ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 108, 31 January 1941, Page 12

ENTERTAINMENTS

Regent Theatre. — In "The Sea Hawk, ’ Errol Flynn’s newest assignment to emeimiiie adventure, lie is seen as the daring captain of a buccaneer ship. This lilm is a thrilling saga of the seven seas, with Flynn as Geoffrey Thorpe, most feared of the privateers of Queen Elizabeth’s day. In order to swell the treasury of their country and sari their own lust for adventure, Thorpe and other “sea hawks” of the day would sail the seas, hunting for enemy ships to loot and plunder. Thorpe is secretly favoured by the Queen, but he has a relentless enemy in the chancellor of the court, who is in league with the Queen's foreign enemies. The final duel between the two provides a thrilling climax. St. James Theatre. —A ■•Western film of the most modern type will be seen at the St. James Theatre today, when "Texas Rangers Ride Again” will begin a season. It is a story of mechanized warfare on the ranges, with the Texans battling for their rights against modern rustlers. The cast includes John Howard. Ellen Drew. Akim Tamiroff, Alay Robson, Charley Grapewin and Anthony Quinn. .The first half of the programme will be a Sportlight, •■Hunting ’Thrills” ;. a pictorial novelty; a cartoon, “Springtime in the Rockage”; a musical featurette, ".Alagic ou Broadway” ; and newsreels. State Theatre. —"International Crime” is an exciting comedy-thriller with Rod La Rocque at his best as a newspaper crime specialist. Astrid Allwyn plays the part of his nitwitted but eventually successful assistant with vivacity and humour. William Frawley. Thomas Jackson, Oscar O’Shea and others supply a good all-round supporting cast. The second film, “The Rangers’ Round-Up,” is Stan Laurel’s first essay at production and has an attractive new AVestern singing star in Fred Scott, whose baritone voice is heard to great advantage in some new and catchy tunes. Scott, who is a star of the New York Metropolitan Opera Company, is in a class of his own among singing cowboy songs, and it is a treat to hear him. King's Theatre. —Adventures in the colourful life of a young Irish girl struggling for recognition and fame as a dancer form the basis of “Dance, Girl, Dance,” spectacular romantic drama ot backstage life, starring Maureen O’Hara, Louis Hayward, and Lucille Ball, which will open" today at the King's. Vicki Baum wrote the story. _ Miss O’Hara is cast as the dancer, Miss Ball plays a gold-digging chorine, and Hayward portrays a Avealthy playboy who falls in love with Maureen, marries Lucille while on a spree, and then bounces back to his divorced wife, played by Virginia Field. Replete with lilting music and dances, this production presents a lavish ballet number featuring Maureen O'Hara, and two song-aml-dance offerings bv Lucille Ball to the music of “Mother AVhat Do I Do Now?” and “Jitterbug Bite.” Majestic Theatre. —'file timely production "Night Train to Munich” co-stars Margaret Lockwood ami Re? Harrison, with I’aul von Hernried heading the supporting cast. This is not a propaganda picture, but a thrill-packed romantic drama, punctuated with refreshing humour. The tale concerns the adi futures of a Czech refugee (Janies Harcourt) and his daughter (Margaret Lockwood), who try to escape from the larrencli’iiiß persecution of the Gestapo. Several of the devastating political events et recent months are re-enacted as part ol the story with utmost realism. Plaza Theatre. —Exciting entertainment is promised patrons ot. the Pinza Theatre when “The Mark of Zorro, starring Tyrone Power in the famous ami colourtul title role with lovely Linda Darnell R' a " tured opposite him, opens today. me story revolves round the adventures ot a masked night-riding bandit whose sword mark—a jagged “Z”—-struck terror t 0 every heart in Old California s most exciting days, but. whose daring Avon mm the loveliest senorita in the land. Action is the keynote of a thrilling duel to the death climaxes the adventures ot the masked marauder. Others, featured m the suuporting cast, which is headed by Linda Darnell and Basil Rathbone, are Gale Sondergaard, Eugene I’allette. J. Edward Bromberg, Montagu Love, Janet Beecher, Robert Lowery, and Chris-I in Martin. De Luxe Theatre. —With the five ‘‘Dead End” Kids and the “Little Tough Guys sharing honours with Nan Grey, and an excellent supporting cast. “You re Not So Tough.” will open today at the De Luxe They are seen as migrant workers folloAvins California’s crops, but prefering to live by their wits rather than by the sweat of their brows. Nan Grey is a “dust-bowl” refugee with whom one ot them falls in love. “Hopalong” Cassidy rides again in the “Three Men From Toxas,” which will be the second feature. It deals with the notorious land-grabbing days when a man’s home was his only so long as he was able to keep shooting for it. Tudor Theatre.—Does any woman ever really know the man she loves? That is the question propoundd in “The Man J Married,” which has been transferred to the Tudor Theatre. The picture stars Joan Bennett, as the art critic on New York’s smartness magazine, and Francis Lederer as the man she learns- to fear. Also starred are Lloyd Nolan and Anna Sten. A beautiful girl’s amazing experience with the husband she found out too late are revealed. After they leave witli their child for a vacation in the husband’s native laud, he falls under the influence of the “other woman,” portrayed by Anna An imposing east includes Otto Kruger, Maria Ouspenskaya, Johnny Russell and Ludwig Stossel. Joan Bennett, member of the “royal family” of Benneit, famous in theatrical and motion picture cricles for two generations, gives one of her most powerful portrayals. « Liberal laughs are brought to the programme iu the associate feature, “The Bride Wore Crutches.” Opera House. — “Convoy,” though it is a fiction film, is based on day by day happenings of the war at sea. It serves the double purpose of bringing home to landlubbers the fact that their safety depends in large measure on the courage of the men at sea, and of providing magnificent entertainment. The love interest is woven neatly in and out ot the story till the happy ending, but never does it more than add a touch of domestic tension to the main theme of the Navy men and their colleagues of the Mercantile Marine. SUBURBAN THEATRES Ascot (Newtown).— “Strange Cargo,” Clark Gable and Joan Crawford; “The Flying Irishman,” Douglas Corrigan. Empire (Island Bay).—"lrene,” Anna Neagle and Ray Milland; “Danger on Wheels,” Richad Arlen and Andy Devine, Tivoli (Thorndon). —“Foreign Correspondent,” Joel McCrea, George Sanders, Edward Gwenn and Herbert Marshall. Kincnui (Kilbirnie) —"Gunner George,’’ George Formby; “The Flying Deuces,” Laurel and Hardy. Rivoli (Newtown). —“Virginia City,” Errol Flynn and Miriam Hopkins; "Blondie Has Servant Trouble,” the Bumstead Family. Vogue (Brooklyn).— Johnny Apollo, Tyrone I’oiver an_d Dorothy Ltunour; “The Night of Nights,” Roland Young and Olympe I’radna. Capitol (Miramar). —“Edison the Man,” Spencer Tracy; “ If I Had Aly Way,” Bing Crosby and Gloria Jean. Regal (Karori). —"Listen, Darling,” Judy Garland and Walter I’idgeon; “The Lone AV oil’ Meets a Lady.” King George (Lower Hutt). —“The Great Victor Herbert,” Mary Martin and Allan Jones. De Luxe (Lower Hutt). — “Isle of Destiny,” William Gargan and Wallace Ford; “Broadway Musketeers,” Ann Sheridan and Margaret Lindsay. Prince Edward (Woburn). —"The Alan From Dakota,” Wallace Beery and John Howard; “Isle of Destiny,” AVilliam Gargan and Wallace Ford.