GUY RELEASES

Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 5

GUY RELEASES

CURRENT AND COMING ATTRACTIONS ROMANTIC COMEDY. Grand, Wednesday next: ‘There Goes My Girl ’ (RKO-Radio), Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond. Director, Ben Holmes. Screening time, 76 min. Torn between her love for a rival reporter and her zest for headline-hunt-ing, pretty Ann Sothern wrestles with the marriage problem in her latest screen play, ‘ There Goes My Girl.’ Miss Sothern is co-starred with Gene (Raytmond for the fourth time in this fast--paced comedy. Each time they plan to marry, a hard-boiled city editor interferes with their‘plans. There are two murders, one a hoax, the other real, in the course of the story, which thus embodies the qualities of both mystery and romance. The Martin Johnson jungle film ‘ Borneo,’ will he the associate feature. NEW YORK IN TECHNICOLOUR. Regent, Friday next: ‘ Vogues of. 1938 ’ (United Artists), Warner Baxter, Joan Bennett, Helen Vln-, son. Director, Irving Cummings. Screening time, 108 min. / Manhattan—its streets, shops, night clubs, restaurants —has been captured

i in all its myriad colour for the first • time. The great metropolis makes its techi nicolour debut in ‘ Vogues of 1938,’ a i gay musical extravaganza. The scenes ’ were obtained by Charles, Kerr, assist- ) ant director, and Winton Hoch, technii colour camera chief of the production, • Accompanying Mr Kerr and Mr Hoch i was a crew of 35 sound, light and colour technicians, who assisted in the filming ' of all exterior and interior sequences, i Thousands of pounds worth of technii colour equipment including two colour ■ cameras, colour indicators and sound I mufflers, was transported east at unprecedented expense, in the studio’s attempt to capture the colour and spirit 1 of New York so essential to this produc- • tion. Among the backgrounds that figure - prominently in the story of 4 Vogues or ■ 1938 ’ are such famous night spots and restaurants as El Morocco, the Maisonette Russe, the Colony Club, Twenty One and the Cotton Club. SOLDIER TURNED GANGSTER. Empire, Friday next: ‘ They Gave Him a Gun ’ (M.-G.-M.), Spencer Tracy, Gladys George, Franchot Tone. Director, W. S. ■ Van Dyke. Screening time, 92 minutes. With Spencer Tracy, Gladys George, 1 and Franchot Tone teamed in the leading . roles, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s ‘ They Gave Him a Gun ’ promises some excellent acting performances. Tracy is seen as Fred Willis, circus barker, in the adaptation of the Wil--1 liam Joyce Oowen best-seller, while Franchot Tone plays the small-town bookkeeper, Jimmy Davis, who turns racketeer following the war. Gladys George is the Red Cross nurse, Rose Dufly, whom they both love. Featured supporting roles include Cliff (Ukulele Ike) Edwards as Laro, Tracy’s circus helper, and Mary Lou Treen as Saxe, Rose Duffy’s fellownurse. There are approximately 250 speaking parts, all told. ‘ SONG OF THE CITY.’ Strand, Friday next: ‘ Song of the City’ (M.-G.-M.), Margaret Lindsay, Jeffrey Dean, Nat Pendleton, Director, Errol Taggart. Screening time, 67 minutes. ‘ Song of the City ’ is based on an original story by Michael Fessier. The story deals with a worthwhile young “playboy” who is broke and will not marry a girl with money. While crossing the bay to San Francisco he fails overboard. Rescued by an Italian family, be is nursed back to health by the beautiful daughter. As he is falling in love with the daughter the rich girls finds him, and he is forced to'

return to her or suffer the penalty for having used her money. He leaves with the rich girl on her yacht for Ensenada, where they are going to be married. Broken-hearted, the Italian girl boards a steamer for Milan with a man who has offered her a chance to study singing if she will marry him, En route the steamer catches fire some miles from the yacht. The boy hears the distress calls over the radio and goes to the aid of the steamer. When he rescues the girl the rich woman realises that this is his true love and allows them to marry. Supporting this feature will be 1 Four Days’ Wonder,’ with Jeanne Dante, Kenneth Howell, and Martha Sleeper. . KIPLING STORY FILMED. State, now showing: ‘ Wee Willie Winkie ’ (Twentieth Century-Fox), Shirley Temple, Victor M'Laglen, Cesar Romero. Director, John Ford. Screening time, 101 min. Kipling’s characters live adventurously and courageously on adventure’s last frontier in the Twentieth CenturyFox picturisation of his famed ‘ Wee Willie Winkie,’ now showing at the State, with Shirley Temple and Victor M'Laglen in the starring roles. From the heart of India, where the world is wild and strange, where the British raj ends at Khyber Pass, in the land of the Bengal Lancers, comes this adventure of the Scottish Highlanders in action and of the little girl who won the right to wear their plaid. Said to be the most' Spectacular production in

which Shirley Temple has yet appeared, ‘ Wee Willie Winkie ’ gives Victor M'Laglen a powerful role as a fighting fool, and provides splendid opportunities to C. Aubrey Smith, June Lang, Michael Whalen, Cesar Romero, Constance Collier, and Young Douglas Scott. GEORGE FORMBY AGAIN. St. James, Friday next: ‘ Keep Fit’ (British Empire Films), George Formby. Screening time, 85min. George Formby’s first acting was in revue. Contracts for pantomime followed, and variety and recording work poured in. He made two small films and got his big chance when the A.T.P. producer, Basil Dean, saw him in action on the variety stage. Sensing the artistic force of Formby, Dean visited a Manchester theatre in order to catch Formby’s turn, and immediately went

back-stage and signed the comedian on a seven years’ contract. Formby’s first film for A.T.P. was * No Limit,,’ in which he was a freak motor cyclist riding in the famous T.T. races on the Isle of Man. Then followed ‘ Keep Your Seats, Please ’ and ‘ Feather Your Nest,’ and with each production Formby’s popularity increased, and to-day he is ranked as one of Britain’s greatest comedians. In his new film, ‘Keep Fit,’ Formby is seen as a barber’s assistant who unwittingly enters a big “ keep fit ” competition, conducted by a local newspaper. BIRTH OF LLOYD’S. Mayfair, now showing: ‘ Lloyd’s of London ’ (Twentieth CenturyFox), Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, Freddie Bartholomew. Director, Henry King. Screening time, 129 min. The surge of the most dramatic era in English history culminates in the roaring thunder and flash of the epochal naval battle of Trafalgar, an outstanding highlight of ‘ Lloyd’s of London.’ Authentic to the last detail. Lord Nelson’s great victory is reproduced in all the grandeur of the days of wooden ships and iron men. Seven eighteenth century sailing vessels for the gigantic scene were built, rigged, and manned on the Twentieth Century-Fox lot by Chris Christensen, veteran seaman, and one of the greatest living authorities on wooden ships.