AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21604, 5 January 1945, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

Recent. —Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne make a welcome reappearance as the stars of Metro-Cioldw.vn-Mayer’s production, "A Huy Named Joe,” commencing today at the Repent. Tracy lias done no better work than in this romantic story of an unusual pilot with a philosophy of lifij that will appeal to all. It is a role entirely dilferent from that which Rave Tracy such tm*at opportunities in "Boys’ Town." and shows him once more to be complete master of his art. Majestic.—" Mission to Moscow” is the heartening story of a clear-visioned American \mhassador, Joseph K. Davies, played by Waller Huston, who was sent to learn tiie truth about Russia. What the Ambassador saw appears on tiie screen as his own eyes saw it. Churchill, Stalin, Litvinov, Schacht, Laval. Molotov, and many other such widely-known futures, are duplicated j for the screen in an unprecedented feat of I casting, to project with startliiijt realism the arnazinp "true story" of our time. j King’s.—A story of the nay life at the end 1 of the last century is screened in the Tcchni- I colour film "Heaven Can Wait," which com- S meuces at the Kind’s to-day. Gene Tierney j and Don Amoche are in the principal roles, i and they are supported by a bin cast of well- B known artists, including: Charles Coburn, I Marjorie Main, ami Laird Orepnr. Playim; I the role of an heiress who is having her first I taste of tin.* Iniphter side of New York life j <;,-nr Tierney accepts the love of the irre- j sponsible soil of a rich Now York family. I and married him. j