ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 96, 21 March 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

METEOR THEATRE. "MAN-PROOF.” Mvrna Lov, recently voted the most popular actress in American films, conies to the Meteor screen to-day in “ManProof.” su: rounded by a Hollar cast which includes such well-known personalities as Franehot Tone, Rosalind Russell and Walter Pidgeou. In the now picture, based on a novel by Fanny lloaslip Lea, Miss 1 .oy makes a striking departure from Her familiar role of the "perfect wife” to play an ultra-modern girl who overrides oldfashioned conventions in her pursuit of Urn man she loves. The plot, in brief, descrilx’s Miss Lov as a newspaper artist, in Jovo with a social clii'tiber, Walter *J’idgcon. W lieu be marries Rosalind Russell, society heiress. Miss I.oy resolves to win him back. Meanwhile, Franehot Tone, young cartoonist, falls in love with her. When the hoticynroorrcrs return Miss Loy renews her siege. Pidgeou is surprised hy his wife irr Miss Loy’s apartment. But when he is offered a divorce ho refuses, knowing that he is in love only with hintself. Miss Jxry at least realises the futility of her false romance and turns back to Torre. “THEY ALL COME OUT.” Story of a romance which bloomed even against the discouraging and depressing background of prison walls, lilmed in tire dramatic and authentic locale of actual Federal prisorrs. "They All Come Out,’ now screening at the Meteor ’J liontre, emerges as one of tHo most refreshingly unusual features of the year’s film fare. With a east headed by Rita Johnson and Tom Nonl a.s the romantic leads, it achieves a sincerity and compelling flavour which many a picture with bigger "names’’ bas lacked. Dealing with a gang of five, of which the boy and girl arc members, the liim dramatically traces their capture by G-Men and their sentence and ultimate incarceration in Federal penitentiaries, tho actual backgrounds of which are dramatically shown.

STATE THEATRE. “'LIIE MIND OF MR REEDER.” When you combine one of the most lovable characters ever created by that master of character drawing, Edgar Wallace, with t.he artistry of one of the loved figures on the stage and screen to-day, Will hylic. you have something to conjure with. In " I he Mind of Mr Reeder" (G-B-D), winch is due at the State Theatre today, you have this combination, and the result is one of the most enjoyable films one could wish to see. Whether Mr Reeder—as W ill I'yffe interprets hint —is sipping hot. milk and dreaming of his chicken farm in his study, or whether ho is ivleittles.-ly tracking down the' gang of criminals that have harassed Scotland Yard for some time at all limes he is a. human, lovable figure tliat will, we feel, soon become as well known and well-liked as other famous screen defectives. “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 i>v the old gentleman nlto carries an umbrella from the special branch of Scotland Yard. "FRONTIER MARSHAL." The wickedest, wildest town in that, dangerous West of old. Tombstone. Arizona, where the man fa-slesr on the draw lived’ the longest is the setting of "Frontier Marshal.” which opens at the State Theatre to dav. Randolph Scott and Nancy Kellv head tire great east of this thrilling 20th" Century-Fox production, which also prominently features t 0.-ar Romero, lunnie Barnes and John Carradine. Scott has Iris most colourful role to dale as Wyatt Karp, the gun-lighting marshal who brought in the law at the end of a six-gun and slaved alive because no one ever heat, hitii to the draw. The lovely Nancy Kelly is cast as the beautiful, brave, unflinching girl who followed Doe. Holliday. 1,1,,. man she loved. 10 this Godforsaken borderland town to save him.