AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21980, 26 March 1946, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

Regent.—For those who like their picture entertainment sheer unadulterated slapstick there is much hilarious entertainment in the British picture "Demobbed,”’ a subject which has a topical interest all over the world just now. The sketch plot involves the demobilisation of four worthies in khaki identifiable to music hall fans in Britain as Norman Evans, Nat Jackloy, Dan Young and Tony Dalton, who, instead of separating and going their own way once clear of the army, form n unit that provides fun and frivolity. Majestic.—Telling a highly dramatic and humon story, “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" deals with the one great love in the life of England's famous nueen. The role of Elizabeth is one which Bette Davis was destined to play. Side hy side with her strides Errol Flynn ns Lord Essex. It is the type of role precisely suited to him—that of a dashing soldier, victorious in defeat, irresistible in all adventures of the heart. King’s In the film now showing at the King's Theatre, the season of which has been extended, Betty Smith’s "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” a great and new kind of motion picture is seen. Seldom before has any motion picture so probed the depths of the hearts of real, flesh-and-hiood people. Seldom lias the screen been so filled with such richness, tenderness and joyous understanding as is revealed in 20th Century-Fox’s beautiful filmisntion of this best-seller of best-sellers. “A Tree Grown in Brooklyn.” is the perfect filming of the novel that has made millions laugh, cry and cheer.