AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23025, 16 August 1949, Page 7

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, but they’re filling the west with laughter. In addition, Danny Kaye is seen in a two-reel comedy, "A Dime a Dance.” Newsreels and featurettes complete a very laughable programme. King s.—“My Dear Secretary,” the romantic comedy which commences at the King’s Theatre today, is good fun, as there is plenty of action and the people engaged are bright and personable. They are Laraine 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 his secretary, and persuades him that his lost confidence will return, and at the same time sets to work oil a book of her own. This forms the framework of a sparkling comedy. Regent.—With the crew Rnd passenger list of M.G.M.’s new Teehnicolour musical, “Luxury Liner,” containing such illustrious names ns George Brent, Jane Powell, Lauritz Melchior. Frances Gifford, Marina Koshetz 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 a moment without a delightful musical interlude.