CURRENT ENTKRTAINMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1941, Page 4

CURRENT ENTKRTAINMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE. By rights, a report of "Gone with the Wind," which is showing at the Majestic Theatre, should be merely tht statement: The greatest picturt evei made—in every detail. "Gout With the Wind" is the m6st taithfu. rilrnisation of a novel the screen ha> eve* attempted It contains undoubt edly the most beautiful technicoloui photography conceivable. Clark Gable is naturally' a perfect Rhett Butlei Vivien Leigh is wholly Scarlett. Leslie Howard ir- outstanding, and Olivia de Havilland surpasses anything she's evei done. REGENT THEATRE. Margaret Sullavan and Charles Bi.vpr head thf oast ol 'Bark Street' at the Regent Theatre. Miss Sullavan 1 is cast as Ray Smith, young shop assistant in the Cincinnati of 1900. Charles Boyer Is a young banker from New York. They meet and fall in love, but fate prevents their ever marrying. He leaves for New York, marries a society girl, and ultimately is the father of a daughter and son. She refuses several offers of matrimony, and for nearly 30 years follows all over the world the man she loves. OPERA HOUSE. Brimful of fun. songs, and rollicking romance, Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer's "Hullabaloo" is showing at the Opera House. The principal players include Frank ('Wizard of Oz") Morgan, Billie Burke, Virginia Grey, and Charles Holland, the negro tenor. ST. JAMES THEATRE. As the flower of the north which attracts all bees of trouble for miles around, George Formby is his plain, delightful self in "Call a Cop," the comedy which is continuing at St. James Theatre If his face is his fortune, it is also the very good fortune of the audience, and George, with a background of shipyards, police, and sabotage, has all the scope he needs for his particular and stimulating variety of fun-making. DE LUXE THEATRE. Tingling drama and romance of Texas pioneer days are revived in Paramount's epic story of border adventure, "Rangers of Fortune," which is showing at the De Luxe Theatre. A trio of reckless cowboys under the spell of adventure are the heroes of the picture, and the partners of a fighting newspaperman against a powerful land-grabbing gang which uses terror and violence to carry out its purpose. Fred Mac Murray and Patricia Morison are the romantic leads. Several of the screen's more promising young players are given a chance to carry a picture on their own in Paramount's "Dancing on a Dime," the associate film, and the result is one of the most entertaining pictures seen for a long time. The cast is headed by Robert Paige. PARAMOUNT THEATRE. Taken from the popular book of the same name "The Green Light," starring Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, and Margaret Lindsay is showing at the Paramount Theatre. Errol Flynn appears in his first modern role as a young doctor who nobly takes the blame for the death of a woman under an operation, in reality performed by an older man whose nerves were on the rack from business worries—Henry O'Neill. As it happens the girl he loves is the daughter of the unfortunate victim —Anita Louise. Bette Davis and Leslie Howard are the stars of "It's. Love I'm After," the associate film. The story is an intricate tale woven around the life of a great Shakespearean actor and his leading lady who are of course Leslie and Bette Davis. PRINCESS THEATRE. "Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever," starring Mickey Rooney, and "River's End," starring Dennis Morgan and George Tobias, head the bill at the Princess Theatre. TIVOLI THEATRE. Douglas Fairbanks, jun., is starred in Columbia's "Angels Over Broadway," showing at the Tivoli Theatre, with Rita Hay worth and Thomas Mitchell featured. "Angels Over Broadway" presents the. star as a confidence man, Miss Hayworth as a cafe enter- . tamer, and Mitchell as a drunken playwright. "Girls from God's Country," starring Chester Morris, Jane Wyatt, and Charles Bickford, is the second feature. »

