ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 128, 1 May 1941, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

State Theatre. —A dramatic and touching story of events in an auto eantii on tin* Arizona desert is told in “One Crowded Night,” new RKO Radio offering. Sixteen persons occupy the camp during, the course of the story—tlie elderly couple who run it, their two daughters, a mechanic and a waitress, a pedlar of patent medicine. a pair of crooks, an escaped convict seeking to clear his name, a truck driver, a navv deserter in the custody of two policemen, and the deserter’s young wife, who is about to have a baby. The lives of these oddly-assorted characters are linked by the accidents of Kate, and it is around Ibis linking that the various story threads are woven to make a dramatic and absorbing pattern. Three romances and vignettes of jealousy, revenge, mother-love and regeneraion are blended together in this entertaining picture, which strikes a really new note in the season's screen symphony. Mayfair Theatre. —Hailed as one of the truly great motion pictures of all time. Darryl F. Zanuck's production of “The Rnins Came,” the sensationally successful novel liv Louis Bmmfield. shows to day at the Mayfair Theatre. with Myrnn. Lov, Tyrone Power and George Brent sharing stellar honours. This powerful story of human emotions at the breaking point and human lives at the climax, while ihe untamed forces of nature ravaged the earth, has been faithfully retold in this 20th Cen-tury-Fox film, in which all of Bromfield's colourful characters are brought to life. Myrnn, T.ny is seen as the amorous Lady Ksket.li. Tyrone Power has his most romantic role as Major Rama Patti, and George Brent; plays the world-ucarv Tom Ransome. Brenda Joyce, star-maker Zanuck’s newest discovery, interprets the role of young Fern Simon.