TONIGHT'S WRESTLING.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 66, 15 September 1941, Page 4

TONIGHT'S WRESTLING.

The principal attraction on the wrestling programme at the Wellington Town Hall tonight will be a professional heavyweight contest between Jaget Singh and Fred Atkins, two of the most outstanding of the wrestlers now in the country. There is particularly keen rivalry between them and both. are anxious to win the most important fixture that has yet been staged this season.

For Singh success tonight will mean more, possibly, than to Atkins. The Indian has not forgotten his previous reverse at the hands of the Australian champion and is keen to wipe it off the slate. He has made special preparations for the contest, and will take the ring in fine fettle, ready to make the going hot from start to finish. If he cannot catch Atkins with the Indian death lock then he will try something else, and there is a feeling abroad that the cobra hold which he used in the previous match did not exhaust his specialties. In addition to amateur bouts there will be a specially interesting professional preliminary. B Monastra meeting R. Lockhead (Christrhurch) over five rounds.

KING'S THEATRE. [ Now in its second week at the King's Theatre, the British film "Freedom Radio" has a particularly topical appeal at the moment, dealing as it does with one of the most spectacular features of current war propaganda. The chief player is Clive Brook, who, in the role of a prominent Berlin doctor, becomes disgusted at the brutality ' and suppression practised by the agents of the Gestapo and, in order to counter the Nazi propaganda, sets up a transmitting set of his own. He has Diana Wynyard opposite him. . STATE THEATRE. Many of the melodies that made Irving Berlin famous form the background of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," which is showing at the State Theatre. The song that gave the picture its title ushered in a new era- of popular music before the last war, arid the picture shows how the new fashion in catchy tunes was launched in a San Francisco dive classically known as Dirty Eddie's. Tyrone Power and Alice Faye are starred. The supporting picture tells of the romance between a big handsome cowboy and a blonde movie star. PLAZA THEATRE. George Bernard Shaw's intriguing and witty play "Major Barbara" has been transferred to the screen and is the main attraction at the Plaza Theatre. "Major Barbara" was. made by Gabriel Pascal, with Wendy Hiller. star of "Pygmalion," Rex Harrison,, and Robert Morley in the leading roles. The film is outstanding not only for the work of the three principals, but for the excellence of the cast. The stamp of Shaw himself is on the picture as on the play. TUDOR THEATRE. "Topper Returns," Joan Blondell, Roland Young, and Billie Burke; "Five Little Peppers in Trouble," Edith Fellows. ST. JAMES THEATRE. "The Road to Zanzibar" continues to provide excellent entertainment at St. James Theatre. Against a jungle back-, ground Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and. Dorothy Lampur, together with several .other fun-makers, get into all kinds Of ludicrous predicaments. When two damsels in distress require 'escorting across the dark continent, it can well be imagined that .adventure and fun are not lacking, and encounters with natives of cannibalistic tendencies provide a feast of fun: .