AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21150, 19 July 1943, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

Regent.—The delightful programme headed by “The Affairs of Martha” Oads to-night. Rod Skelton returns to the screen as “'The Fox,” the detective character he portrayed •n “Whistling in the Dark,” in iv.iol.luo screamingly funny adventure* film. “Whisl ling in Dixie,” which commences' to-morrow. Skelton and Ann Rutherford, who plays his sweetheart, find themselves enmeshed in murder mystery in an old Southern United States town, and participate in one hi lari ous adventure after another. Majestic.—To-day the feature attraction is “Danny Boy,” a comedy-drama ■ with large helpings of sentimental, evergreen songs and heart-cheering humour against a topical war-time background of blitz night life, featuring a new 11 -year-old discovery. Grant ’Tyler, and Wilfred Lawson. 'The sup porting feature, “The Nurse’s Secret,” is a story of thrills, romance* and comedy featuring Lee Patrick and Regis Toomey. King’s.—Bringing together for the . first Lime two top stars of the screen, Ginger Rogers and Cary 1 Grant, RKO-Radio offers a stirring' glimpse of love against a world at war in Leo Me Carey’s “Once Upon a Honeymoon,’’ which is now screening at the King’s Theatre. Using ns his theme the light-hearted, gay type of romantic sparring for which he is famous, McCarey lias invested his picture with gripping dramatic meaning by providing a background of Nazi world-ambitions.