ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 264, 5 October 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

METEOR THEATRE. “THE DEAD END KIDS ON DRESS PARADE.” “Tho Dead End Kids on Dress Parade,” a Warner Bros.’ picture starring the Dead End Kids, shows at the Meteor to-day. In this picture, tho famous bunch of screen toughs do a complete turnabout and becomo model youths in a modern American military academy. Still tho 6crap-happy hooligans, however, Leo Gorecy leads tho Kids, this time as a city slicker who comes to military school to show tho cadets a thing or two. How Gorcey gets a little discipline by tho other Dead Enders, Billy Halop, Gabriel Dell, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan and Bernard Punsey, forms the basis of this lively film of life in a' boys’ military academy. Those who have seen the Kids trade-marked in their previous successes, like “Angels With Dirty Faces” and “Dead End,” will find the new departure u welcome one, for tho talents of these youths, while slightly on the rough side, are none the less appreciated. “The Dead End Kids on Dress Parade,” features in addition to the Dead End Kids. John Litel, Frankie Thomas -and Cissie Loflus, famous stage star.

Some graphic pictures of bomb devastation in London and of aerial warfare over England and the Channel will be shown in a newsreel entitled “London’s Reply to German Claims,” which will be screened ,at tho Meteor Theatre to-day only. This film was posted in London on September 5 and travelled by air mail across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, making the journey at a rate of more than a thousand miles a day. The “short” is an actual., pictorial record of a lour of London made by a neutral observer on August 23, 1940, just after German broadcasts had asserted that the city was a mass of ruins and the morale of tho people seriously upset. STATE THEATRE. “TURNABOUT.” Hal Roach, who produced Thorne Smith’s “Topper’ series, has now filmed this brilliant author’s original comedy “Turnabout.” In this new production, Carole Landis, a lovely newcomer to the screen, is co-starred with John Hubbard, last scon on the screen in Ilal Roach’s "The Housekeeper’s Daughter.” “Turnabouts” shows at tho State Theatre tonight. These stars aro supported Vjy a I brilliant cast of players, which includes Adolphe Menjou, William Gargan, Mary Astor, Verree Teasdale, Donald Meek and Margaret Roach. “Turnabout” was directed by Hal Roach personally, and its hilarious plot concerns tho high jinks produced when Miss Landis, as Mrs Willows, and Hubbard, as her husband, change sexes. The svelte, shapely Miss Landis steps into her husband’s oversize shoes and experiments with the problems faced by tho male portion of humanity. Six-foot, broad-6bouldered Hubbard becomes a fashionable society matron and flutters about at cocktail parties while his wife wears pants —literally. After the hero ami heroine change places and sexes in “Turnabout,” chaos and confusion cn sue. Hubbard’s partners in tho film, Adolphe Menjou and William Gargan, can not understand the sudden femininity of their associate, who manages to cause all sorts of damage to tho prestige of the firm and to lose it most of its valuableclientele. Back home tho same sort of thing happens, for the somewhat mascu-line-looking lady of the house is hardly proficient with the servants and no match for tho correct social life. How the picture winds up provides the story with a surprise climax full of unexpected happenings and luugh-fillcd incidents.