ENTERTAINMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

KING'S THEATRE. "Tom Brown's Schooldays," which portrays the classic so well read even today, features Freddie Bartholomew (East), Sir Cedric Hardwicke (Dr. Arnold), and Jimmy Lydon (Tom Brown). All angles of schoolboy life at the beginning of the nineteenth century are portrayed, and the insensate cruelty of the schoolboy far more pronounced than in our schools today, is faithfully depicted. The boys are just like boys at school. The supports include newsreels and an excellent comedy. PLAZA THEATRE. "The Blue Bird," Maurice Maeterlinck's famous play, is being shown at the Plaza Theatre, featuring Shirley Temple with a cast of notables in a film of magnificent settings and 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, others in the cast besides Shirley Temple are Russell Hicks, Spring Byington, Eddie Collins, Gale Sondegaard, Laura Hope Crews, and Nigel Bruce. STATE THEATRE. The State Theatre presents its fine triple-feature programme, "Men Against the Sky," "Siege," and "Triple Justice," for the last time today. Tonight, at 11 o'clock, 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 up a Western town. He gets into the inner circle of the bandits but comes into direct conflict with the real gunman and there is a stirring shoot-up. Peggy Keys is the heroine and others in the cast- are Warner Richmond, George Cooper, James Sheridan, Earl Dwire, Lloyd Ingraham, and Ed Brady. A second Western feature is "King of the Sierras," a thrilling saga of wild 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. DE LUXE THEATRE. Love and marriage for stewardesses and pilots are not seriously considered by the heads of big aerial passenger transport companies, but in "Flying Angels," at the De Luxe, the possibilities where the girls live 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, and Dennis Morgan as its captain. The picture is full of thrills. There are also "The Man Who Dared," a "Drums of Fu Manchu" episode, and a coloured short. TUDOR THEATRE. "Kit Carson," in which men of the West, Indians, and the scenes of life 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 which Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold, and Ruth Terry have the principal parts. KILBIRME KINEMA. Mickey Rooney, with his portrayal of Thomas A. Edison as a boy in "Young Tom Edison," adds another page to one of Hollywood's most amazing careers. The associate feature, "Mutiny in the Big House," stars Barton Mac Lane and Charles Bickford. CAPITOL MIRAMAR. Tonight will conclude a successful three-night season of the mystery-comedy-thriller "The Ghost Breakers," with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. and the main attraction, "Four Wives," with the three Lane girls, Gale Page, and John Garfield. Tomorrow will see a complete change of programme, with "Young Tom Edison," which stars Mickey Rooney, and "Remember the Night," with Barbara Stanwick and Fred McMurray co-starred. VOGUE THEATRE. A story of turbulent love in which the heroine gambles a man's love to save his life brings together George Raft and Joan Bennett, with her smouldering beauty, in "The House Across the. Bay," at the Vogue Theatre. The associate feature, "You Can't Fool. Your Wife," stars Lucille Ball and James Ellison in a merry matrimonial muddle. He strayed, but the temptress turned out to be his wife. ASCOT THEATRE. The pride-stirring naval drama, "Brown on Resolution," being screened at the Ascot Theatre, tells of the courage and devotion to duty of our glorious Navy. Also showing is "High School," with Jane Withers at her usual best in mischief, comedy, and drama. Excellent supports contribute to an outstanding programme. KILBIRNIE KINEMA. "Young Tom. Eedison" and "Mutiny in the Big House" will conclude tonight at the Kilbirnie Kinema. A great actor in a great picture is the treat in store for Wednesday and Thursday, when Darryl F. Zanuck's production of "Stanley and Livingstone" is shown. It is another masterly performance by Spencer Tracy., There are thrills also in the associate feature, "Untamed," Paramount's gripping story of the north-west, filmed in Technicolour and starring Ray Milland, Akim Tamiroff, I and Patricia Morison. EMPIRE THEATRE, ISLAND BAY. "Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love," a musical comedy-drama that has delighted many audiences forms the programme at the Empire Theatre, with the support of the Will Hay comedy team in "Hey, Hey, U.S.A." REGAL THEATRE,jKARORI. Greta Garbo, Melvyn^Douglas, and Ina Claire star in "Ninotchka," the big Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production that has created enthusiasm wherever screened, and will be presented at the Regal Theatre, Karori, tonight, tomorrow, and on Thursday.