CITY AND SUBURBAN THEATRES

KING'S THEATRE. Against backgrounds which have aevei before been equalled for piclorial brilliance and sweeping specacle Alexander Korda's great Tech,irolor adventure romance, "The Thief >i R-tuHad." starring Sabu Cnnrad Veidt June Duprez, and John Justin, opens today at the King's Theatre. The story of "The Thief of Bagdad" takes place in the cities of Basra and Bagdad in Persia. Basra, many hundreds of years ago, was the most important town and seaport of Persia. Oriental merchandise Of every description was brought, by camel caravan from Bagdad, making a seething, colour-splashed seaport, swarming with Chinese, Arabs, Egyptians, Turks, Hindus, and African negroes. Its busy waters were filled. with all kinds of junks painted m dazzling colours. PLAZA THEATRE. /Hal Roach's latest comedy production "Road Show," which is showing at the Plaza Theatre, has a cast which boasts no fewer than nine of the top names in film comedy. They include Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard, Patsy Kelly, George E Stone, Charles Butterworth, Polly Ann Young, Margaret Roach,, and James Arthur. Produced and directed by Roach himself, "Road Show" is based on the hilariously funny novel of the same name by Eric Hatch. The hero of this best-seller, Drogo Games, is played by John Hubbard, who showed a brilliant flair for comedy in "The Housekeeper's Daughter" and "Turnabout." STATE THEATRE. Two entertaining films of widely differing character are now showing at the State Theatre. The first is "Michael Shayne, Private Detectiye," m which Lloyd Nolan has the title role of the wise-cracking yet likable young sleuth. The second feature, a lighthearted but cleverly constructed musical film, "Romance of the Rio Grande," stars Cesar Romero in a role in which he is perfectly at home. TUDOR THEATRE. Further activities of that romantic crook, the Saint, are covered in the film entitled "The Saint in Palm Springs," which is the main attraction at the Tudor Theatre. The part of the Saint is played by George Sanders, who has lost nothing of his easy charm of manner or of his almost supernatural resourcefulness in time of trial. "Let's Make Music," which is the associate attraction, revolves around the uproarious exploits of an elderly music teacher who leads a dull frustrated life till she sells an original school march to a Broadway publisher. ROXY THEATRE. "Vivacious Lady," starring Ginger Rogers and James Stewart, and "Flight Angels," with Virginia Bruce and Dennis Morgan, are the main films at the Roxy Theatre. REX THEATRE. "Dodge City," starring Errol Flynri and Olivia de Havilland, and "Enemy Agent," with Robert Armstrong, are showing at the Rex Theatre. SUBURBAN THEATRES. De Luxe (Lower Hutt).—"l Married Adventure"; "Cross-Country Romance, Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie. Grand (Petone).—"Gaucho Serenade,' 1 Gene Autry; "The Man Who Mada Diamonds," Noel Madison. Palace (Petone). — "Honolulu," Eleanor Powell, Robert Young; "Maisia Was a Lady," Ann Sothern. Prince Edward (Woburn).— Congo Maisie," Ann Sothern; "Men Against the Sky," Richard Dix, Wendy Barrie. Vocue (Brooklyn).—"Three Cheers for the Irish," Priscilla Lane, Thomas Mitchell; ."Enemy Agent," Richard Cromwell, Helen Vinson. Kinema (Kilbirnie).—"l Want a Divorce," Joan Blondell, Dick PowellJ "Sporting Blood," Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan. Rivoli (Newtown).—"All This And Heaven, Too," Bette Davis, Charles Boyer; "Secret Seven," Florence Rice, Barton Mac Lane. Regal (Karori) .—"Rhythm of the River," Bing.Crosby, Mary Martin* "The World in Flames." Capitol (Miramar).--"The Lion Has Wings," Ralph Richardson, Merle Oberon; "Argentine Nights," the Ritz Brothers, Andrew Sisters. Ascot (Newtown).—"Tin Pan Alley,* Alice Faye. John Payne; "Where's That Fire?" Will Hay, Graham Moffatt. King George (Lower Hutt).—"Escape," Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor. Empire (Island Bay).—"Night Tram to Munich," Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood; "It All Came. True," Ann Sheridan.

State (Petone).—"Rebecca" Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine.