EMBASSY THEATRE

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4717, 15 November 1945, Page 1

EMBASSY THEATRE

CURRENT PROGRAMMES i THE MALTESE FALCON” SHOWING TO-NIGHT I The Embassy Theatre’s now feature attraction on Thursday next will be | ‘‘The Maltese Falcon,” starring HumI phrey Bogart. Adapted for the screen from the novel by Dashioll Hammett, author of ‘‘The Thin Man,” the film is a well-concocted mystery drama with a liberal dash of comedy and romance. Warner Bros, have assembled a line cast for the film. Besides Bogart, there is charming Mary Astor in the romantic lead, Gladys George and Lee Patrick to give her some competition with the hero, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstroet, Eiisha Cook Jnr. Jerome Cowan, Barton Mac Lane. “The Maltose Falcon” is one of the most intriguing mystery stories ever w-ritten by the wollknown writer of the ‘‘Thin Man” series. Bogart’s performance as the debonair—but tough—private detective who eventually solves the mystery is said to bo one of his best and Miss Astor does an unusually fine job of the other starring role. ‘‘l THANK YOU” SHOWING SATURDAY Temporarily released from his duties as an R.A.F. Intelligence Olliycr, Murdoch appears in Arthur Askey’s new comedy, ‘‘l Thank You,” by kind permission of the Air Ministry. He and Askey, in the sequences being filmed, pretend to be a butler and ‘‘wife” and inveigle themselves into the household of a rich woman to per- . suade her to put money up for a show, ‘‘Big” and ‘‘Stinker” trying to run a kitchen are comedy highlights of the new production. Askey. once again goes ‘‘feminine” for part of the film, following up on Ids hilarious appearance as “female” lead in “Charley’s (Big-hearted) Aunt.” Since that screen debut as a “woman,” Askey has picked up several tills. “THE MOON IS DOWN” TUESDAY NEXT One of the most eagerly awaited pictures to come out of Hollywood since “The Grapes of Wrath,” opens at the Embassy Theatre on Tuesday next. It is the widely heralded pictuiisation of .7ohn Steinbeck’s “The Moon i s Down.” As a novel “The Moon -is Down” was acclaimed as one of the greatest. Throbbing with the fury of emotions beyonds words, “The Moou is Down,” tells tlie gripping story of a freedomloving people whose hopes, strength and spirit—even under the heel of the conqueror will never be crushed. Theirs is the will to live, and they prove anew that those who won’t bo beaten can’t be beaten. ‘ ‘ GHOST CATCHERS ’ ’ THURSDAY NEXT H there remained any doubt about it before, that these arc unusual times, let it be dispelled for one and all: the now Olson and Johnson motion picture, “Ghost Catchers, 1 ’ has a plot! This unprecedented arrangement is the cquiva lent to sucli things as rivers running uphill, roosters crowing at sunset, or a Keystone comedy cop being thrown at a pie. In “Ghost Catchers” Olsen and Johnson and Universal Studios confuse the audiences oven more than Olson and Johnson ordinarily do with their lack of rhyme and reason, by appearing in a film production, which has a beginning, a middle, and an ending. Indeed, the film lias all the dramatic essentials of a Theatre Guild production, such as a climax, conflict and characterisation. Wanted known that A. E. Tillyshort, Monumental Mason, Anderson’s Bay, Dunedin, visits the Lakes District at regular intervals, and will undertake all classes of monumental work. All work guaranteed. Messages may be left at the Mail office, Queenstown or Arrowtown. ’Phone 23-931, Dunedin.