AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21149, 17 July 1943, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

Maj&sfiCi—TVnight is the last screening for “Road to Happiness” and “She’s My Lovely.” On Monday the feature attraction will be “Danny Boy,” a comedy-drama with largo helping.; of sentimental, evergreen songs and heart-cheering humour against a topical war-time background of blitz night life, featuring a new 11-yonr-old discovery. Grant Tyler, and Wilfred Lawson. The supporting feature, “The Nurse’s Secret,” is a story of thrills, romance and comedy featuring Lee Patrick and Regis Toomey. Regent.—“ The Affairs of Martha” conic**, in these days of stress, as refreshing comedy, demonstrating capable acting, skilled direction, clever material and bright humour. Marsha Hunt portrays the maid. Richard Carlson tho young husband, and Frances Drake is the fiancee. The story has a novel idea behind it, and provides a most entertaining picture. The bright fenturettes include newsreels depicting actions in the Pacific and the survivors of the torpedoed “Centaur.” King’s.—Bringing together for the first time two top stars of the screen, Ginger Rogers and Gary Grant, RKO-Radio offers a stirring glimpse of love against a world at war in Leo McCarey’s “Once Upon a Honeymoon,” which is now screening at the King’s Theatre. Using as his theme the i light-hearted, gay type of romantic sparring for which he is famous, McCarey has invested his picture with gripping dramatic meaning by providing a background of Nazi world-ambitions.