AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20823, 30 June 1942, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Regent.—" Lady For a Night” opens at the Regent Theatre to-morrow. Joan Blondell and John Wayne present a dramatic story of the old Southern States when pride of birth was still the greatest handicap of the hard-bitten aristocracy of cotton planters. Joan is the life and soul of a gambling and pleasure resort patronised by the husbands and scorned by their wives, and when, after taking up the lOU’s of the son of a particular snobbish cotton planter, she marries into that family, a comedy with its tragic side evolves. Majestic.—Weird, uncanny and mysterious, "The Devil Commands,” starring Boris Karlolf, is the story of an attempt to pierce the veil beyond the grave. The associate feature, "Behind the News," is an exciting newspaper crime story starring Lloyd Nolan, Doris Davenport, and Robert Armstrong. Included in the programme is the seventh chapter of "Mandrake the Magician.” King’s.—All the lavishness of "That Night in Rio,” the melody of “Tin Pan Alley," and the eye-appeal of “Down Argentine Way” have been brought together in the latest 20th Century-Fox Technicolour musical, “Moon Over Miami,” now screening at the King’s Theatre. Framed against the tropical beauty of Miami. "Moon Over Miami” features Don Ameehe, Betty Grable, and Robert Cummings in their most delightful and entertaining roles.