CURRENT ENTERTAINMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 156, 30 December 1940, Page 3

CURRENT ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. . I "Convoy" at the Regent has beenj I extended for another week. It is rightjly described as "the picture of the ! moment," for it throws on the screen jin highly dramatic fashion the work ! that certain of the ships of the Royal Navy are doing today and every day . in the seven seas. The film was made with the collaboration of the Admiralty , and the naval scenes are inspiring in-. j deed. There is a good selection of, j supports. i MAJESTIC THEATRE. \ "The New Moon," with. Jeanette Mac Donald and Nelson Eddy, at the : Majestic Theatre, far exceeds the "New ; Moon" as known to audiences through ' stage performances or otherwise. Sea fights and shipwrecks are presented* with a realism that on the stage is im- 1 possible; and the atmosphere of the i New Orleans and Louisiana of 1789, j and of the tropic island where the sea j rovers end up, is also presented in a j manner that can only happen in a magnificently pictured musical romance, j With its reunion of two really great j musical stars, it is a picture not often to be seen and not to be missed. ST. JAMES THEATRE. The Deanna Durbin new film, "Spring j Parade," is the feature at the St. j James Theatre. The best-remem-1 bered member of the unfortunate Habsburg dynasty is resurrected to honour Deanna Durbin, < who has established a sort of cinema dynasty of her own account Not one of Deanna's recent journeyings has eclipsed in charm her junketing in Austria, which provides ample scope for both the comedy and the music that are her birthright. Robert Cummings has the part of the lover. TlVOIil THEATRE. Father against son in a vivid human I drama, "My Son is Guilty," a story that has thrilled thousands,- is being shown at the Tivoli Theatre. Bruce Cabot plays the role of the policeman's son who turns killer, and Jacqueline Wells, Harry Carey, and Wynne Gibson j have prominent roles. Also being screened is "Music in My Heart." Tony Martin is the song star, with Rita Hayworth in association. RIVOLI THEATRE. "Isle of Destiny," being shown at the Rivoli Theatre, takes a glamorous New York society girl into adventure in the South Pacific and entanglement with an unscrupulous villain engaged in gun running and incitement of revolutions. "Our Neighbours the Carters" features. Fay Bainter, Frank Craven, Edmund Lowe, and Genevieve Tobin in small-1 town life. ! OPERA HOUSE. Another of those entertaining and delightfully human pictures of the well-known Hardy family series heads j the programme at the Opera House. With Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy! dominating the doings as usual, the; same team, with the addition of thej vivacious Judy Garland, gives one of its best efforts. The title is "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante." The supporting programme includes an "Our Gang" comedy, an interesting demonstration of a cinematograph stroboscope, and a colour cartoon. PARAMOUNT THEATRE. George Formby plays his ukulele, sings several new songs, and displays' much more of his engaging foolish-; ness in "Feather Your Nest," showing at the Paramount Theatre. There's lots of fun and many hilarious situations. "I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now" is a much better production than the title suggests. Several catchy songs are included in the picture. ROXY THEATRE. Thrills and excitement are forthcoming in Warner Bros.' "Virginia City," in which Errol Flynn and Miriam Hopkins appear as people with conflicting missions that take them on a hazardous journey across the Painted Desert of the U.S.A. Also showing at the Roxy is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "These Glamorous Girls," Lew Ayres and a bevy of youthful beauties in a collegiate comedy which stars Lana Turner. REGAL THEATRE, KARORI. "The Saint Takes Over," a vivid story of a resourceful crook's campaign to save the reputation of a police inspector, brings George Sanders, Wendy Barrle, and Jonathan Hale to the Regal at Karori. Also showing is a breezy story, "Private Affairs," featuring Nancy Kelly, Robert Cummings, Hugh Herbert, and Roland Young. SEASIDE THEATRE, LYALL BAY. A curse that persisted through the ages and a love that could not be defeated by misfortune and disaster are the outstanding dramatic features of Universal's "The House of the Seven Gables," a screen dramatisation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's famous novel, being shown today at the Seaside, Lyall Bay. In the featured roles are Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, George Sanders, Nan Grey, and Dick Foran. Also being shown is Boris Karloff's latest Columbia shocker, "The Man With Nine Lives," a startling drama telling a blood-curdling story of "frozen sleep" in sensational fashion. CAPITOL, JVIIRAMAR. While the story of "Four Wives" is complete in itself, it takes up the fortunes and romances of the "Four Daughters" where last year's film left off. Also showing at the Capitol is "The Ghost Breakers," which again co-stars that incomparable team Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, and blends mystery, chicanery, and comedy into one and the same picture. STATE THEATRE, PETONE. George Formby stars in "Gunner George," at the State Theatre, Petone. He x-eveals the light side of modern warfare by innocently joining the British Secret Service and smashing the U-boat menace single-handed, just for fun. He gets a job as a ukulele player in a broadcasting dance band in Norway, the leader of which turns out to be an enemy spy, the music conveying information, of departing vessels. PALACE THEATRE, PETONE. In "Ride, Ranger, Ride," being shown at the Palace Theatre, Petone, Gene Autry rides the adventure trail with the bravest men in the world, "The Texas Rangers." The second feature brings Jane Withers and carefree Leo Carrillo in a heart-warming story, "Chicken Wagon Family." GRAND THEATRE, PETONE. "Espionage Agent," a picture so timely that it might have been written since the outbreak of war, though it was filmed several weeks before the declaration portrays an American diplomat who is "broken" out of the service through no fault of his own and who. to redeem himself in the eyes of his superiors, becomes a selfappointed under-coyer agent for the United States. The second attraction at the Grand features the Crazy Gang in their latest comedy sensation, "Frozen Limits." PRINCE EDWARD, WOBURN. Mickey Rooney plays Andy Hardy. Lewis Stone the Judge, Cecilia Parker the part of Marian Hardy, Fay Holden the mother, and Ann Rutherford, Polly : Benedict in "Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever," which is a scream from start • to finish. Also screening at the Prince ! Edward is "Remember the Night," co- j starring vehicle -for Barbara Stanwyck and Fxed Mac Murray* : ' -. Jj

