AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20014, 12 August 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE “RENEGADE TRAIL” AND “NEVER SAY DIE.” Crowded sessions yesterday greeted Paramount's latest "Hop'along Cassidy” range romance "Renegade Trail at the Majestic Theatre. This story of ranchers’ efforts to prevent a woman from being blackmailed by her own convicthusband was filmed at Lone Pine, California, at the foot of Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the United States, William Boyd, George Hayes and Russell Hayden head the cast, playing the daredevil “Cassidy" and his two saddlemates. “Windy Ilalliday” and “Lucky Jenkins," respectively. An added attraction is offered in “The King’s Men." popular male quartet of stage, screen and radio, whose members arc now cast as Arizona cowboys. Good-natured humour paces the action throughout the picture, with Hayes and Boyd's other pal, Russell Hayden, almost as much afraid of the woman’s charms as they are of the rustlers’ guns! The lady in the case is played by attractive Charlotte Wynters. The associate comedy feature, "Never Say Die,’ istars Martha Rave and Bob Hope in a tale of a hypochondriac who. thinking he has only a month to live, marries a flighty American girl to do her a favour and then finds out that lie is not doomed after nil. The affair is a further complicated by the arrival of the hometown sweetheart of Miss Rayc, played by Andy Devine, who accompanies the couple on their honeymoon in order to keep a watchful eye on the bride! The programme opens with the final chapter of “Scouts to the Rescue."

KING’S THEATRE “STAGE COACH" Across a vast panorama of primitive splendour,, several thousand feet above sea level under a burning sun, a solitary stage conch careers and rocks behind six galloping horses. Every mile brings the coach and its odd assortment of passengers closer to a waiting band ot murderous Apaches, led by Geronimo, fiercest of them all. This is the tense and thrilling background of Walter Wangers “Stagecoach,” a frontier drama of the 1880's, when Indians still roamed the sage-brush, which heads the bill at the King’s Treatre, with Claire Trevor and John Wayne in the starring roles. Miss Trevor, appearing as Dallas, a girl of shady reputation who has been driven from Tonto by a self-righteous group of women, and Wayne, impersonating Ringo Kid, another social outcast, are passengers on this coach.

REGENT THEATRE “HONOLULU.” The enjoyable musical film "Honolulu," in which ’the dancer Eleanor Powell gives some remarkable displays, will continue its season at the Regent Theatre to-day. Full advantage is taken of a dual-role per' formance by Robert Young, who plays as a famous screen actor, tired oi fame, and as a plantation owner, who is not averse to trying the limelight for a change. The film actor, however, finds he ha.s run Hnto trouble in the shape of his double's fiancee, who commences a forceful campaign for an immediate marriage, while occasional scenes of New York show that ithe plantation owner is enjoying himself even less. Other roles are filled by Gracie Allen and George Burns, and the humour provided by these two, the many delightful songs and the (beautiful dances of ‘the principal all combine to provide an exceptionally fine production. '1 here is an excellent supporting programme including an Our Gang comedy, "Our Wilbur," a Fitzpatrick travel film in colour dealing with country life in Hungary, and another of the amusing Robert Benchley series, "Dark Magic." Also there is a delightful prologue preceding "Honolulu, m which 18 Maori maids sing and dance in the Hawaiian manner.