ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 171, 16 April 1942, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

Opera House. —“Adam Had Four Sons” ends its season a the Opera House tomorrow.

Judy Garland, perhaps the most popular youthful swing vocalist on the screen and radio today, stars with Allan Jones in "Everybody Sing.” This'film was most popular when it was first shown in Wellington, and there seems little reason why is popularity should have waned since that time. Many of the tunes have since become established favourites.

Majestic Theatre.— Any film starring Clark Gable is sure of public support, and any good film starring Clark Gable, such as “Honky Tonk,” causes no surprise when it has a run as long as "Honky Tonk’s” has been.

Opening tomorrow is a bright comedy starring Joan Crawford, Bober Taylor, Greer Garson and Herbert Marshall. It’s title is “When Ladies Meet,” and if the events depicted really do occur when ladies meet then the peace-loving male may thank the powers that be that he is not present.

Plaza Theatre. — “Here Conies Mr. Jordan” finishes its long season at the Plaza Theatre today.

Opening tomorrow is a remake film version of Ibanez’s famous novel of the bullring. “Blood and Sand.” Sound and technicolour give this new version a splendour which the Rudolf Valentino version could not hope to achieve, and the film is a great vehicle for its three stars, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell and Rita Hayworth.

St. James Theatre.—lf any film star has a right to play the leading part in a film which is almost a history of modern music, it is Bing Crosby, and he claims that right in “Birth of the Blues,” which opens its Wellington season at the St. James Theatre today. With Mary Martin and Jack Teagarden and his band to help, Bing out in the music, and Rochester to help him in the comedy, the picture fulfils the promise of its subject matter

King's Theatre.—No one is likely to forget the terrible scene in "The Little Foxes,” where Bette Davis's husband, played by Herbert Marshall, stricken with a heart attack, calls for relief while his wife is, mute as stone, watching a falling, fainting shadow feel its way up the stairway wall. Or the final moment when her daughter walks out into the night with the man she loves.

Regent Theatre.—"Pimpernel Smith" is the story of a mild Cambridge don who goes to Germany hunting for evidence of an Aryan civilization, but actually he is rescuing artists and scientists and men of letters from Nazi, barbarism. The story is told so deftly that it becomes one of the most exciting comedies of the year.

Tudor Theatre.—Having encountered erime in most parts of the world, Charlie Chan now encounters it in South America in “Charlie Chan in Rio." As is customary, Sidney Toler plays Charlie Chan. The associate feature is "The Last of the Duanes.”

State Theatre.—Another Ellery Queen mystery, with Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay in their usual starring parts, is "The Perfect Crime.” There is plenty of rhumba and rhythm in "Two Latins From Manhattan," the . second feature.