AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. TO-NIGHT FINALLY. “EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT/’ A completely different type of pic- . turo for Sonja Henie, in this 20th Ceni ' tury-Fox film Darryl F. Zanuck presents the famed skating star in a com. ! bi'ned dramatic and comedy role. Sonja's amazingly developed acting ability 'makes her perfectly at home in thi story and of course there are sequences in which Sonja disports not only on skates bat on the sheer, shimmering ski ' slides of the Alps. Although Soxija’s role jis essentially dramatic, light comedy I touches are injected when Ray, Milium; ; and Robert Cummings,. n s two rival i newspaper reporters, fall for her and [fight for her love, as well as for one 1 of the biggest stories of the. day.; j Supports include Paramount Aii Mail News Fox News, “Donald’s Dog Laundry”, Disney cartoon,' “Tempest Over Tunis,” Mediterranean Travel: | ’“Fashion Forecast,’b colour ;e' ,“Hook Line and Terry town. , TUESDAY ONLY. “ASK A POLICEMAN.”: j , ■ j | The well-known British' ’Comedian, | Will Hay, ably hindered Moore’'Mar- ■! riott and Graham ’ Moffatt ' : li'fis ! bltifidj ored through mahv public’’services,'ln j the G.B.D. attraction,' v “’A’sW a ..T’oliceI man,” which will be presented^ at 1 'the Regent Theatre on the three do their best to ruin the'local rural constabulary, . and here ' they ’/hake’ an hilarious digressiim into" what /they., imagine to be the realm! pf the super-hat-ural. As members} 1 of the police force !in a village that has had no crimp for ten years five weeks and four days they are faced with the necessity to justify their by no means miserable existence, and to do this they endeavour, blissfully unconscious of; the fact; that the village is a hot-bed of smuggling, to create an artificial “crime wave.” They soon find thax, there .us a real one in full swing.