AMUSEMENTS
Kings,—Johnny Weismuller’s "Tarzan” series has been extended (o include "Tarzan anq the Mermaids,” which is now showing. Tar£an catches a real mermaid in one of his nets. She is Mara, who has escaped from a pearlfishing village to avoid marriage to a villian who poses as the god Balu. Mara is captured by Balu’s emissaries, who deliver her to Balu, but Tarzan pursues the party and succeeds in releasing the girl and exposing Balu as a fraud. Weismuller is supported by Brenda Joyce, Linda Christian, John Lau* rent, and Fernando Wagner. Regent.—" Song of My Heart” is rich in the immortal music of Peter Tchaikovsky, upon whose life the film is based. This attraction, which introduces the Swedish star Frank Sundstrom, concludes tonight. Tomorrow Warner Bros, present a revival of the recordbreaking vaudeville and Variety show in "This Is The Army.” Advance interest in this film suggests the advisability of booking to secure seats. Majestic —Another film that the whole family will love is "Swiss Family Robinson,” starring Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best. Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt and Terry Kilburn. Spectacle, drama, shipwreck, hurricanes and wild animals are blended In the adventures of the Robinson family shipwrecked on a desert island. The featurettes include two newsreels' and a two-reel comedy.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22852, 24 January 1949, Page 7
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