AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22438, 19 September 1947, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

Regent.—Add "Cheyenne,” Warner Bros.’ new super-Western which opens today, to the list of outstanding films which record the thrilling saga of the settling of America's great Northwest. It hletids successfully all the elements that make up an exciting outdoor drama—vicious gun-play, stirring hand-to-hand fights, romance, comedy and breath-taking outdoor sequences. Starring such film favourites as Dennis Morgan. Jane Wyman, Janis Paige and Bruce Bennett, “Cheyenne” meets the demands of the most exacting Western film fan, and maintains the high standard set. by "Sail Antonio,” “Dodge City” and "Santa w e Trail.” Majestic.—" Docks of New York, starring the East Side Kids, and “Talk About a Lady” conclude tonight. Red Skelton provides a feast of laughter tomorrow in the M.G.M.’s new comedy, "The Show-Off.” He gives a lecture oil how to wash a baby. He gives a demonstration on how to drive a car. He does a snappy rhumba, plays a piano and sines, and his quiz programme is a comedy high-light. Others in the cast are Marilyn Maxwell. Marjorie Main, Virginia O'Brien and “Rochester.” The fenturettos include a Pete Smith novelty and a "Crime Does Not Pay" short . , King.—There iB a definite period charm about “The Magic Bow." tiie British picture now at the King's Theatre. This is ill brief the story so far as is known of the outstanding episodes in tiie life of the great Paganini, the finest violinist the world has ever known, and renowned composer of difficult music for hie instrument. To some people the most remarkable feature of this fascinating film is the shadow violin playing of Stewart Granger. The real performer in Yehudi Menuhin, but so marvellously have those sequences in which lie has to play some extremely beautiful music been mimicked by the actor that it is difficult not to imagine that he is the real performer.