SCREEN GOSSIP

Hutt News, Volume 13, Issue 24, 22 November 1939, Page 2

SCREEN GOSSIP

DE LUXE' . Now Showing: "Invitation to Happiness" (Irene Dunne) and "Five of a Kind" (Dionne Quintuplets.. Commencing Saturday: "Rose of Washington Square" (Alice Faye) and "My Bill" (Kay Francis). Coming Attractions:" Thanks for the Memory" (Bob Hope), "Straight, Place and Show" (Ritz Bros.), "Ex Champ" (Victor McLaglen). KING GEORGE Now Showing: "South Riding' (Edna Best). Commencing Saturday: "Union Pacific" (Joel McCrea and "Popeye Cartoon). Coming Attractions: "Calling Dr. Kildare" (Lew Ayres) "Only Angels Have Wings" (JiJan Arthur). PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE: Now Showing: "Break the News' (with Jack Buchanan and Maurice Chevalier), "They Made Her a Spy" (with Sally Eilers and Allan Lane). Thursday - Friday : 1 ' Mysterious Mr. Moto" (with Peter Lorre) and "Savage Gold ' (Coniinaudei Dyott's Expedition). Saturday-Monday: "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man" (W. C. Fields and Charlie McCarthy). "The Lady Vanishes" (with Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood). "MIDNIGHT" Claudette Colbert, as an American fortune hunter stalking her prey in international society, Don Ameche, as a taxi-driver, who unexpectedly changes her grandiose i plans, and Francis Lederer, as a handsome and gold-dripping Paris playboy—these are the romantic leads in "Midnight,'' Paramount's gay new comedy, which will be on view at the Prince Edward Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday next. Miss Colbert, who is the screen's J chief expert in the field of sophisticated and brittle comedy, has a role tailored especially lor her measurements. She plays "Eve Peabody." I a third-rate' dancer with lirst-rate ambitions, who in one dazzling ( evening meets and falls in love with a hard-boiled taxi-driver, crashes an exclusive party with a pawn ticket as her admission curd, sweep the town's A 1 play-boy off his feet and turns into a "countess" to set along better in a snobbish world! "Eve's" campaign to win herself a wealthy husband takes a hop'eful turn when a Paris businessman. John Barrymore, whom she meets at the party, enlists her aid in restoring domestic happiness to his badly-shaken home. His wife, Mary Astor, is engaged in or flirtation with a handsome playboy, Lederer. If Miss Colbert will make a play for ' Lederer, Barrymore will foot the bills. The arrangement promises to work out well lor both sides, lor .Miss Colbert stands to win the sort of husband she wants, while Barrymore hopes to get back his wife s affections. But the greater Miss Colbert's success the more she wonders why she ran away I'rom the cab-driver, Ameche, who made such a dent in her heart. Although her daring ami cleverness enables her to outwit the "doubting Thomases" who challenge her "title" and her motives, she realises she has been too successful when Lederer proposes to iter. It's now up to Ameche. who arrives at the "countess's" "count" at a Versailles house party, to straighten things out in an unroarious climax. Barrymore, who shows his versatility by dividing his time between comedy, character and dramatic roles, plays the first-named in "Midnight," as the shrewd man-of-the-world who makes use of the French proverb, "cherchcz la femme," to solve his own marital difficulties. In his new picture, he introduces to iilnigoers his bride, the vivacious Elaine Barrie. "SPIUXGTIME IN THE ROCKIES" There . are 3500 people every month; in America alone, to whom Uncle Sam's postmen bring a portrait of Gene Autry. And these 3500 people are significant because they prove to motion picture producers just who is the choice of the people. At the present time, from all indications, Gene Autry ranks among the ten most popular stars on the screen. A mighty tribute to the entertainment prowess of this handsome singing star of the saddle. "Springtime in the Rockies," a thrilling, singing, action-drenched romance of the West, and Gene's \ horse, "Champion," is an import-; ant factor in his screen success., and ! believe it or not, Champ has a good J many fans in his own right, people

