AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20457, 18 January 1941, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE LAST DAY: ‘'GREAT GlIY” AND “MEIN KAMPF” “Great Guy,” which concludes tonight at the Majestic, stars James Cagney, and that means action, thrills ana excitement, with general propor. lion of comedy. "Mein Kampf' was a book that avowed to the world at large just what Adolf Hitler intended to do. Now comes a film, "My Crimes,” which shows how he did it No studio-made fiction drama could convey the intense realism of this display of events which were the first rumblings of the present European earthquake Happenings which were headlines, the murders of Roehm and von Schleicher, Dolfuss lying in agony for hours while his killers try vainly lo get his agreement to a Nazi successor, becomes a reality through this film. There is a fascination born o( actually witnessing events. —"Brother Rat and a Baby” and “White Bondage”One of last year’s biggest comedy successes was Warner Bros.' “Brother Rat." The hilarious adventures ot three Military Academy students and their girl friends. The sequel to this picture, “Brother Rat and a Baby,’ will open at the Majestic Theatre on Monday, with the same cast as its predecessor. Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Ronald Reagan, Jane Bryan, Eddie Albert and Jane Wyman are the three couples, while Peter B. Good is the baby, and what a baby! Mischief is his middle name. Arthur Treacher, Moroni Olsen, Jessie Busley and Larry Williams are also on the cast. The story takes up the adventures of the “Brother Rat” characters, just one year after the boys’ graduation from Military Academy. Baby “Commencement,” the little fellow who was born on graduation day, is a real little mischief and his exploits land his mother and father and the other two couples into a series of adventures and misadventures. In fact, "Brother Rat and a /Baby,” like the original “Brother Rat” picture, is just a series of exciting comedy events from start to finish. It is a real joy show charged with surprises and bubbles over with hilarious entertainment. “White Bondage,” a melodrama dealing with the humble but picturesque cottongrowers and pickers of the remote regions of the “Deep South” of U.S.A., is the associate feature, with lovely 1 arid talented Jean Muir as its star. The programme includes another episode of the serial “Wild Bill Hicock.”

KING’S THEATRE

“FOUR SONS”: IMPRESSIVE FILM

With a theme similar to the film of the same title produced in 1928, “Four Sons,” which opened lo capacity houses at the King’s yesterday, is a tale of a Czechoslovakian mother ol four sons, who loses two of them in events pertaining to the occupation of their country by the Germans, and another in the Nazi conquest of Poland. The story opens perhaps a year before the first German-Czech crisis, with Don Ameche and Alan Curtis, the eldest of four sons living with their mother, who is played by Eugenie Leontovich. With her family divided, the mother finds herself in a difficult position, and this becomes even more unhappy» as three of them are killed during the occupation of the town. A happy ending is provided, however, with the remainder of the family starting out anew in America.

REGENT THEATRE

“I TAKE THIS WOMAN” Hedy Lamarr definitely becomes an outstanding dramatic actress in her first American picture in “I Take This Woman.” ‘showing at the Regent Theatre, in which she is co-starred with Spencer Tracy, one of the screen's greatest actors. The adtion of the story is in New York, in locales ranging from glamorous flight clubs and fashion salons to a dingy tenement. W. S. Van Dyke II directed. Verree Teasdale has one of her best wise-cracking roles and Kent Taylor enacts Tracy's rival for Miss Lamarr in the play. Laraine Day, Mona Barrie, Jack Carson, Paul Cavanagh, Louis Calhern, Frances Drake, Marjorie Main, George E. Stone, Willie Best. Don Castle, Dalies Frantz and Reed Hadley are other principals in the large cast. Dramatic highlights include an attempted suicide and rescue; a dramatic encounter between Miss Lamarr and her former lover; the event that brings her to a realisation that the physician is her real love; and gay revels in the colourful Zebra Club, its pillars formed of huge painted zebras. Penthouses of the rich contrast with action in the humble clinic. Miss Lamarr wears a number of gorgeous gowns, and other glamorous modes are shown in a colourful scene in a fashion studio.