AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21962, 5 March 1946, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

' Regent.—“ Arsenic and Old Race” is the present attraction at the Regent Theatre. It is a Frank Capra production. Its central source of merriment is the habit of two delightful old ladies of putting miserable people “under the sod.” They only do so from purely philanthropic motives, yet are so clever that the practice of murder, unlimited, goes on without any suspicion of these nice old dears. These Brewster ladies are neatly characterised by Josephine Hull and Jean Adair. Majestic.—" Citizen Kane,” which commenced at the Majestic yestordny, is one of tha most compelling and dramatic films in a decade, a flint that sweeps aside screen tradition and convention. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton and Dorothy Contingmoro have the lending roles. The associate feature, ‘‘Fighting Frontiers,” is a rip-roaring western starring Tim Holt. Kings.—" The Princess and the Pirate.” notv screening at the King’s Theatre, presents Bob Hope cavorting on the Spanish Main with huccnneers, a runaway princess arid a map denoting the whereabouts of buried treasure. Hope is Sylvester the Great, a theatrical artist of the quick-change variety en route to the New World, and Virginia Mayo is the princess of vaguely European connection whom he rescues, more by good luck thnn good management, from the clutches of Victor McLaglen, a pirate captain nicknamed for obvious reason The Hook.