AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20142, 11 January 1940, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE “NEWS IS MADE AT NIGHT" AND “YOUNG Mil. LINCOLN": LAST DAY Basking in wealth, power and respectability, one man was aide to victimise a big metropolis. But onto Ills trail came the clever reporters of a crusading newspaper. What happened to this master criminal is revealed in “News Is Made At Night," the thrilling 20th Century-Fox idea sc which concludes at the King's Theatre io-night. Lynn Bari plays the part of a beautiful and .spirited girl reporter. Her managing editor is Preston Foster, a hard-hitting gent who does not pull a punch. The associate feature, Young Mr. Lincoln." stars Henry Fonda. It is full of melodramatic excitement, and thrilling action. —■“Chicken Wagon Family," “Quick Millions,” and March of Time": Tomorrow.— One >f tiie biggest programme., ever presented at the King's Theatre will have its initial .screenings to-morrow. The “Chicken Wagon Family" is rolling Into town to-morrow with .lane Withers and Leo Carrillo in the driver’s seat! The 20th Century-Fox screen version of the lovable story by Barry Benefield that stirs the wanderlust in us all, opens then at the King's Theatre and promises to bring us all plenty of adventure and excitement and laughter and romance! Partners again, this time Jane and Carrillo are daughter and daddy in a carefree family who hear lire call of the open road, toss their cares into a red bandanna and travel around the country bartering any ana everything for chickens —and selling the chickens when they hit lire buy city! And if you ,<mv.v Jane and Carniio, we need not 1 eli you that they run into plenty of trouble and excitement and fun on route! Jane’s mother. Spring B.vingten, and Jane's big sister, Marjorie Weaver, yearn to settle down m a real home in the big city. But Papa Carrillo cannot keep a dollar and when they get to town the best they' can do--with the aid of a handsome policeman in the person of Kane Richmond who falls in love with .Marjorie at first sight—is to settle down m a deserted, fire house that is up for public sale. After a series a amazing and amusing adventures, in the typical Withers tra uti m. all ends happily. The associate tealure "Quick Millions,” features the ever papv.iar Jones family, and every Jones is good for mmy laughs. The film takes the family to the Cl "and Canyon to claim a gold mine they have inherited, but it costs them If for ovorv dollar they get out of the nine! Jed I’ro.ity, Spring Byington, Ken Howell. George Ernest, June Carlson. Forcnee Roberts and Billy Mahan are featured. Also screening w : ii b’ the latest "March m Time," and “Fox-Aussie News," which reconstructs the “Graf von Spec" battle.

REGENT THEATRE LAST DAY: JOAN BLONDELL AND MELVYN DOUGLAS IN “GOOD GIRLS GO TO PARIS" Joan Blonde'll, Melvyn Douglas and Walter Connolly are the principals of the light-hearted picture "Good Girls Go to Paris,” the current attraction at the Regent Theatre. An American’ waitress’ insatiable ambition to visit the famed French capital forms the basis of polished comedy. —To-morrow: N.Z. and Australian Premiere of Mickey Rooney in “Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever"— The Hardy Family takes a (ling at life, both romantic and dramatic, in the seventh of the popular series. “Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever.” which will have its New Zealand and Australian premiere to-morrow at the Regent Theatre. All the familiar faces are back. However, Lewis Stone ns the judge, Mickey Rooney as Andy and Cecilia Parker as Marian fall victims to a spirit of caprice and it is lip to Fay Holden (Mother Hardy) and Sara Iladcn (Aunt Milly) to remain the stabilising members. Newcomers to the cast arc Helen Gilbert, a new discovery who plays Andy’s latest love, and Terry Kilburn, who recently scored qn outstanding success in “Goodbye, Mr. Chips." W. S. Van Dyke 11, director of such pictures as "The Thin Man,” "San Francisco” and “Sweethearts,” is said to fully capitalise ah the possibilities of the humorous situations in which the Hardy Family finds itself. The adventurous spirit strikes the Hardys like a cyclone. In this picture, the judge loses his usual conservativeness and almost loses everything ho owns in a crooked promotion stunt. In the end, however, his good sense prevails and he turns a “gold brick” into pa.y dirt Then Andy quarrels with his sweetheart, Polly Benedict, played by Ann Rutherford, and falls crazily in love with a beautiful school teacher. To win her esteem, lie turns playwrightactor, and, despite his father’s advice, even proposes to the older girl. Marian decides to forsake social life for a career and in return gets mixed up with the swindling promoters. In the end, however, the judge emerges victorious; Andy gets a rude awakening and realises his old love, Polly, is still the best, and Marian decides she is not a career-girl. In brief, the Jlardy Family returns to normal. MAJESTIC THEATRE "TELEVISION SPY’’ ANI) "OUTLAWS OF THE PRAIRIE.” A drama which plunges boldly into the world of to-morrow, one which shows a brilliant young scientist lighting courageously to keep his discoveries in Ihe field of long-range television out of the hands of enemy Powers, which finds him falling in love with a lovely girl via television across 2000 miles of space, commences to-day at the Majeslie Theatre, li is Paramount’s "Television Spy," featuring William Henry, Judith Barret!, William Collier, son., Anthony Quinn and Richard Denning. Briefly, tiie story tells how Henry, a young scientist, perfects long-range television for a crusty, wealthy old sponsor. William Collier, sen. Testing his equipment, Henry tunes in on a bootleg station using ids own wave-length. A lovely girl, Judith Barrett, is operating, and photographs of his plans are on a table near her. Henry subsequently learns that Miss Barrett’s father has been duped into constructing the set by a gang of spies, which plans to .sell the equipment to enemy powers. When the schemers attempt to destroy Miss Barrett and her father, Henry fights back with all the scientific knowledge at his command, and the picture speeds to a dramatic conclusion. Red-blooded adventure, blended with trigger-fast action, soft mellow range ballads and a stirring

Dory, is two-fisted Charles Starrett’s latest Columbia picture, “Outlaws of Ihe Prairie," the associate feature. Adding to the spell of "Outlaws of the Prairie," which is undoubtedly one of the finest outdoor dramas in many months, arc the Sons of the Pioneers, a unique musical quintet. They accompany Donald Grayson in -singing four beautiful ballads introduced in the picture. One, "Blue Prairie,” is easily an outstanding bit. The programme opens with the serial, "The Oregon Trail." For the convenience of patrons who wish to wait up to farewell the soldiers, there will he a late session a I 10.30 o’clock tonight.