ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 100, 28 March 1939, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “HOLIDAY.” With an all-star cast, headed by Cary Grant, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton and Katharine Hepburn, “Holiday” shows all the symptoms of being a lirstclass show. “Holiday” is the story of modern youth challenging an older generation. The boy is perfectly willing to work hard at his career, but only until such lime as his career has reached the stage where he can retire. And if he can't retire while he’s still young, he’d just as soon not have a career, lie wants |to know the world. The girl is a daughter of wealth and position. Tired of the | sham and prentence of her life as a debutante, sho is frantically searching for something to absorb her. The Philip Barry play was a brilliant success. Donald Ogden Stewart, one of the greatest of humorists, collaborated with Sidney Buehman, who wrote “Theodora Goes Wild,” in adapting tlie Barry drama to tho screen. Miss Hepburn has never brought a finer characterisation to the screen. She has always wanted to play the role of Linda Scton. ever sineo her days, not so long ago, as a struggling young actress seeking a foothold in the theatre. At that time, she once was engaged as an understudy to the star in tho stage production of “Holiday.” Miss Hepburn spent an entire season in the wings watching and waiting for a chance to play the role. Carv Grant, co-starred in “Holiday,” is the first leading man ever to appear opposite the actress for a second time. This pair recently completed “Bringing Up Baby.” Grant, whose forte is madcap comedy, is one of Hollywood’s favourite stars. Others in tho cast of “Holiday” arc Doris Nolan. Jean Dixon, Binnie Barnes, Edward Everett llorton, Lew Ayres and Henry Kolker. STATE THEATRE. “SAFETY IN NUMBERS.”

As long as Hollywood turns out pictures as good as "Safety In Numbers,” the Jones Family’s latest, no one can challenge the industry’s current slogan that “motion pictures are your best entertainment.” Showing to-morrow at the State Theatre, this delightful 20th Cen-tury-Fox comedy finds America’s favourite folks ten times funnier than ever —because this time they’re all in a jam together, proving that where there’s a jam there’s mound to be a Jones, and vice versa! The picture opens with Mrs Jones agreeing to go on the air with a weekly broadcast on domestic problems. ller sponsor controls the site of a new mineral water discovery in which the good citizens of Maryvilleled by Dad Jones—are anxious to invest their savings. So preoccupied is the family with visions of sudden wealth that no one realises that Jack Jones has fallen in love meanwhile with pretty Toni Stewart, a newcomer to Maryville, who wants Jack to elo(>c with her. Jack suggests that they send his mother an anonymous letter, in care of the radio station, asking her advice. She discusses their problem in her next broadcast and to Jack's and Toni’s utter surprise, gives her approval to the match. On the day the two lovers plan 1o olo|K\ it is discovered that the spring water contains no minerals —which means Jhat Dad and the oLhor investors have been duped, about 100.000 dollars’ worth! “LAWLESS VALLEY.” Blazing six-shooters, thundering hooves, a damsel in distress and a two-fisted wost-cncr bent on revenge sums up briefly George O'Brien's newest RKO Radio outdoor drama, “Lawless Valley,” which opens to-morrow at the State Theatre.