AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22626, 1 May 1948, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

Majestic.—Universal-International's “Pirates of Monterey/' co-starring Maria Montez and Rod Cameron, screens today. The story is about California of 1840—before it became a part of the United States —when. Spanish royalists tried to overthrow the Mexican rule. Miss Montez portrays a Spanish girl who goes from Mexico to Monterey to meet her fiance, Philip Reed. However, Rod Cameron, as a swashbucking gringo, enters the scene and provides fuel for a healthy love triangle. Ihe featurettes include a musical, a cartoon, a travel film, a monkey comedy, the Government Review, and the latest Metro News. Regent.—“ Stallion Road/’ co-starring Reagan, Alexis Smith and Zachary Scott, is the present feature at the Regent Theatre. The picture, based on Stephen Longstreet's best selling novel of horsebreeding in California, tells a heartwarming story of people who love horses, and of a triangle that almost ruined the lives , of the three people concerned. Also screening at the sessions will he the Technieolour film of the Royal wedding produced by J. Arthur Rank.

King’s.—Convent life in the high Himalayas is the set scene of "Black Narcissus,” the film which re-introduces that clever actress Deborah Kerr to notice. She figures in this picture, which is being screened nt the King’s Theatre, as Sister Clodagh, a young Irish nun, who has been elevated to the position of Mother Superior to a convent school established at the request of the ruling prince. Others in the picture include David Fairer, Sabu and Jean Simmons. The Royal Wedding (coloured) pictures also will be screened at the King’s. .... ~ “Tony Draws a Horse. —lt is seldom that the dominating character of a play is not seen upon tho stage in the course of the performance, but such is the case with that sparkling comedy “Tony Draws A Horse to be presented by the Gisborne Repertory Society on May 3 and 4 at the Opera House. To learn just how this is achieved one must see the performance, but a most amusing set of circumstances is introduced by Leslie Storm to enable him to exploit the possibilities of such a plot. The witty dialogue and amusing situations are combined with swift movement, and the strong cast assembled by the society is making every effort to ensure that none of the humour is lost in the local presentation.