ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 145, 22 May 1939, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “CONVICTED.” “Convicted 11 on circumstantial evidence, despite liis'own sister's confession of murder! Thai is 11 1 o situ a lion faced !iy Charles Quiiylev and Rita. Hayworth, principals of the new Columbia mystery | drama, now showing at the Jvcey Theatre. The* film, one of tiie most exciting in recent months, details the efforts of the girl mid of a police detective to prove her brother’s innocence. Qiiiirlev is cast a.s tb*» detective whose admiration for the h rave figlu put lip by Miss 11 ay worth causes him to assist her. Miss Hayworth is seen as a night club singer who confessed to the murder in a desperate attempt to save her brother. She loses. and Hit' hoy is sentenced to death. Quigley and the girl thereupon embark upon a race against time, and finally capture the true killer at the very moment the death , house switch is slated to bo pulled. The climax of “Convicted]* is possessed of heart-stopping quid hire, so brilliantly has i the film been written, played and directed. fn addition i.o the principals, the catfc includes Marc Lawrence, George McKay and Hob Hideout. "LITTLE MISS THOROUGHBRED.” “Little Miss Thoroughbred. 1 ’ which is now showing at the Rosy Theatre, introduces to the movie public a new child actress for whom tlie studio predicts a very glowing future. The child for whom this brilliant future is predicted is six-year-old Janet Chapman, who plays the title role in “Little Miss Thorough bred,” a pari that fully equals i.i importance those of the tlnee adult leading players, Jehu Litel and Ann Sheridan of "Alcatraz. Island” fame, and Trank Mcliugh. METEOR THEATRE. ! “LISTEN, DARLING.” A search for love cm wheels, family life in a trailer going across the country, and comical contrutuiiipri galore arising from experiments ill matchmaking by Freddie Bartholomew and Judy Garland furnish | hilarity and romance in fast-moving entertainment in “Listen. Darling,” , now playing at the Meteor Theatre with Mary | Ad-tor, Alan Hale and Walter I’idgeon as the experimented-with lovers. The new picture tells the story of a pretty widow, with a young daughter, who is about to marry the town banker (Gene Lockhart) she does not love to insure her children's •■nui-ity. The daughter (Miss Garland) enlists the aid of her schoolmate “Buzz” (Freddie Bartholomew), and they “kidfj::p” her in the family trailer, secretly plotting io find an eligible husband. On the trailer trip they fall in with a vacationing lawyer (Walter I’idgeon) and an insurance executive who promptly falls in love with Miss Astor. The situation is complicated further when the banker shows up and pandemonium icigns humorously until the end. Edwin L. Marin, who directed ‘“Everybody Sing,” used the same deft comedy technique. Judy and Freddie establish themselves as a couple of capable farceurs. Miss Astor is beautiful as well ns effective in the mother role. Alan Hale is hilarious as Slattery the insurance man, and little Scotty Birkctt as Judy's small brother, always playing Indian and shooting arrows at people, provides much comedy. Miss Garland sings three numbers with her usual effectiveness. They are “The Bumpy Hoad to Love,” which she does with the a-sistaneo of Freddie. Mies Astor and Scotty; “Ten Bins in the Sky.” and “Zing Went the Strings of My Heart.” STATE THEATRE. “BECK'S BAD BOY.” Acclaimed by Hollywood criticis as one of the more hilarious mirth outbursts emanating from the film studies this year. "Beck's Bad Boy With the Circus” shows to-morrow at the State Theatre as the newest chronicle of Bill Beck's lovable pranks and misadventures. Tommy Kelly, who played the top role in “Adventures of ’Tom Sawyer,” is starred a.s Bill Beck ill this, the lirst of a series based on the comical activities of this beloved light of literature. Ton-year-old Ann Gillis, who also appeared in “Torn Sawyer,” plays a juvenile circus bareback rider. Edgar | Kennedy portrays a circus lion trainer, | and other principal roles arc enacted by such notables as Billy Gilbert, Bonita Illume, Spanlty MacFavland and Louisu j Beavers, directed by Edward E. Cline. This time the colourful big top is the cxjisiing scene for Bill Berk’s trouble-mak- ; ing but laugh-provoking antics. _ Fleeced lof his railroad fare to ramp, Bill joins up with a travelling circus to obtain his | transportation—arid revenge, llis boyish i feats—like feeding sleeping potions sicretcd in frankfurters to the man-eating lions I —contribute to the. generous hilarity of I “Beck’s Bad Boy With the Circus.” The l film is climaxed by a rousing eross-coun-I try race in a Homan chariot to camp, I where Bill wins a laugh and action-laden 1 obstacle race. Also Walt Disney’s latest coloured Mickey Mouse cartoon, “Mother Goose Goes Holly wood.” VIENNA MOZART BOYS’ CHOIR. To-morrow morning at Messrs Collinson and Cunninghaine’s, plans will bo opened for 11jo Vienna Mozart Hoys’ Clioir, which will give two concerts —afternoon _ and evening —-at the Opera House next featuiday. This choir of twenty voices belongs to tlio tradition of Viennese hoys’ choirs to which, in their day, llaydn, Mozart and Schubert all belonged. Lucky enough to grow up and be trained in n city with Vienna’s unique musical associations, they naturally sing much music that may be called native to the place, ranging frenr the polyphonic masters of the 16t.h century through Haydn, Mozart and Scliubeit down to the popular music of Johann Sirauss. The programme to be presented on Saturday will include flic musical play “Tales from the Vienna Woods” based on Strauss s best-known melodics and arranged by the choir’s conductor, Dr Georg Gruber, lbete will also bo a group of 16th century Motets, Austrian, national songs and a selection of I the folk songs of many countries.