CITY AND SUBURBAN THEATRES

. KING'S THEATRE. I "Tom Brown's Schooldays," which ■ portrays the classic so well read even t today, features Freddie Bartholomew (East), Sir Cedric Hardwicke (Dr. ■ Arnold), and Jimmy Lydon (Tom i Brown). AH angles of schoolboy life at the beginning of the nineteenth ceni tury are portrayed, and the insensate ' • cruelty of the schoolboy far more pro- ; nounced than in our schools today, is :, faithfully depicted. Jimmy Lydon, in [the title role, is a likeable boy, with | tenacious courage and a determination ;not U: chuckle down to the bullying : elemeiji; The boys in the picture— : it is at ■'•»- King's—are just like boys :at schooi .»'')t_ puppets created in the '; mind of a I ln\ playwright. The supi' ports inciiiife aewsreels and an excelt lent comedy. [. ————— \ i PLAZA THEATRE. '! "The Blue Bird," Maurice Maeter- | linck's famous play, is being shown 1[ at the Plaza Theatre, featuring Shir- ■ | ley Temple with a cast of notables in * a film of. magnificent settings and t! colour. The charming fairy tale lends > itself to the spectacular, and it is spectacular and lavish to a remarkable degree. Some of the sequences, notably the forest fire, will long live in the memory. Johnny Russell plays the part of Mytyl's little brother, and I [others in the cast besides Shirley ;■ i Temple are Russell Hicks, Spring By- - i ington, Eddie Collins, Gale Sondegaard, s Laura Hope Crews, and Nigel Bruce. i • ' a STATE THEATRE. 1 The State Theatre presents its fine 5 triple-feature programme, "Men 1 Against the Sky," "Siege," and' Triple - Justice," for the last time today. : Tomorrow Jack Randall, the singing - cowboy, stars in "Riders of the Dawn," in which Randall plays the part of a State marshal who poses as a notorious gunman in order to clean lup a Western town. He gets into the i | inner circle of the bandits but comes 7 1 into direct conflict with the real gun- , man and there is a stirring shoot-up. I Peggy Keys is the heroine and others ' in the cast are Warner Richmond, , George Cooper, James Sheridan, Earl " Dwire, Lloyd Ingraham, and Ed Brady. 1 A second Western feature is "King of *■ the Sierras," a thrilling saga of wild f horse life in which horses and not men - provide the thrills and the fight for leadership brings into action two of the wonder horses of the world, with a round-up of the wild mustangs of Arizona. I DE LUXE THEATRE. i Love and marriage for stewardesses i and pilots are not seriously considered ;. by the heads of big aerial passenger s transport companies, but in "Flying i Angels," at the De Luxe, the possibili- - ties where the girls liye in a seminary and the pilots are subject to strict discipline between trips, are well brought out by Virginia Bruce as Mary, the , most popular "hostess" on a sky liner, I and Dennis Morgan as its captain. The " picture is full of thrills. There are f also "The Man Who Dared," a "Drums " of Fu Manchu" episode, and a coloured 7 Q short. c —— f TUDOR THEATRE. 7 "Kit Carson," in which men of the " West, Indians, and the scenes of life r of Arizona, California, and Mexico in •" days gone by are excitingly portrayed, ' is being shown at the Tudor Theatre. Jon Hall and Lynn Bari figure in a cast that adequately rise to the action and opportunity the story presents, and real life is the result. Also being ' screened is "Slightly Honourable," in s which Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold, - and Ruth Terry have the., principal g parts. s ~~~~~~~ £ REX THEATRE. c Defying the conventional world bee cause she is in love, Katherine Hepburn and madcap Cary Grant present a romance of thoroughly modern life in "Holiday," at the Rex Theatre. Dennis O'Keefe and -Wallace Beery . figure in the "Bad Man of Brimstone," " a second feature, with Virginia Br"<*« i in the part of the heroine. I PRINCESS THEATRE. s A double-feature programme at the s Princess Theatre presents "The Way , of All Flesh," Paramount's big produc- , tion, and "Stronger Than Desire," a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production in which the leading roles are filled by Virginia Bruce, Walter Pidgeon, Lee Bowman, Ann Dvorak, Uka Chase, and , Rita Johnson. i - EMPIRE THEATRE, ISLAND BAT. I "Saps at Sea," a Laurel and Hardy I feature, is the leading attraction at . the Empire Theatre, Island Bay. This fine comic gets full support from ' Columbia's presentation of Jack Holt in "Crime Takes a Holiday," in which the hero battles a terroristic racket mob to a standstill. KILBIRNIE KINEMA. 3 Mickey Rooney. with his portrayal , of Thomas A. Edison as a boy in f "Young Tom Edison," adds another page to one of Hollywood's most amaz-' ' ing careers. The associate feature, a "Mutiny in the Big House," stars Bar- ~ t ton Mac Lane and Charles Bickford. I VOGUE THEATRE. r Both big features, "Ninotchka" and 7 "On Their Own," will conclude at the 1 Vogue Theatre tonight. Tomorrow and on New Year's Day Walter Wanger's "The House Across the Bay," in which George Raft and '» Joan Bennett play the chief parts, with 3 strong support, will be shown. This ' is a dramatic story of a young Woman's f problem when her husband is sent to _ gaol. 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