AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22872, 16 February 1949, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS

Regent.—Judy Garland, Gene Kelly and Cole Porter are the three big names associated with M.G.M.’s Technicolour musical, “The Pirate,’ with the songs sung by Miss Garland, danced by Kelly, and written expressly for the stellar duo by Porter. A swashbuckling tale of a z*omantic girl who dreams of a bold pirate and finally wins a facsimile thereof for a husband, the story is laid against # eye-filling settings of a Caribbean island in the nineteenth century. The supporting cast is topped, by Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, George Zucco and the dancing Nicholas Brothers. Majestic.—Attention is forcefully focussed on a topic in the moving film drama, “Dangerous Years,” which starts at the Majestic. This well-con* structed production grapples with juvenile delinquency, taking its departure from the all-important theory, too easily by-passed, that parents are responsible in the main for the crimes of their children. The supporting feature. “Fabulous Suzanne,” a bright comedy, star* Barbara Britton and Otto Kruger. King’s.—lrish hearts will yearn over the film “The Hills of Donegal,” which commenced at the King’s yesterday, especially as it introduces not only Dinah Sheridan, who has much personal charm, but Brenda Clegg, the clever Irish boy actor, and a team of Gaelic dancers. The story is about Eileen Hannay, a rising young singer, who gives up the prospect of a career on the platform to marry _ Terry O’Keefe. Unexpectedly Eileen has inherited property in Ireland. How Eileen sets about restoring the place, and how complications arise make interesting entertainment.