ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 95, 20 March 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “FIT FOR A KING." The new Joe K. Brown comedy, “Fit For a King,” which opens to-night at the Kotsy Theatre, presents the wide-mouthed comedian in one of his funniest pictures. The laughs, which follow each other so rapidly ■that it was difficult at times to hear some of the lines, are provoked by both situations and dialogue. Joe is cast a chump newspaper man. When a story breaks about attempts on the life of a visiting nobleman. Joe’s editor assigns him to stick with the intended victim in the secret hope that the a.-i-assin may make a mistake. The trail leads to an ocean liner and Joe stows away, to find laterJhat a rival news service had assigned Paul Kelly to cover the same story. By the time the boat docks _ in France, Kelly has taught Joe a few tricks about news covering and, incidentally, has him confined to the brig for the greater part of the trip. When the two learn in Baris that the object of the nobleman’s visit was to bring back a princess, Kelly again scoops Joe despite the fact that Joe had spent the previous evening making love to the princess. These situations then turn out to be only the build-up for more hilarious excitement which follows rapidly. “DOUBLE DANGER.” Enhancing the ever-popujar story of a gentleman crook by providing hint with a clever feminine rival, RKO Radio’s new mystery offering. “Double Danger,” comes with Preston Poster and Whitney Bourne as the second feature.

STATE THEATRE. | “THE .MINI) OF MR REEDER.” i When you combine one of the most lovable characters ever created by.that master of character drawing, Eugar \\ allace, with the artistry of one ot the loved figures on tlie stage and screen to-day, W ill byffe, you have something to conjure with. In “The Mind of Mr Reeder’ (G-B-D), which ts j due at the Stale Theatre to-day, you have this combination, and the result is' one of * the most enjoyable films one could, wish to [see, Whether Mr Reeder —as \\ ill hylic interprets him—is sipping hot milk and dreaming of his chicken farm irt his study, or whether lie is relentlessly tracking down l lie gang of criminals that have harassed Seel land Yard for some time, at ail times he is a human, lovable figure that] will, we feel, soon become as well known anti' well-likeli as other, famous screen detectives. “The Mind of .Mr Reeder, - ’ as followers of Edgar Wallace are no doubt well aware, deals with the manner in which a gang of counterfeiters are tracked down by the old gentleman who carries j an umbrella from tlie special branch of Scotland Yard. “FRONT lER M A RSHA L.’ ’

The wickedest, wildest town in that dangerous 'West of old, Tombstone, Arizona, where the man fastest on the draw lived the longest is the setting of “Frontier Marshal,” which opens at the State Theatre to-day. Randolph Scott and Nancy Keily head tile great cast of this thrilling 20th Century-Fox production, which also prominently features Cesar Romero, Binnic Barnes and John Carradine. Scott lias his most colourful role to date as Wyatt Earp, the gun-fighting marshal who brought in the law at the end of a six-gun and stayed alive because no one ever beat him to the draw. The lovely Nancy Kelly is cast as the beautiful, brave, unflinching girl who followed Doc. Holliday, the man site loved, to this God-forsaken borderland town to save him.