EMBASSY THEATRE

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4725, 17 January 1946, Page 1

EMBASSY THEATRE

CURRENT PROGRAMMES ‘LIFE BEGINS AT EIGHT-THIRTY’ j SHOWING TO-NIGHT ’ $ 1 ' II you thrilled, as almost everyone did, to the tender pathos and heart - i warming humour of “The Pied Piper” ! it is certain that an equally enchanting cinema treat awaits you in ‘‘Life j Begins at Eight-Thrty.” For, besdes | bringing back to the screen that ausj tere master of merriment, Monty | Woolley, this 20th Century-Fox enterj tainment windfall co-stars Ida Lupino, j fragile mistress of the drama, with Cornel Wilde, exciting new discovery, as her romantic vis-a-vis, and also features one of the really well-rounded casts of the season. The film promises to be another happy combination of ingratiating humour and trenchant drama. ‘‘XJNCENSORED” 1 SHOWING SATURDAY ‘ ‘ Unconsorcd, ” starring Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert and Griffith Jones is a G-B-D attraction based on Oscar E. Millard’s book. Belgium under the Nazi heel is the grimly topical subject of the story of the heroic band of Belgians who produced a national paper for loyal Belgian subjects under the nose of the Gestapo. Eric Portman, the well known actor who has won high praise as the Üboat captain in ‘‘49th Parallel,” plays Andre, a Brussels cabaret artist whose ‘‘underground” work Is that of contact man between editor and printer. Lovely Phyllis Calvert, fresh from her co-starring role with Robert Donat in ‘‘The Young Mr Pitt,” plays the part of the daughter of the newspaper editor. Griffith Jones has the unusual role of the Belgian priest, also engaged in the patriotic cause. The background of the film is Brussels, 1939 and onwards, the panorama of a great European city under the invader. ‘‘CHINA GIRL” TUESDAY NEXT A beautiful girl, defying violence and terror, and a daring Yank, flying for victory, provide an exciting romantic adventure story against a flaming background of war in 20th Century-Fox’s ‘‘China Girl.” Gone Tierney and George Montgomery, teamed for the first time, are costarred with Lynn Bari, 115 pounds of j curves, erockedness and kisses caught in the battle-scarred East. Victor McLaglcn, who tops the featured cast has the rugged type of role that suits ! him best. The burly veteran appears I as a two-fisted soldicr-of-fortune who ! poddies his loyalty to the highest bid- ' dor. The exciting climatic sequences arc said to have some of the most realistic scenes ever filmed. ‘‘SECRET COMMAND” THURSDAY NEXT If they gave out Academy Oscars in Hollywood for the greatest variety of characters portrayed by an actor, Pat O’Brien would win hands down' In thirteen years on the screen, Pat I has played men of more than 35 different callings, from circus clowns to clergyman, and done repeat engagements on almost all of them. However, it remained for his cur- j rent Columbia picture, ‘‘Secret Com- j mand, ” to give him the roughest and toughest of them all. He plays- a pile- ! buck, which is a combination rigger, ' pile-driver, rough carpenter and 90 per cent. mule. The occupation of pilebucking is so tough that insurance companies won’t have anything to do with the men who follow it as a livelihood. The film is based on the story in the ‘‘Saturday Evening Post’ and is said to bo one big thrill from beginning to end.