ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 127, 22 February 1939, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

“'rhe Boy From Barnardo’s” At Regent Theatre Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney are teamed in a dramatic story of the trailing of boys for the Brit inn mercantile marine. "The Boy iroin nardo's,” which will end at the Regent Theatre today. The action takes place in the surroundings ol tie Russell Cotes Nautical School, one of the 120-odd institutions operated in England bv the Bernardo Homes, winch tram orphans for varied calling*. The film tells a story of boyish loyalties ant .resgeneisition against a background of this liulisn school. v Itichanl (Junior) Pharrell, young acw Zealand pianist, continues to delight audi ences by playing at a piano on the theatre stage selections from bis, repertoire, wlneli incdude his own compositions. "Holiday.” . Willi Cary Grant and Katharine Hep burn co-starred, "Holiday'’ vibrates with life. This film, which will begin a season at the Regent Theatre tomorrow, has been made from the Philip Barry [day which wus so successful on Broadway. ’’Holiday'' is packed with humour, and its situations are the normal ones o> reality and not the insane jocularities ot (lie recent crop of comedies. "Holiday presents a rebellious socialite who knows a real man when she sees one and a young man who insists upon doing his own groping fin life's "grab-bag lather than marry a wealthy girl. The problems of "Holiday" are very real to the film's characters, with humour and honesty. in a grandeur of setting which emphasizes the dilemmas of the two rebels. Story Of Farmers v. Miners At St. James Theatre 'Flic story of a dispute between taj’iuer.s and minors in California in (he 1870 s is told in “Gold is Where You Find It which is at the St. James Theatre. I he hydraulic miners use tremendously [inweiful streams of water which ripped away hillsides; from this debris was sifted the ore. However, the debris overflowed upon the lands of the wheat-growers and orchardists and warfare resulted —a coiinict that was prolonged and deadly. The fight extended over a number of years, nearly split the State of California in two. and was not settled till a court decision de-

dared in lavimr <if the ngricnlturids and made the hydraulic interests quit. Supporting Brent and Miss de Havi - land are Claude Rains, Margaret Lindsay John Intel. Marcia Ralston, Barton AliicLane. Tim Holl (young son of Hie famous Jack), Sidney Toler lp"'y O'Neill. Willie Best. Robert Mc)\ ade. and Harry Davenport, as well as many others. Film At Majestic Stars Clark Gallic And Myrna Loy Clark Gable and Myrna Imv are eo-star-i-ed ip "'roo Hot to Handle." which IS showing at the Mjacstie Theatre for two more days. Gable and Walter Pidgeon [day rival newsreelmen covering lighting in the Orient. They dash when Miss Loy, as the aviatrix, attempts a "mercy Hight'’ with .serum, and Gable, barred from the field, reaches her plane in an ambulance but wrecks the plane. "Young Dr. Kildare." "Young Dr. Kildare” is the s'tory of a young medical student, played by Lew Ayres, who sacrifices love and a place of com[>arative security beside his country doctor father to achieve something great for humanity. As an interne in the general hospital of a big city, his independent thinking is [he reason for his dismissal from the staff, but wins him the admiration of Gillespie, a great diagnostician. Kildare returns home to find that, through Gillespie, love and a career are not incompatible. De Luxe Theatre Has “Arrest Bulldog' Drummond” A death ray figures prominently in "Arrest. Bulldog Drummond,” which is 'he chief attraction at the De Luxe Theatre. The other attraction i.s "Campus Confessioiis.”' In “Arrest Bulklog Drununonil, Drummond works some of the time with Scotland Yard and at other tinfes by himself because of his unorthodox methods. Campus Confessions’’ is woven round the building up of a university college to a high athletic standard. “Gangster's Boy.” Jaekie Cooper appears in .in exciting drama of the underworld. "Gangsters Boy.” which will begin at the De Luxe Theatre on Friday. Frank Jenks and Dorothea Kent are in Hie associate film, a mystery comedy, "Strange Faces.’’

Double-Feature Programme At State Theatre The present double-feature programme in (lie State Theatre is comprised of an "inside’’ story of life among the criminals of New York. "Gangs of New York.” and a western. "Where the West Begins, m which Jack Kandal! sings live new songs. "Exposed” and 'The Lady Objects." Willi Glenda Farrell and Otto Kruger in tin- main roles. "Exposed.’ which will lie the main feature at the Slate Theatre, beginning on I'riday. lias its setting in a new and thrilling field, the candid camera magazines. BeHer than any number ot words tliles the'picture show the importance of the new branch of journalism. It gains ihe impetus of its dramatic development from the efforts of a candid camera girl to furnish pictorial "scoops.' A dramatic account of a woman lawyer who defends her own husband against charges of murdering “the other woman," is Columbia's “The Lady Objects, which will be the second feature. Girls’ Reform School Pictured At Plaza Theatre A girls’ reform school in France and how die girls are treated at the school is the subject of “I‘rison Without Bars.” which is at the Plaza Theatre. Mme. Appel and Yvonne Chanel are in turn superintendents at the sehoqi Mme. App"l believing in punishment ns the means ol correction and Yvonne Chanel believi ,x that trust in the girls and treating them as normal human beings instead of spurned creatures, will tiring » return of sellconfidence and the knowledge that crime is not the best profession. •"Hie Mad Miss Manton.” s With Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. “The Mad Miss Manton" will begin at Hie I’bizn Theatre on Friday “Suez” Shows Al King’s Theatre "Suez," which is showing al the Kings Theatre, shows (lie amazing Ferdinand de Lesseps. who dreamed of creating t'-“ short route to the East, sought vainly by Columbus and Magellan, by tearing continent apart and joining the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. The great canal he built has become the jugular vein ot. the world. Out of choking sand, from the clutch of the raiding Bedouin, in the face of the

terrifying Sahara simoon —with blood, tears anil passion—tie Lesseps built the Suez-Canal, driven by the love of two women to realize the dream at which men scoffed. Tudor Theatre Screens “ The Lady Vanishes” 'l'he Tudor Theatre is stilt screening “The Ladv Vanis'lie-s." which is very nearly the perfect blend of excitement and fun. Once the Continental train in the story gets under way. the interest never slackens for a moment. Starring Michael Whalen. Henry Armetta. and Lynn Bari, the supporting .feature-length film is “Speed to Burn, which is about horses’ and racing.