Cinema News

Grey River Argus, 18 March 1941, Page 6

Cinema News

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TYRONE POWER AND LINDA DARNELL STARRED IN “DAYTIME WIFE.” Tyrone Power stars with lovely Linda Darnell, the new “find,” who has won top billing with her second screen appearance in “Day-time Wife.” Screen fans will delight in seeing Tyrone in the type of light comedy role in which he excels. He is a good fellow married to a charming wife, but he is in trouble up to his neck because there’s something about a secretary! Tyrone smashes across the gayest, most intriguing performance of his career in portraying the hilarious goings-on of a husband who goes whistling under the wrong balcony. The film gives Linda Darnell the opportunity to create a real sensation and previewers agree that she does so. She is the little dark-eyed actress who was the hit of “Hotel For Women.” Featured in the cast of “Day-time Wife ’ are Warren William, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie, and Joan Davis —all of whom are famous for this type of gay story. It opens on the second anniversary celebration of Tyrone and Linda, but Tyrone is not there. He has had to “work late at the office!” When the gay party swarms downtown to drag the “worker“ from his den they find the office deserted and then the fun begins. There is a secretary in it, of course, but Linda

is not going to give up her husband ( too easily. So she decides to find out what secretaries have that wives have not, and gets a job. A delicious situation results when Linda’s boss takes her to a dinner party to meet and “talk business” with Tyrone and his secretary. Full of charm and wit and gaitey, “Daytime Wife” is film entertainment for everyone. “THE MAN THEY COULDN’T HANG.” Dealing with the scientific Theory of bringing the dead back to life is the theme of the new horror spectacle, “The Man They Coul3 Not Hang,” starring Boris Karloff. The newest film to star the titan of terror i s one of the most compelling and fascinating tales of the phantom half-world between death and hfe ever to be screened. Supported by a cast which includes such players as Roger Pryor, Lorna Gray and Robert Wilcox, “The Man They _ Could Not Hang” endows Karloff with the greatest opportunity he has ever

liad to chill the veins of his fans. Mr Karloff is seen as a great scientist who discovers a means of restoi mg the dead to life. Almost ready to announce his achievement to the world, he is arrested and convicted of murder. His own invention is used to restore Karloff to fife after his execution and he emerges from the grave alive and well. However, a terrible change has taken place within the soul of the greathearted scientist. From a humanitarian he has changed into a horrifying creature of sheer intellectual cruelty, without heart or mercy. a romance between the scientist's The thrilling drama' is heightened by daughter, played by Lorna Gray, and an alert young newspaperman, played by Robert Wilcox.

“20,000 MEN A YEAR.” With the nation’s college youth taking to the skies, thousands strong as a result of the intensive national civilian training programme of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the thrilling new air drama, “20,000 Men a Year,” takes on a timely significance. Featuring Randolph Scott, Preston Foster and Margaret Lindsay at the top of a cast including Mary Healy, Robert Shaw, George Ernest Jane Darwell, Kane Richmond ’and Maxie Rosenbloom, the film is said to be as electrifying as a power dive and a highly romantic love story as well. Inspired by today’s greatest aviation exploit, this thrilling story is told through tne eyes of the men who give these students wings. The locale is a small a.rport where a typical CAA college group is undergoing training an there is drama, romance and adventure to fire the imagination. NEWS FROM ALL STUDIOS. A son has just been born to Mary Maguire, the Australian film star, who is living in London. He will be christened Michael Robert. Her husband, Captain Gordon-Canning, was released from Brixton Prison under escort to see the baby. As a member of The Link, a pro-Nazi organisation founded in London in 1937, cap-

tain Gordon-Canning was interned a few months after the outbreak of, war. He married Mary in August, 1939. ****** In the script of Alexander Korda’s film, “Lady Hamilton,” there are three separate sequences in which King Ferdinand, Queen Caroline of Naples, and their children appear. According to the research department, the royal couple had seventeen children! As there is a time lapse of several years between sequences, three youngsters have to be selected for each role. In all, fifty-one children will be needed, and by the time the final sleection has been made the harassed casting .director estimates he will have interviewed nearly a thousand applicants! Because he demanded money with threats from film star Betty Grable, James Thompson, known as the “Singing Waiter,” was arrested last week in Philadelphia. It is asserted that he wrote to

Betty demanding £2,656. She immediately got in touch with the police. * * * * * • An unusual ad. in the “lost and found” column of a Hollywood paper wa's noticed the other evening. It read: “Lost —Grey White Mongrel Female Cat Strayed in Vicinity of Universal Studio. Needed to Complete Film Scenes. Generous Reward.” It seems that this cat wandered on to the Universal lot some months ago. A director decided to use her for a couple of scenes in a picture. On completion of her first day’s “work” the cat vanished, leaving the unfortunate director with the expensive choice of delaying his scene until she returned or reshooting the prevoius day's work with a new cat!