ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 177, 28 June 1941, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

Meteor Theatre. —A picture as timely and exciting’ as the latest news bulletin shows at the Meteor Theatre to-day when Warner Bros;’ “A Dispatch From Reuter's” starring Edward Li. Robinson. starts its local season. The screen has brought to the front the stories of many famous people but never before has it revealed the tale of a person so widely heard for, but so little known, Robinson plays the parj of Julius lieu ter, whose speedy dispatcher held within them the fate of empires and who did more to form the ethical credo ol news gathering than any man in history, ilo first had the idea of finding somo way to speed up the travelling of nous_ when he was a child. Never forgetting his childhood ambition, he and his friend, played by Eddie Albert, open a news agency, and use pigeons to carry flic news between towns which have no telegraph. As years go on the lleuter’s News Agency, becomes more and more associated with dramatic-. and far-reaching events despite attempts to place obstacles in bis'path. Mayfair Theatre.— Alivo with thrills, laughter and romance Universal s new prizelight drama, “The Leather-Pushers,” which shows to-day at the -Mayfair Theatre, should be rated one of the outstanding action films of the season. laterally carrying a punch in every scene, the production provides costars Richard Arlcn and Andy Devine with what is probably their top eo-slarring effort to date. Set against the colourful background of the prize-ring, the film zips through'I’a 1 ’a series of exciting sequences climaxed by a spectacular battle between Alien land ail opponent for the right to battle J the champion. Expertly interwoven tire humorous and romantic sequences. Lovers of Western dramats will find much enjoyment in the new outdoor picture on the Mayfair programme. It is “Rangers’ Round-Up” and features the new singing cowboy Fred Scott, renowned for bis. brilliant baritone voice. A further chapter of “The Green Hornet Strikes Again” is also screening. State Theatre. —“Hudson’s Bay,” 20th Centurv-Fox adventure shows to-day at the State Theatre. Portraying Pierre Radisson. the colourful, reckless “First Canadian, ’ Muni turns in a superb performance which is sure to put him in the running for another Academy Award. Muni s latest role is distinctly different from the austere typos of roles he made famous in recent years, taking 1 ini away from the -sombre backgrounds with wliic.li lie lias been associated—into an atmosphere of romantic adventure. Beautifully filmed. enacted and directed. “Hudson's Bay” depicts a turbulent story of rearing action in the north’s frozen wilderness. Although it is essentially the dramatic story of the founding of a great commercial empire in Canada. the film is also a powerful and eloquent story of courage. Woven into the story is a gripping romance between John Sutton and lovely Gene Tierney.

Regent Theatre. — Laughing days are here again! The Marx Brothers —Groueho, Chico and Harpo—in “Go West.” is one of the funniest pictures in screen history. It is a scream from start to finish and laughs are too numerous and come too fast to he counted. There is more of a plof than usual in this Marx offering, nevertheless the merry antics of the comedy stars arc more important, than what happens in (lie story. Situations are new and novel, with rho most hilarious scenes taking place in a railroad station where Groueho tries lo flccec Chico and Harpo and is fleeced himself, a slainbang. scene in a stage coach as funny as their famed stateroom scene in “A Night at the Opera,” a sidesplitting “wild party” with three comely girls in an office, an Indian sequence and a wild wind-up on board a speeding train.