AMUSEMENTS
Majestic.—Today’s programme is a comedy treat from start to finish. Laurel and Hardy are the stars of a full length comedy-feature entitled “Way Out West.” They sing, they dance, they're the terror of the wildest outlaws, hut they’re filling the west with laughter. In addition, Danny Kaye is seen in a two-reel comedy, “A Dime a Dance.” Newsreels and fcaturettes complete a very laughable programme. King s.—*‘Mv Dear Secretary,” the romantic comedy which commences at the King’s Theatre tomorrow, is good fun, ns there is plenty of action and the people engaged are bright and personable. They are La mine Day. Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Helen Walker and Rudee Vallee. It tells of a novelist with whom a charming young girl falls in love. She becomes bis secretary, and persuades him that his lost confidence will return, and at the same time sets to work on a book of her own. This forms the framqwork of a sparkling comedy. Regent.—With the crew and passenger list Of M.G.M.’s new Technicolour musical. “Luxury Tuner,” containing such illustrious names as George Brent, . Jane Powell, Lfturltz Melchior, Frances Gifford, Marina Koshetr. and Xavier Cugat and his orchestra, you can be sure of a colourful cargo of romance. laughter and song. Although there is romantic suspense and considerable laughter in this plot, the story of “Luxury Liner” is focused chiefly on the large talents of its principals and there is hardly ft moment without a delightful musical interlude.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23024, 15 August 1949, Page 7
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244AMUSEMENTS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23024, 15 August 1949, Page 7
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