AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21632, 8 February 1945, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

Majestic.—"flung Ho!” is based on tljo factual records of the famed Carlson’s Raiders, the 21 0 daring “leather-necks” \yljo stormed Makin Islands in the South Pncifjc and killed every Jap there. Randolph Scott ixirtraya Colonel Thorwald. screen prototype nf Lt. Col. Evans F. Carlson. The surprising adventures of three Merchant M a rinds are comically enacted in the sprightly musical comedy, “Hi ’Ya Sailor." j Regent. —“ Yankee Doodle Dandy” ncre-|s finally to-day. Introducing a new’ caniile star and reuniting Roddy McDowall mill Donald Crisp,-the son and father in "How Green Was My Valley,” M-G-M’s “Lassie Come Home” bringht comedy, heart throbs and drama to the Regent where it opens tomorrow. Filmed entirely in Technicolour it deals with the adventures of a beautiful collie that travels a thousand miles to find and rejoin its young master. It was adapted from the last story of Eric Knight, author of “This Above All.” The cast includes Dame May Whitty, of "Mrs. Miniver" fame, Edmund Gwenn, Nigel Bruce and Elsa Lnnchester. King’s.—Dick Powell has the leading part, in “It Happened To-morrow," commencing a season to-day at the King’s Theatre. The humorous- plot is based mainly on the mysterious fact that Dick Powell receives a copy of the newspaper the day before it is published, so that he finds himself in possession of an unerring prophetic power. The tangled events unravel to a surprise climax after the phantom newspaper predicts his own death.