ON THE SCREEN

Matamata Record, Volume XX, Issue 2019, 23 March 1939, Page 8

ON THE SCREEN

REGENT, MATAMATA A double feature programme “Wide Open Faces" and “ Air Devils," will be screened at the .Regent Theatre to-night (Thursday) and Friday. Joe E. Brown, Jane Wyman and Allan Baxter take the leading roles in the first picture, a really outstanding comedy. “Air Devils” is a thrilling drama of aviation. On Saturday and Monday “ Saratoga," featuring the late Jean Harlow, with Clark Gable, Lionel Barry.more, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon and Una Merkel, will be screened. This is Jean Harlow’s last picture, and is an exceptional production. ’ CIVIC, PUTAftURU Walt Disney, film cartoon creator, has achieved his greatest success with the full length colour feature, “ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” which the Civic Theatre, Putaruru, in conjunction with RKORadio Pictures, presents at its in-, itial screening to-night at 8 p.m., and to-morrow (Friday) at 3.15 and at 8 p.m. “ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is Walt Disney’s and Technicolour’s most memorable t gift to the screen, : "•

From the pen of the author of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” comes another gripping screen narrative of war-torn youth in a world of chaos, in the new M-G-M picture. “ Three Comrades,”, which screens at the Civic on Saturday and Monday, with a matinee on Saturday (Show Day) at 4 p.m. . Robert Tyylor and Margaret Snllavan provide a poignant romance, with Franchot Tone and Robert Young also. There is also a supporting programme of special interest, with further scenes of the Sydney Boy Scout Jamboree, a Pete Smith speciality, “Modelling for Money,' a Robert Bencliley comedy, “How to Raise a Raby,” a cartoon and news.

“Varsity Show,” a musical comedy along altogether new lines, and possessed of a sparkling cast, is the attraction set down for Wednesday and Thursday.