TOWN HALL TALKIES

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4501, 14 January 1941, Page 2

TOWN HALL TALKIES

“THERE'S THAT WOMAN AGAIN”

WEDNESDAY, 15th January

“There’s that woman again," —that woman being Sally Eeardon of the “There’s Always a Woman” fame — will he here again and again and again, according to Hollywood advices. Columbia Studios, producers of the popular comedy-mysteries, indicate that the Eeardon adventures will be continued indefinitely, presumably with Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce in the starring roles. “There’s That Woman Again” is the second of the series, with 'Douglas again assaying the chief role os the wife-troubled Bill* Eeardon and Virginia Bruce portraying the troublesome wife, Sally. The new coinedv will be shown at the Tom n Hall tomorrow evening. Alexander Hall, who directed “There’s Always a Woman,” wielded the megaphone on the comedy’s sequel, Gladys Lehman wrote the screen story which Philip G. Epstein, James Edward Grant and Ken England adapted to the screen. Featured in the oast of Theres That Woman Again” a-re Margaret Lindsay, Stanley Ridges, Jonathan Hale and Pierre Watkins.

OUT WEST MYTH THE HARDY'S”

SATURDAY, 18th January

A Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer production of the famous rib-tickling comedy cast in another of their unusual escapades. A splendid picture to take your mind off yourself.

“MR WONG IX CHINATOWN'”

MONDAY, 20th January

A new Boris Karloff thriller, Mr Wong in. Chinatown,” comes to the Town Hall on Monday next. Third of the “James Lee Wong” detective series, based on the Hugh Wiley magazine stories, “Mr AVong in Chinatown again concerns the adventures of the Chinese super-sleuth. This time murder comes uninvited to Ms own house, where Princess Lin Hwa meets a horrible death in las study. Wong rounds up his old friend, Captain Street, of the San Francisco police department, and the hunt is on. The dwarf who lives downstairs from the princess tries to tell W ong something, but he is murdered. Her maid also has Information to impart but she, too, is struck down. Things are getting pretty close to home when AVong himself is kidnapped, just as he learns r Avho the murderer is. And it is up to Captain Street to rescue Wong. How he does so, and how AVong identifies the killer, makes thrilling screen fare. Boris Karloff is excellent as James Lee AVong a character he has twice before portrayed on the screen. Grant Wi there is again seen as Captain Street, and a newcomer, Marjorie Reynolds, is pleasing as Boddy Logan, cub reporter, whe “helps" AVong and Street solve the case. The villainous suspects are Peter George ,Lynu, AViliiam Rove! and Huntly Gordon. The dwarf is played by Little Angelo, and his performance is a masterpiece of pantomine.