ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 167, 14 June 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

. REGENT THEATRE. “COME ON/ GEORGE.” Here’s good news for entertainment lovers. George Formbv’s new comedy, “Come On, George/’ is coming. 1 ress reviewers are unanimous iir their cieclaration 'that this -is the funniest film even George has made, a real laugh, tonic Tor those troublesome times. “Come 0:n, George”.*- is a horse-racing comedy, and George admits that. he has .long been trying to persuade A.T.P. production executives to make such a film. This is explained by the fact that the world-popu-lar comedian was once apprenticed to a racing stable and still retains his, great love for‘horses. Now the producer’s tip is “get sot” on the favourite'for a hearty laugh with “Come On, George.” George Formby and Beryl (Mrs Formby) are still the hardest* working pair in the entertainment world. If anything, the coming of war has made this very popular Lancashire couple more busy than ever. v\ hen war was declared, they were in their favourite locality. Blackpool (they have a house “Berylene” just outside the town), appearing in a 16-week engagement.. After a temporary shut-down, tho show resumed and" when it had finished, George and Beryl began to concentrate on giving the troops some free shows. A.T.P. have already begun work on a new Formby film, which shows George winning the U-boat war single-handed after landing in a neutral country and getting mixed up with a spy organisation by mistake. KOSY THEATRE. . “SOUTH OF THE BORDER.”

Gene Autry, world popular singing star of the saddle, who plays the leading role in “South of the Border,” screen version of tho popular song success, has topped the. popularity poll among Western stars in England and America for the last 3 years. He is a protege of the late Will Rogers and, perhaps, the greatest compliment ho has received is the fact that lit the American cow country in Texas, Oklahonia. Wyoming and Arizona, where the natives, know what a cowboy really is, Autry is No. 1 favourite with the folks in these parti;. , . What happens when four devoted sisters fall in love with the same man? “Four Daughters,” the Warner Bros, picturo based on a Fannie llurst story,, takes that as its theme and develops it into a richly human story. . The four (Jaugliters of an elderly musician all give their hearts unanimously to a captivating young man who comes to live at their home, and lie in turn is enraptured bv the youngest of them. And it is this girl, scarcely more than a child, who bravely sacrifices her own happiness because of a mistaken notion that by so doing sbe will ensure the happiness of her oldest sister. More by chance than by design, the tangle into which tho lives of the four girls is thrown is eventually unravelled so that each achieves the destiny that makes her happiest.