AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21923, 18 January 1946, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

Regent.—“ Women Aren't Angels,” which commences its season at the Regent to-day, was designed, produced and is to he exhibited for one purpose only—that of providing cinema goers with light wholesome but enjoyable entertainment with tho accent on humour. Starring Robertson llare and Alfred Drayton, this film is British comedy at its bets and wittiest. Indeed, it is reminiscent of “Rookery Nook” and “My Wifo's Family”—not in theme, but in the spontaneous lnugliter it draws forth from patrons. Tho supporting programme is headed by a “March of Time” of absorbing interest. “Uncle Sam, -Mariner.”

King’s.—“ Tho Enchanted Cottnge,” acclaimed in the United States as “one of the most touching anil beautiful love stories ever brought to tiie screen,’’ commences at the King’s to-day, starring Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, and Herbert Marshall. This R.K.0.-Radio film is a new version of a great stage success. Robert Young plays the part of a crippled bomber pilot who, unable to endure the pity of his family nml friends, returns to a lonely cottage in New England. The miracle that romance works through the influence of a village girl is touchingly developed.

Majestic.-—No expense was spared to make “Tiie Fighting Seahees” ono of tho most authentic as well as one of the most thrilling war pictures ever made. Patrons have an opportunity to ho transplanted bodily to the jungle islands of the South Pacific, where tho construction battalions operated. John Wayne, Dennis O’Keefe and Susan Hayward have top hilling in the film. The associate feature is “A Scream ill the Dark.'*