the screen play were devised by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller, and has several of ths well-authenticated incidents contained in most of the legends surrounding England’s greatest outlaw, but the. bulk of the story is original in form.'

“Mysterious Mr. Moto” Comes To State Theatre

Murder strikes' on a musical cue in Mr. Moto's latest case—one of the most unusual angles ever woven into the amazing sleuth’s mystery, assignments. Four times during “Mysterious Mr. Moto,” latest in the 20th, Century-Fox series, which opens today at the State Theatre, assassins, strike with terrifying suddenness and each time the same “death tune” is the signal for their lethal Meeds. “Mysterious Mr.- -Moto” features Mary Maguire, Henry Wilcoxon, Erik Rhodes and Harold Huber., .

“Variety Hour,’* the associate film, is a complete variety show, featuring some of the world’s best talent of vaudeville. Among those featured are Clapham and Dwyer, Brian Lawrence and his Lansdowne Band. Carson Robison and his Pioneers, and. the Wiere Brothers.

“Count Of Monte Cristo” Still At St. James Theatre

“The Count of Hunte Crisfo” is a story whose homantic fantasy, imaginative adventure and dramatic characterizations have enthralled millions for generations. . Nothing has'beta' spared to give the talkie version .accoutrements as: to character and setting that, bring this' great narrative to the screen.in its true .perspective. Hubert Uonat makes his American debut in this picture, which continues for an extended season at the St. James Theatre. Donat, after years of hard work, was given the starring part in this feature with Elissa L-andi, the feminine .lead. That “The Count of Monte Cristo’’ is entertainment for all, young and old, with undimmed appeal for urban and rural peoples alike, can be unequivocally proven by the universal success of the stage version of this‘fascinating Alexandre Damas fiction piece. Perhaps there is no tangible reason for the unprecedented popularity of •this great Dumas work. “The Count of Monte Cristo’.’ is .full of priceless lines, imaginative romance, strong characters, beauty of setting, sustained suspense of plot, elements of surprise, and fabulous proportions. The story leaves nothing to be desired. Donat as “The Count of Monte Cristo”, has an auspicious vehicle on which production value and time have been spent lavishly. Donat .embraces his opportunity in full measure and his name as well as the picture, takes rank along with those' productions labelled “exceptional.” Convicted without-trial and condemned without, mercy, the Count of Monte Cristo spent 20 years in a dungeon. ■He had 20 years to plot and , plan, 20 years of nerve-racking patience, and then freedom with riches and power to wreck the lives of the throe who wrecked his.

Marx Brothers In ‘Room Service’ At Plaza Theatre

Internationally famous for their.insane antics on stage and screen, the Marx Brothers are currently appearing in “Room Service,” a film version of the hilarious Broadway comedy, which comes to the Plaza Theatre today. The story of this widely acclaimed play concerns a . theatrical producer and his two slick assistants at a New York hotel. Their efforts to keep themselves and a cast of 22 actors from being dispossessed from the hotel till they can promote a financial backer for their eliow are the basis for the uproarious tomfoolery .which makes “Room .Service” the funniest Marx picture to date. Supporting the Marx Brothers are Ducille Ball, Ann Miller, Frank Albertson and six members of the original stage cast.

“Pride Of The West” Featured

At De Luxe Theatre

The frontier West in the days when its lifeline was the stage coach, which carried the mail and money of the community, forms the picturesque setting for Paramount's latest “Hopaloug Cassidy” story, “Pride of the West,” w’hich begins today at the De Luxe Theatre. The lead is played by William Boyd, with George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Charlotte Field, Karie Hodgins, Billy King and Kenneth Harlan, also cast. The second film will be “King of Alcatraz,” a story of a “crime tsar” who cracked his way out of 1 Alcatraz. Lloyd Nolan, Gail Patrick, and J. Carrol Naish play the leads. Other attractions are the singing usherette and Reg. Maddams’s Wurlitzer items.

“Snow White And The Seven

Dwarfs” At King’s

The extremely beautiful film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” is now showing at the King’s for the fourth week of its season. All Disney's pencil, brush, and paper pictures are delightful, but Snow White is very much more than a Disney cartoon. He has taken the old Grimm story of the princess, the jealous and envious (and murderous) step-mother Queen and the dwarfs and ha» made of it still a simple, but a vastly detailed story in gorgeous colours, so detailed, in fact, that one cannot appreciate at the first seeing all that was drawn in the three years it took to make. The etory, the art work, and the dialogue and music -arc

in splendid balance. The first half of the programme is an interesting selection of bright and varied shorts.

Comedy And “Algiers” Showing

At Tudor Theatre

Hal Roach’s gay comedy romance, “There Goes My Heart,” featuring Ifredric March and Virginia Bruce, has been transferred to the Tudor Theatre for an extension of its Wellington season. The story casts Virginia as a madcap heiress who tries to run out on her fortune, ami March as a rejwrter who tries to run out on his boss. Virginia gives up her yacht for a job in a bargain basement and finds a new world full of apartments, kindhearted sales-girls and eeeentrie motoimen. Then into her life roams the roving reporter and the pair have plenty of fun visiting skating rinks, riding in'the subway and falling in love. Bractically the entire action of "Al giers,” starring Charles Boyer and. Hedy Lamarr, the associate feature, lakes place in “The Casbah,” mysterious native quarter of the capital of Algeria. As the story opens, Boyer and his gang, fugitives from Baris, who have lived in the Casbah for two years, never venture outside its boundaries for fear of arrest. In the district they are safe from the police in the adjoining French city, who dare not molest them because of the ferocity of the natives. The only hope of the ollicials is that some time they may lure the jewel thief outside the Casbah and thus bring about his capture.