ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 300, 18 November 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “LONE WOLF MEETS A LADY.” Hailed as the best of all the thrilling Lone Wolf adventures, Columbia’s “The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady” shows tonight at the Mayfair Theatre with Warren William in the title role. Or rather half the title role —for the lady in the case is pretty Jean Muir who plays opposite the dashing, debonaire rogue as he leads police and crooks a merry chase in pursuit of a £20,000 diamond necklace. It is the Lone Wolf’s custom to steal fortunes and feminine hearts with equal facility. He does not neglect either in the new film. Assisting him in his daring escapades is his faithful valet, Jamison, again played by Eric Blorc, who looks upon his master’s adventures in romance and robbery with upraised eyebrows. Two murders occur during the course of the search for the elusive jewels and when the blame is placed upon the Lone Wolf, the lighthearted rogue finds himself in hot water. However, with typical audacity, he manages to outwit his adversaries, unmasking the real murderer when both police and underworld are closing in on him. The top-notch supporting cast includes Warren Hull, Victor Jory, Roger Pryor, Robert Emmett Keane and many others. Sidney Salkow directed tho production, which is based on a story by Louis Joseph Vance. , Teeming with thrills, action and romance, “King of the Lumberjacks, ’ starring John Payne and Gloria Dickson, offers grand entertainment. It is a story laid 111 the timber country of tile Northwest, a story as great as the giant trees that form the background for the actionful film.

KOSY THEATRE. “GOOD GIRLS GO TO PARIS.” Comedy in ' the continental mariner, smart and sophisticated, Columbia’s “Good Girls Go to Paris” is the most original laugh-feast of the year. The new film co-stars Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondcll, the brilliant principals of the sensational “The Amazing Mr Williams.” Alexander Hall, who directed “There a Always a Woman,” is also responsible for “Good Girls Go to Paris.” Under Ins smooth, swift-paced guidance, an assortment of completely dissimilar characters move through . a completely captivating narrative. “Good Girls Go to Paris” finds its major entertainment values in the affairs of a young Englishman, professor of Greek at a mid-western university, who finds in the Aesop fables the answers to the many perplexities lie encounters m American life; arid in the escapades of a pert, blonde waitress who lias every intention of going to Paris, but whose conscience prevents her from going via the “gold-digger” route. “Stolen Life,’ starring Elizabeth Bergner and Michael Redgrave, lias a story that any heart anywhere can understand. It is a story that any real man or woman will embrace, for the same story has happened to many and can happen to almost anyone. In other words fundamental drama is involved in “Stolen Life,” even though the manner of its telling may appear more colourful than anything that could happen to mere mortals. Withal, it is a story not for telling here. This is simply an advice of the advent of a great Paramount picture and with it the addition of two fine names to the growing roster o! Paramount stars.

METEOR THEATRE. “LUCKY TO ME.” Tlie ideal kind of film to drive away cares of any kind is found at the Meteor Theatre in “Lucky to Me,” Stanley Lupino and lovely Phyllis Brooks head a cast that makes this comedy go with a hang. Hilarious fooling is staged at a country house party where Stanley is forced to spend a week-end which- ought to have been his secret honeymoon. Wiley, played byBarbara Blair goes along as lus secretary and has a very disappointing time; her bridegroom is knocked about more than once by an over-chivalrous boxing peer who loves rescuing distressed blondes. As . a piquant sauce to an appetising dish of entert&inment, there is a boxing ballet and a few rounds of the real thing, a bathing dance with Lupino in a coy Victorian bathing dress, a notable song by Gene Sheldon in praise of fish, sung to a guitar and other numbers that will jingle pleasantly in the ears for days after the show. Here indeed is entertainment.