AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! "WHILE NEW YORK SLEEPS", AND "SHE LOVED A FIREMAN." Those reckless roving reporters, Michael Whalen and Chick Chandler are in again. This time the nonesuch mnvsliounds who were first presented to screen fans in "Time Out For Murder do their sleuthing in "While New York Sleeps/’ the second of 2Uth CenturyFox’s Roving Reporter series, which is showing to-night at the Princess Theatre and involves the boys in a murder so mystifying that it has to be solved twice, fn fact, the boys |get the police on their own trail when they find themselves -in the embarrassing position ol having solved the crime before it was committed —and then find the "victim’ murdered a second time. Others in the cast are Jean Rogers, Robert Kellard, Joan Woodbury, Harold Huber, and Mare Lawrence. * Some of the most spectacular flamefighting scenes ever thrown upon a movie screen are promised in the Warner Bros, melodrama "She Loved a Fireman/’ which is now showing at the Princess Theatre, with Hick bor an as the hero. The climax of th e picture is an immense blaze on a waterfront, with boats as well as land apparatus engaged in it s quenching. Fornn plays a new chum fireman who comes under the command of a hard-boiled captain, portrayed by Robert Armstrong. The two become bitter enemies, even though Dick Jails in love with Bob’s sister, Ann Sheridan. During the waterfront conflagration, Bob is disabled and apparently doomed to death in the flames when Dick, by superhuman efforts, rescues him, and then peace is restored all around Others in the cast include Veda Ann Borg, Eddie Aeuff, May Beatty, and Eddie Chandler. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. "DRAMATIC SCHOOL." The indomitable determination of a poor factory worker to become a second Eleanor Duse is graphically told in "Dramatic School.” which opens on Wednesday at the Princess Theatre, with Luise Rainer, and Paulette Goddard starred in an important cast. REGENT THEATRE. TO-NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. MATINEE WEDNESDAY, 1.45 p.m. "SIXTY GLORIOUS YEARS." The diary kept by Queen Victoria during the whole of her long occupancy of the British throne proved a valuable source of information for producer Horiiri't, Wilcox in the filming of "Sixty Glorious Years/’ the RKO Radio drama in technicolour, starring Anna Neagh' as the sovereign and Anton Walbrook •<s the Prince Consort. Access to the Queen’s journals was not the least of the facilities granted the producer by + lip British Government, as Wilcox was given carte blanche in making camera hots of Royal residences hitherto kept : oviolate so far as reproduction on stage and screen was concerned. But the /neon's diary was a tremendously fruitful asset. She kept her catalogue o daily doings, social and political, with -reat care, noting every incident with painstaking clearness. A large part ol the dialogue in "Sixty Glorious Years” s taken verbatim from the Queen’s record of governmental and domestic aifairs. As a result the picture abounds in authentic details of the most significant era in British history. Anna Neagle ills the role- of Queen Victoria, with Anton WaTTrook portraying the Prince Consort. C. Aubrev Smith is featured as the Duke of Wellington, and Walter Rijla as Prince Ernst of Saxc-ooburg.