ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 138, 13 May 1941, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

1 State Theatre —Gay and refreshing as a spring breeze, Anna Neagle’s new vdhiole, “No, No, Nanette,” shows to-emy at the State Theatre. The new picture revolves about a girl's hectic romance with two young-' men, a romance that results from her efforts to help her millionaire uncle out of some feminine complications, and the result is a swift-paced and timely offering, enlivened with catchy song., and dance routines and plenty of comedy. The trouble is all due to the uncle’s inability to help them with careers, forgetting the fact that lie hat a masterful wife who is sure to misunderstand the situation. So when the young women arrive one by one to claim the promised assistance, Nanette has to pitch in and help in a desperate effort to keep auntie from knowing what’s going on. 11l irs is where the romance comes in. Among uncle's acquaintances arc a noted young theatrical producer and a famous young painter, and since two of the gold diggers arc stage-struck and artstruck respectively, Nanette wishes them off on to the young men. Mayfair Theatre.—The average man’s life to-day is richer because Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel Hubbard loved. When people talk vast distances to those dear to them, they little know it was a great remanoo that wrought the miracle! The flame that burned in the heart of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone,, was kept alive by the inspiring love of a young girl. Their dramatic romance, America’s most thrilling story, is told with power, with humour and with profound humanity in Darryl l l ’. Zanuck’s production of “The Story of Alexander Graham Bell,” showing to-day at the Mayfair Theatre. A Cosmopolitan production for 20th Century-Fox, in which Don Ameche (in the title role), Loretta Young and Ilenry Fonda share top lion-1 ours. “The Story of Alexander Bell” brings another immortal character to the motion picture gallery of the great. The Jones Family continues to glow! 20th CenturyFox makes its most important addition to the fame?** screen family since the day of the scries’ inception three years ago, with the introduction of a girl grandchild in “Everybody's Baby,” showing today at the Mayfair Theatre.