who send him Tumps of sugar* and' . beg for halrS from his tail for souvenirs. . , Gene was born down in Tioga, Texas,, a little town of 1000 folks. Sundays he sang in his grandpappy's choir, and he learned to tend cows and spin a lariat week days. He rode in. his first rodeo , when he was 12 and before long he was travelling with a medicine* show, helping to sell corn salve by yodelling* hill-billy ballads. . Growing older, he became a telegraph operator, tooting on his saxophone spare tiines until he was ! "discovered" and brought to Chli cago, where .he made good on a Vadio broadcast. In "Springtime on the Rockies," Gene is seen as a hard-hitting, straight - shooting, lustily-singing ranch foreman who rescues a helpless girl from a thieving gang of desperadoes. Ride the danger trail with Autry for teeming thrills you'll thoroughly enjoy and Jong remember. "CIRCUS GIRL" The band plays and the crowd gasp in amazement at.the daring oi two men and a girl 'way up 'be flying trapeze, where one slip luennt a, crashing death into a cage of lions below. Little did the Dig ii.'c'idence know that the act had developed into a breath-taking fight for the girT's love —that the two men, each dependent upon the other's steady hand for his life, were dei'dly enemies, and that one was almost mad with jealousy. You'll scream with suspense and jump out of your seat with excitement as these th.'e3 flirt with death on the jigli tripeze. That's the sensational climax of "Circus Girl," Republic Pictures' thrill-teaming romance of the "big top," featuring levely June iravis, Bob Livingston and Donald" Cook, with Charlie Murray and Betty Compson. "ROSE Oi WASHINGTON SQUARE" A glorious evening's entertainment awaits you at the De Luxe Theatre in "Rose of Washington Square,'' which opens next Saturday. Tyrone Power and Alice Faye, the rdmantic stars of Irving Ber- | lin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band," are co-starred with A 1 J oison, singing again in his inimitable 4'ay his memory-laden hits ol' yesterday. The story of a woman who ioveu iier man aiid .kept on loving h.m although he tricked her and hurt her and brought iieai'L-breaiv upon them both is thriilingly told in the milestones oi' melody oi the last two decades. "Rose of Washington Square" opens at the close of the World War with A 1 J oison as Ted Cotter, a singing candy butcher in a Fourteenth Street burlesque theatre, who has big-time ideas. He loves Rose Sargent (Alice Faye) and dreams of taking her with him up the ladder of fame. But Rose falls for Bert Clinton, a charming but wayward fellow, played by Tyrone Power. •STRAIGHT, i'LACE AND SHOW" For days the three stand-ins for the Ritz Brothers in their latest L'uth Century-Fox comedy, Damon Itunyon's "Straight, Place and Show/' opening soon at the De Luxe Theatre, had been badgering Director David Butler to give them a spot in the picture. "Straight, Piace and Show," starring the brothers and featuring Richard Arlen, Ethel Merman, Phyllis Brooks, George Barbier and Willie West, is based on a play by Damon Ruuyon and Irving Caesar, it is one of the Movie Quiz 250,000 dollar contest pictures. | "UNION PACIFIC" Cecil 15. De Mille now rates as Hollywood's only legally-licensed railroad operator! The famed producer-director re- , ceived his authority from the Inter- j state Commerce Commission during I the filming of -'his new picture, ' "Union Pacific," opening shortly at I the King George Theatre, and is as fully authorised to run a railroad as if he were the whole board of directors of the "New York Central," "Norfolk and Western" or "Union Pacific" itself. "ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP" A new Max Fleisher super-car-toon, filmed all in technicolour and running a full two reels, will be a special attraction on the "Union Pacific" programme at the King j George Theatre. The picture is Popeye the Sailor in "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp," a Paramount release. In starring Popeye as the hero of the famous story of magic and mystery, Fleischer has used his amazing ' three-dimen-sionai" cartoon stage, introduced in ! the first double-length technicolour ; Popeye, "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor." Olive Oyl and j Bluto, with other Popeye favourites are in the cast.

"CALLING DR. KILDARE" "There's no such thing as a 'come-back' in Hollywood." So declares Lew Ayres, who has slipped in and out of the cinema capital's limelight for more than i nine years, and now» has reached the crest of the wave in the "Dr. Kildare" series, the second of which, "Calling Dr. Kildare," carries on the adventures of the young medical detective, teamed with Lionel Barrymore. It comes soon to the King George Theatre. | The supports include Lana Turner, Laraine Day, Alma Kruger, Marie Blake, Nat Pendleton, Lynne Carver, Walter Kingsford, Bobs Watson, Emma Dunn and Samuel S. Hinds. i