AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE.

TO-NIGHT FINALLY.

“CURTAIN CALL” AND “THE “FIGHTING GRINGO”.

Dealing in amusing as "’i'll as dramtaic fashion with the trials and tribulations of a small town, wnuld-l>o authoress when sho trios to crash Broadway ■ “Curtain Call,” is said to embody all tho ingredients of first-class entertainment. [featuring an exc( I lent east of dramatic and comedy favourites headed by. Barbara Bead, Alan Mowbray. .Helen Vinson. Donald Macßrido aim John .Archer, the UKO Radio film is said to bo uniqimin that it unfolds the myriad derails behind the launching of a big Broadway show. Barbara Read is ideally cast as a country girl burning with literary ambitions. When her first effort is purchased by a New York producer, she promptly forsakes her smalltown hoy friend, goes to the big city and her career. However, she is unaware of the fact that her hopeless play has been purchased with the idea of bringing a temperamental; stal- to terms. Another chapter of Western history is presented in George O’Brien’s new outdoor drama. .“The Fighting Gringo.” Tt deals with unscrupulous land-thieves who forced owners of Spanish grants to abandon their land, and with one group of a band who made their living by hiring out their guns. The films presents O’Brien in a role somewhat different from his usual characterisations that of a Robin Hood vagabond. Included in the cast are Liipita . Tovar, Lucio Villegas, William Roylc, Glen Strange and Leßoy Mason'. ,

'SATURDAY, MATINEE AND NIGHT, MONDAY. “FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS.” When he returned from making a pic-> turn in London, Ray Mil land talked enthusiastically of a new continental film personality who is becoming a “rave” abroad. He’s Jim Gerald, a French comedian who plays a character role with Milland and his co-star. Cinderella Girl Ellen Drew, in Paramount’s screen version of,“French Without Tears,?’ play- . wright/Jf-prenco B,attigan’fi London stage success: M. Genikl.-according to Mi.land, isiiuoninncntal. individual with om, of the most pleasing ■.personalities he ever has/enepuptemlv Bile’s wide enough fpr two men/’; said Millahd. “He lias p huge,!, roly. : poly face, • lobster red from exposure Jo•• sun. and wiiid, which is almost continuously wreathed in smiles. He uses an: f outsize fountain pen and a i can as thick as a child’s wrist. And Ids sense .of humour is prodigious too.” A second French appearing in the cast is Janine Darcey a vivacious brunette.