ENTERTAINMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 63, 11 September 1943, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

KING'S THEATRE,

: Even those who haven't got a legal mind will find "The Talk of the Town," which started at the King's Theatre yesterday, more tiian usually entertaining. It is a blend of comedy and somewhat heavy drama, based on the two different points of view of two different men— one an escaped prisoner and the other a professor of law. The escaped prisoner is Cary Grant, charged with a framed-up crime of murder and arson, who champions the human side of legal ethics, and the other is. Ronald Colman, who sticks to the copybook rules. The prisoner finds refuge with the lawyer, and here starts a conflict of opinion, in which Jean Arthur attempts to reconcile two points of view, and prevent other people from badgering her around. The acting of these three principals is superb. Jean Arthur has a fine sense of comedy. The supporting programme is excellent.

DE LUXE THEATRE

Will Hay and Charles Hawtrey. in "The Goose Steps Out" at the De Luxe Theatre, make a riot out of a satirised secret service story. The spy is sent to Germany to wrest the secret of a new weapon and goes, of all things, as the teacher of German lads how to become effective spies in England. One of the high lights is the scene with the professor who evolved the bomb. The British spy is not sure how much he has told the professor in his cups, and. wavers between giving him an arsenic pick-me-up or relying on the fact that the Hun while woozy has made fun of Adolf's mo. The Hun youth spy pupils help in the fun. It .transpires that they only joined theclass so that they could stay in England when they get there. There are slips between other cups and other lips, and the thrill of an inevitable - crash which never materialises. "Lady Bodyguard/ with Eddie Albert and Ann Shirley is a hectic comedy of a milliondollar insurance, with thugs trying to kill the insured pilot, and his girl doing her best to kep him on the ground. '

PARAMOUNT THEATRE,

Two old favourites return to the Paramount1 Theatre this week. The first is Walter Wanger's "Arabian Nights," a spectacular and lavish production in Technicolor. Bomance, thrills, and adventure against a glamorous background - are dispensed with a liberal hand by euch stars as Jon Hall, Maria Montez, and Sabu. The programme's second feature is "The Boys From Syracuse." This makes no pretensions at being other than a laughtermaking production, and in this it succeeds admirably. It is a skit on ancient Greek life (very much modernised), with some songs of merit thrown in, two sets of identical twins causing more than a spot of bother and confusion. Joe Penner, Martha Baye, Rosemary Lane, Allan Jones, Charles Butterworth, Eric Blore, Alan Mowbray, and Irene Hervey are the fun-making team.

TIVOLI THEATRE

"Virginia," Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray; "Sun Valley Serenade," Sonja Henie, John Payne.

Claudette Colbert and Robert Young are starred in "I Met Him' in Paris," a musical and dance comedy to be shown tomorrow in conjunction with "College Holiday," a wellcast picture in which Jack Benny and Gracie Allen are the leads. v

ROXY THEATRE,

"Home in Wyomin'," Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette; "Mug Town," Dead-end Kids. TUDOR THEATRE.

"The Daring Young Man," Joe E. Brown; "Counter-espionage," Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke.

TIME THEATRE,

"Contraband," Conrad Veldt,- Valeric Hobson; "Married Bachelor," Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Felix Bressart.

PRINCESS THEATRE.

"The Great Lie," Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor; "Born to Sing," Virginia Weidler.

MAJESTIC THEATRE

"Stand By for Action," Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Charles Laughton. ■ * . , PLAZA THEATRE.

"Miss Annie Rooney," Shirley Temple, William Gargan, Guy Kibbee. . .

STATE THEATRE,

■ "Marriage on Ice," Sonja Henle, John Payne. * ,

OPERA HOUSE

"Underground," Philip Dorn, Jeffrey Lynn, Kaaren Verne, Mona Marls; 'Tight, Fish, Tight."

ST. JAMES THEATRE.

"Who Done It?" Bud Abbott, Lou Costello.

SUBURBAN THEATRES,

Empire (Island Bay).—"The Affairs of Martha" and "Man at Large."

King George (Lower Hutt).—"Wake Island.". Ascot (Newtown). —"Eyes in the Night" and "Bombay Clipper."

Kinema (Kilbirnie). —"The Bride Came C.0.D." and "True to the Army." Rivoli (Newtown). —"You Belong to Me" and "Rise and Shine.".

Vogue (Brooklyn).—"Are Husbands Necessary?" and "A Shot in the Bark."

.Prince Edward (Woburn).—"Blood and Sand" and-"Tanks a Million."

De Luxe (Lower Hutt). — After Dark" and liv."

A Gentleman

Regal (Karori).—"Between Us Girls" and "Banana Ridge." .

Capitol (Miramar).—"My Heart Belongs to Daddy".and "Sons of the Sea."

Seaside (Lyall Bay).—"Dangerous Moonlight" and "Weekend for Throe."

State (Petone). —"The Great Lie," Bette Davis, George Brent.

Palace (Petone) .—"Weekend in Havana," Alice Faye, Cesar Romera, Carmen Miranda. Khandallah Pictures.—"Once Upon a Honeymoon," Cary Grant, .Ginger Rogers; "Case of the Black Parrot," William Lundigan, Marls Wrixoh.

Ngaio Citizens' Pictures.—"The Great Waltz " Fernard Gravet, Miliza Korjus; "A Gentleman at Heart," Carole Landis, Cesar Romero.

RECITAL BY PUPILS,

A ■ recital of ballet will be presented by pupils of. Miss Jeane Home next Saturday at the Technical College. A varied programme includes "Spectre de la Rose," "Chopiniana " Deep in the Forest," "Peter Pan and the Fairies," and among the lighter, numbers "Waiting For the Robert E. Lee," "Me and My Gal," and "Do You Believe in Fairy Tales." The box plan opens at the D.I.C. on Monday.