ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 153, 31 May 1941, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

i Meteor Theatre. —Fianchot Tone, in the I first Western role of his career, stars at I 1 lie head of an imposing cast in the new | Universal frontier epic, “Trail of the j Vigilantes,” which shows to-night at the I Meteor Theatre. In the picture with 'lone are Warren William, Broderick Crawford, : Andy Devine, .Mischa Auer, i’orter Hall. Peggy Moran, Samuel S. Hinds ancl other well known players. Tone portrays an under cover agent sent by a newspaper to the frontier in quest of the murderer of a reporter, and his adventures lead him irdo conflict with a gang of 'attic rustlers. “Trail of the. Vigilantes” was directed by the veteran Allan Dwan. Photographed by Joseph Valentine and Milton Knsncr, noted Hollywood cinematographers, the ! film, contains many picturesque outdoor scenes made in the high mountain regions of California. Several of these scenes, in which Tone, Crawford, Devine, Atr-r and Peggy Moran appear, arc said to have ’he most spectacular backgrounds ever transferred to the screen.

State Theatre. —The great and inimitable ! Charlie Chaplin, who for a generation has maintained pre-eminence as the leading comedian of the screen, returns to the screen in “The Great Dictator,” the master I work upon which he has bent bis tireless i energies these past years and the picI ture which is causing international reperj cessions. The theme Charlie chooses springs j from the dreams of millions—the liglit- | hearted ridiculing of the forces that opI press the average man of the workaday i world. In order to achieve this, Chaplin l selects ,ns his central character the one personality alive in the world to-day who, mere than any other human, guides those forces of oppression against the innocent peoples of the world. He chooses Hiller. Perhaps it was one of the whitnp of Providence that gave Chaplin the truncated moustache years ago which Hitler adopted much later. Whatever the reason, most people arc ready to agree that Chaplin made the moustache famous, and Adolph made it mlamou?.