ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 130, 3 May 1941, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

Mayfair Theatre. —A\"itli Clicstcr Morris, Anita Louise, Buck Jones and Ona Munson topping- a cast of outstanding players, and with a story filled with swift action and thrilling drama, the Republic picture, "Wagons Westward," shows at the Mayfair Theatre to-day. Chester .Morris plays the dual role of Torn Cook, and his twin brother David, with SitrcilCss, fire and deep sincerity, portraying a cruel, sadistic killer on the one hand and a fine, cleancut Government officer on the other. The actor's transition from the easy-going character of David to the vicious, ruthless charactor of 'Tom is played with great conviction and will add many new admirers to his following. The unusual plot of "Fugitives' at Large" marks it, rts a picture worthy of mention. Holt is seen as an engineer, whose unfortunate resemblance to a gangster leader embroils him with the law. Sent lo a prison farm for 20 years because of his "double's" crime, Holt breaks loose and comes back for revenge. The sensational manner in which the intrepid engineer smashes the conspiracy and brings I he ringleader to his downfall makes an absorbing and powerful screen narrative. State Theatre. —"The Saint" series steadily grows mniv entertaining, and the current offering in the popular group. "The Saint in Palm Springs," proves one. of the most exciting in the string. George Sanders again re-enacts the audacious, debonair gunman who is (ho scourge of the police yet the arch-enemy of criminals, and his familiarity with the character aids him in his usual lop-notch portrayal. The story deals with the Saint's efforts to deliver three foreign stamps, worth a fortune, to a young lady working as a tennis teacher at "a California desert resort. The stamp-, which represent her sole inheritance from her deceased father, have been smuggled out of a foreign country. The Saint en counters many harrowing adventures at the hands of three gangsters who are trying lo intercept his delivery of the stamp-;, and from the sinister schemes of a beautiful foreign agent lo recover the valuable pro porty for her Government.