KING GEORGE THEATRE

Hutt News, Volume 15, Issue 14, 3 September 1941, Page 3

KING GEORGE THEATRE

"A LITTLE BIT OP HfiAVEN." ( - ilong| th'(6 same lines * • as "]&s a pattern' > a lilt and ; ,Gloria** Jtftq as a star, Universale L "A Little Bit of Heaven" comes to' the King George Theatre. Producer Joe Pasternak, who introduced Gloria in the . previous film, is also producer of ,"A Little Bit of Heaven," ih which the. 12-. jrear-old star has a role similar to ! her "Under-Pup" title part, ! Story of the new picture, another ; ' potential hit from the producer of y -eight straight Deanna Durbin successes as "Well as "The' Under.-Pup," presents Gloria as l an East Side girl who becomes a ra,dio singing - itar. Her rise to fame causes family troubles" solved- only after Gloria "losefc'' hef , ' <l votce and temporarily I' relinquishes her career. :j < Miss; Jean sings five ntftnoers, including an impressive finale rendition at< "Dawn 0 f Lovfc" ("Eli, Eli"), With a. 'huge choral and or- ;r chestral background. ~ ■ \ "THE J > H|LAI)^I»I^A If you want to laugh lonfc.'loud, and often, take' a tip and fall to see Gary''Gratot, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart in. "The ; Philadelphia ,Story," the conftdy of ■the year/ which opens Friday at uie King George Theatre. It presents a d&zzling " new as a comediemftTrf rank, with versatile Qrant and Stewart as her gay companions in a picture that is ' fresher, wittier and brighter than any of recent memory. f The stars are perfectly cast and formly excellent, as are the featured players. < ,|h ~'y « .-« ' »' • THMW' WEDNESDAY," THURSDAY, FRIDAY "DANCE, GIRL, DANCE." Highlighted with lavish daifce and song qumbqrs,;- this stirring drama of backstage life from Vicki Baum's pen co-stars Maureen O'Hara, as the ambitious little dancer; Louis Hayward, as the bewildered. scion of wealth, and Lucille Ball as the 1 ' other dancer who gets a gleam in her eye at the sigit of any man with a Wealthy bankroll. Virginia Field is castM&Sjt the wife. j PLUS "LADDIE." The famous staff of Gene Strat-ton-I'orter now to the screen as an RKO Rasfe : picture with Tim 1 Holt, .Virginia Gilmore,. Joan Carroll and Spring in the leading roles. i 'i SATURDAY, MONDAY, 'Ttffe&DAY. • "Bad Little Angel" Weidter, amazing, little aetfess of "The Women" West with ' the Hardys," and Gene Reynolds, who will be remembered in "Boys Town" and v "!They Shall Have Music." Virginia plays a little orphanage waif Vho through her | | faith and course changes the lives I ; of a group of livable people. , < * i i . - "POWER DIVE." If you're looking for a way in which to test your flying courage, and your air nerves cabstand it and you want to know what it feels to hurtle towards "the earth at the dizzy speed of miles per hour, here's the answer to your search. Set your course for the De Luxe Theatre thik Saturday,' ivbere you can occupy a comfortable position ■ behind' the stick throughout every blood-pounding flight in "Power fipe." Paramount's thrilling s'ky drama. * t • .i '< 1 'V' ' ?RINCE EDWARD .THEATRE t ' $ * f ' NOW &HOWrad George Formby' in "It's in the Air," the greatest comedy success in his- cafeer. And Charlie Chan, the screen's favourite; detective appears in, ''Ci.ty.ii}. DarJtness.'' THURSDAY AND FRIDAY "THE DEVIL'S PIPELINE." Richard Arlen and Andy Devine observe their tenth screen co-ap-pearance in Univereal's new action drama, "The Devil's ' Pipeline." Throttling intrigue on . a tropical island is the task confronting the two stars in the new film. — PLUS — "Spy for a Day"—which deals with the ludicrous, exciting and dramatic adventures Gates, likeable, inoffensive country rustic who is captured jfrortt during the last war and nearly shot as a German spy. It stars Duggie Wakefield. SATURDAY ASD sloilßAY. "ALL THIS, AND HEAVEN TOO." "All This, And Heaven Too," the brilliant novel" by. ; JtiWhel Field, which has been (tow of the bestcelling books of the decade, now comes to the screen in all its dramatic essence with Bette Davis and Charles Boyer in the starring roles. Directed by Anatole Litvak from the screen play by Casey Robinson, based on Miss Field's novel, "All This, And Heaven*,Too'* 'is a deepstirring romance' based ''on actual events in the life ot <an ancestress of Rachel Field, , The film marks the momentous ' first ' meeting of Bette Davis and Boyer as a co-starring team Jeffrey Lynn,, Barbara O'Neil,. Virginia Weidjer, Henry Daniell, Walter Hampden, GeorgeCoulo|iris head the featured supporting cast.