ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 265, 8 October 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “THEt MYSTERIOUS RIDER.” A masked horseman who commits bold robberies and donates the proceeds to the poor, who becomes the most feared figure in the West without ever hurting an honest man and who saved the ranch of a beautiful young girl from rustlers without revealing his identity, forms tho romantic central character in -Paramount’s “The Alysterious Rider,” ' Zane Grey’s thrilling story of tho untamed cattle country, showing to-day at tho Kosy Theatre. Douglas Dumbrille plays the strange rider who stops his wanderings long enough to secur6 tho happiness of a daughter who does not know him, and to avenge the 20-year-old mui'dcr of his closest friend.

A group of comedians who are known for their brands of comedy all over the country, and a story studded with laugh ter and song! That’s the new Paramount musical, “Blossoms on Broadway,” showing at the Kosy Theatre to-dav. Edward Arnold, Weber and Fields, Rule Davis, William Frawley and The Radio Rogues are tho comedians, while Shirley Ross and John Trent uphold the music and romance. Kitty Kelly, Edward Bropliy, John Arthur, Frank Craven, and Charles Ilalton are in the cast. The film was directed by Richard Wallace.

METEOR THEATRE. "THE DEAD END KIDS ON DRESS PARADE.” “The Dead End Kids on Dress Parade,” a. Warner Bros.’ picture starring tho Dead End Kids, shows at the Aleteor to-day. In this picture, the famous bunch of screen toughs do a complete turnabout and become model youths in a modern American military academy. Still tho scrap-happy hooligans, however, Leo Gorccy leads the 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 the other Dead Enders, Billy Ilalop, 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 tho Kids trade-marked in I their previous successes, •' like “Angels With Dirty Faces” and “Dead End,” will find the new departure a welcome one, for the talents of these youths, while slightly on the rough side, are none the less appreciated. “The Dead End Kids on Dross Parade.” features in addition to the Dead End Kids. John Litcl, Frankie Thomas and Cissie Loflus t famous stage star.

REGENT THEATRE. “DR KILDARE’S STRANGE CASE.” The screen’s favourite doctor-hero, Dr James Kildare, again holds forth in AI.-G.-Al.’s latest “Dr Kildare” film, “Dr Kildare’s Strange Case.” With Lew Ayres portraying the title role and Lionel Barrymore as his mentor, Dr Leonard Gillespie, the fourth in. the series of medical-detec-tive stor.es provides a dramatic glimpse of what goes on when a young interne takes matters into his own hands, acting solely cn a hunch. Alter refusing a wellpaying position in a private sanilorium, Ayres returns to his hospital to learn that his friend, Shcpperd Strudwick, has perlonned what appears to have been bungled surgery. Putting facts together and acting on the theory that the patient might have been insane before the operation was performed, Ayres, by the u=& oi insulin shock to restore insane people to normalcy, succeeds in vindicating his friend and showing iiis superiors (hat his judgment was correct. Based upon the original story by Max Brand and Willis Goldbeck, the drama introduces the screen’s first presentation of the actual treatment of insane people by use of insulin to cause, shock. Prominent in the cast of “Dr Kildare’s Strangest Case” are Laraine Day, Shepperd Strudwick, Samuel S. Hinds,_ Emma Dunn, IS ft t Pendleton W'altei Kingslord and Alma Kruger.