AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. TO-NIGHT ONLY. “ASK A POLICEMAN.” >. The well-known 'British Comedian, ■AVill Hay, ably hindered by. Moore Marriott and Graham Moflatt lias blundered through; many public services. In the G.B.D. attraction- “Ask a Police- ( j man,” which will be presented at the Regent Theatre on Tuesday, the three 1 do their best to ruin the local rural 1 constabulary, find here they make an Miilhrioiis digression into what they imagine to be the realm of the super-nat-ural. As members of the police force in a village that has had no crime 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 that there is a real one ih full swing. No screening Wednesday. Theatre given, for Patriotic purposes. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. “GREEN LIGHT.” | Not so long ago “Grech LigJit” stood I at the head of, the list of best-selling (.novels', of it’s season'. Lavishly produced | under the ; clirccttion of Frqnk Borzage | for Warner. Bros, the , picturisation of this Lloyd C. Douglas masterpiece stepped into the front.,rank of distinctive .niotjoii, pictures and ; Las ropiained greater than the booh.. A more than qompptent cast includesv< Errol, Flynn, Anita, Louise,.. Margaret Lindsay, Sir j Cedric fjardwieke, Walter rAjieL Henry O’Neill; Spring Byington,- Granville*; Bates and Erin O’Brien .Mo,ore. The;, storv of the heroic young doctor who sacrifices his promising career for an older doctor’s mistake is superbly translated to the screen.