ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 132, 6 May 1941, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

Regent Theatre. —It is rare these days, except in the case of documentary films, lo fro a picture which depicts an aspect of real life. SopJiisticatcd stories of high socicly and eternal triangles seem in the main to be tho stand-by of many producers. It is pleasant, tlicrcfdrc, to find a producer who has taken as his subject one of tho most heroic of present-day occupations and put it on tho screen. "The Last Adventurers," a Conway production, produced by Fraser Passmoro, brings to tho screen for the first time the authentic story of the heroes of to-day, our own British trawlermen. Dedicated to those bravo men who daily risk their lives in hazardous seas so that the nation may be kept supplied with fish, it shows every phase of tho fishermen's life and work.

Meteor Tneatre—America's greatest living composer, Jerome Kern, furnished the musical score of five original numbers in Universale romantic comedy feature, "One Night in the Tropics," now showing at the Meteor Theatre A reunion of star and composer was marked when Allan .Jones was assigned a stellar role opposite Nancy Kelly in tho new film. .Jones made one of his initial hits in tho 1956 Universal film version of "Showboat," which boosted one of Kern's most memorable scores. In ''One Night in tho Tropics" Jones sings three of the new numbers by tho veteran composer of the scores for ''Sally," "Sunny," "Roberta" and many other successes. "You and Your Kiss," "Simple Philosophy" and "Your Dream" arc the numbers sung by Jones. Miss Kelly makes a vocal debut by singing "Your Dream," Peggy Moran, young leading lady who has her most important role to date," also sings for tho first time when sho vocalises Kern's "Remind Me."