ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 122, 22 April 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE “RULERS OF THE SEA.” Frank Lloyd, renowned producer-director of many screen masterpieces, offers a new motion picture—one which is being hailed universally as his greatest. Entitled “Rulers of the Sea,” it stars Douglas Fairbanks, Junr., Margaret Lockwood, Will Fyffe, the great Scottish character actor, and feature ssuch favourites as George Bancroft and Montagu Love. Gloriously and magnificently, in the inimitable manner of Frank Lloyd, it relates the story of the firsttriuniphs of steam over sail. It tells of the dream of a Scottish inventor, who believes that he has perfected a steam engine capable of driving a ship across the Atlantic. And it shows' two young people, two youngsters desperately in love—his daughter and a, young first mate disgusted with the brutal treatment of crew on sailing ships—helping to bring that dream to triumphant realisation. Fairbanks is east as the sailing man. Margaret Lockwood as the inventors daughter, and the great Will FyfVe js scon as the inventor in this outstanding Paramount production. KOSY THEATRE. “submarine: patrol.” The big supcrdrcadnotighls thai s-o frequently plough the newsreel in cu; theatres may he the pride of the American Navy. But it took the frail, splintery, 110foot submarine chasers to write the most dramatic chapter in World War naval history. Constructed entirely of wood and for speed rather than seaworthiness, the subchasers answered the crying need of the A.E.F. for safe transport through the IJboat infested sea lanes of the Atlantic. Ridiculed at first hv the rest of the Navy, who doubted the tiny shifft could cvci. cross the ocean, the amazing craft demonstrated a phenomenal ability for destroying undersea marauders. In recognition of ihi: a fleet of “splinter boats 1 ' was ordered tc, Brindisi, an Italian port, for a raid in conjunction with British mcn-of-war on tlu enemy submarine base at. Durazzo. \\ ith the British ships standing off to lay a protective barrage, the tiny chasers stormed right into a nest of enemy mines, U-boats and land fortresses to win one of tin: greatest naval encounters of the entire war, and the only general engagement in which America participated. Charlie McCarthy can now talk about his operation. During the j.voduction of “Letter of Introduction,” Charlie was rushed to the hospital where he underwent a. long-anticipated operation for what ailed him. Escorted by Edgar Bergen, .McCarthy entered the hospital at 4.10 p.m. where he was the object of an immediate consultation. “Charlie is afflicted with an advanced ewe of Termitis,” Edgar Bergen ; announced to press and. public at 4.57. j “There is nothing wrong with him that a creosote bath will not cure.”