AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. TO-NIGHT. “BROADWAY SERENADE.” Taking its place at the top of this season’s musicals, .“Broadway Serenade,” starring Jeanette MacDonald, comes to the screen to-night at the. Princess Theatre. Not in recent months lias Miss MacDonald had the vocal, or dramatic opportunities that this new production affords her. Rich in elaborate stqge numbers, tempered with a good down-to-earth , story revolving about W girl who climbs from singing in cheap night clubs to musical comedy stardom. “Broadway Serenade’’ con'tains every conceivable element of entertaiument. Tile songs, sung by the star, range, in type, from liiite of the (Gay Nineties f through grand opera selections from La 4 Boheme and Madame Butterfly, and on to top tunes .if to-day. “For Every Lovely Heart,’’ “One Look at You” and “Time Changes Everything’’ will be current sensations. In his role of Miss Mac>> Donald’s composer-pianist \ husband, Lew Ayfes demonstrates why lie hat. beep able to leap to near stardom in a few : short, months. Jli's perform-, ance; sincere, land .tempered ■ ■ with aj^ihpdthetic;reserve.which makes, his teaming 'with the star one of the happiest/combinations to: idhte. Comedy in - splfti'three ways , between Frank] Mprgan, as a Broadway producer, Virginip, : Grey‘ And Rita Johnson, chorus gifisvwhmiyie; for 1% attentions. An in--1 testing third point to the romantic is provided- by lan Hunter arppU Shean, as ; thej old Bavarian; ! i'pHrst who befriends’ Ayres, give ap excellent character portrayal. Other supporting players are William Gargan. i Franklin Pangborn, Kitty McHugh and Esther’ Dale) *' V SUNDAY 8.30 p.m. y. ?t‘ "A, . _ “LET US LIVE.” i At the Princess 'Theatre on Sunday evening Maureen O’Sullivan, Henry Fonda, and Ralph Bellamy will be seen in “Let Us Live,” A story that might have happened to’you! A deep emotional experience.’ ; COMMENCING MONDAY^ John Garfield in.“ Blackwell’s Island.’)’ 1 “One Hour To Live”, starring Charles Bickford and Doris Nolan, \ REGENT THEATRE. TO-DAY, TO-NIGHT, MONDAY, ii AND TUESDAY. “STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE.” A great actor in a great picture is the treat in store for Hokitika when Darryl F. Zanuck’s production of “Stanley and Livingstone” opens tomorrow at the Regent Theatre. It’s another masterful performance by Spencer Tracy, as Stanley, man of ; super courage,- the most heroic, adventure of all time. Starred with Tracy are Nancy . Kelly and Richard Greene,* heading an outstanding cast which includes Waltei Brennan Charles Coburn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke (as Livingstone), Henry Hull and Henry Travers. Three years in tlie making, shot in the actual Afri- , can locale, the story of “Stanley and Livingstone’’ was written for the screen by Phillip Dunne and Julien Jasephson.