ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 January 1941, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “SAN FRANCISCO.” O. lionry once remarked (Hero were only threo cities worth writing about—New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Comes now another authority on intersting cities, a world-traveller, who declares there are only six cities worth writing about—New Orleans, San _ Francisco, London, Cairo, Shanghai and Washington, D.C. He is W. S. Van Dyke, film director, who Kas led motion picture companies to all corners of the earth and who had visited and iived in most of the’ interesting cities of the world. His hit picture, “San Francisco,” which screens for two days only, Wednesday and Thursday, at the Regent Theatre with Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy starred. “San Frqncisco ranks among the most colourful cities,” he said, “because of its exciting -"past. It was born on the mud flats in the. days of the gold rush. It is to-day the only real cosmopolitan city in the west The city's fine food is traditional the world over, yet it is not the fine food alone that makes it. famous, it is the birthplace of leading artists and literary figures. San Francisco has given to the world such geniuses as David Belasco, the theatrical producer; David "Wariield, one of the greatest actors; Jim Corbett, Jack London, Bret llartc, Katherine and Frank Norris, Fred Sterling, Homer Davenport, the groat cartoonist—and even Rube Goldberg. With its Barbary Coast, its Vigilantes, its gold rush days and the tragic disasters that havo struck the city, San Francisco has given inspiration for some of the finest literary works and motion picture plots. That is why Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr chose San Francisco as the setting for the musical drama. San Francisco, co-starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy. The city’s ability to rise out of the ruins a higgler and better Sun Francisco, following the disaster that levelled. it in 1906, was tlio inspiration for the story and screen play by Robert Hopkins and Anita Loos. They saw in the hectic Barbary Coast period prior to and through the earthquake and lire an admirable dramatic theme for a motion picture.”

KOSY THEATRE. “ARTISTS AND MODELS.” The air waves have been combed and th entertainment world turned upside down for talent and the answer is “Artists and Models,”. Paramount's tuneful, girlfull, mirthful comedy now at the Kosy Theatre. Jack Benny, Andre Kostclanetz and Connie Boswell to si art with. Then there’s lovely Ida Lupino, Richard Arlcn glamorous Gail Patrick, Ben Blue and many others, together with hundreds of beautiful models brought from America’s most famous studios and ateliers! You simply must not miss “Artists and Models” if you want to see one of the most gorgeously produced comedies of the current season 1 “NIGHT WORK.” The further- —and funnier! —adventures of that merry screen menage, tho “Fitches’ (remember them.in “Boy Trouble”?) are recounted in tho new Paramount comedy, “N'glit Work,” which is screening at the Kosy Theatre as the associate picture to “Artists and Models.” With that grand team, Mary Boland and Charlie Ruggles, cast again as tho average man-and-wife, tile story (ells how they attempt to adopt “Butch” legally, (he hov to whom they gave a home in “Boy Trouble.” “Butch,” played again by Donald O’Connor, wants to stay with Miss Boland and 'Charlio, but a,problem arises ort the 6ecne in tho poison of “Butc-h’s” testiy, steeplejack grandfather. He has to bo convinced that Charlie is a fit father—and it takes plenty of convincing, what with Charlio constantly being put on the spot by the tough staff and the tenants of the apartment house which he is managing.