THEATRE GUIDE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 292, 14 November 1941, Page 3

THEATRE GUIDE

Mayfair.—To-night at 7.45. The Dead End Kids, famous for their unique work on stage and screen, are co-starred with Gladys George, Barton MacLano and The Little Tough Guys in Universal's “Hit the Road.” Gladys George and Barton MaeLanc will ho seen in the leading adult characterisations. “The Great Plane Robbery,” newest and best, of the Jack Holt Columbia films, presents the screen favourite as a private detective working for a largo insurance company. Fearful that Jack Colson, notorious racketeer, will be murdered before they can cancel his insurance policy, the' company officials assign Holt to the task of protecting him from death. Meteor.—Daily at 2 and 7.4 b p.m. One of the year’s gayest iilms screens tonight at the Meteor Theatre. The picture which produced this potent reaction was Paramount’s version of the hilarious Broadway hit, “Kiss the Boys Goodbye,” starring Don Amechc and Mary Martin, and featuring Oscar Levant, Connie Boswell and Rochester, in addition to many other entertainment notables. Under the skilful and playful direction of Victor Scliertzingcr, who, incidentally, wrote the music for the film “Kiss the Boys Goodbye” is a tark from beginning to end. Regent.—To-night at 5 and 7.45. Ecstatic romance is the major theme of George Stevens’ “Penny Serenade,” George Stevens’ new drama at the Regent Theatre, screening to-night with 'lrene Dunne and Cary Grant starred. Two of the most exciting stars on the screen to-day, in a love story which is everything a love story should he—sentimental, rapturous, filled with laughter and with tears —“Penny Serenade” possesses as well a warmth and tenderness which makes it one of the year’s immediate selections for the vaunted “ten best.” State. —To-night at 5 and 7.45. “Gone With the Wind Up.” which screens to-night is the funniest of Crazy Gang stories. The Gang are shown its members of the balloon barrage who incur the wrath of tile authorities by running a fish and chip stall on the sly and advertising their business on the side of the balloon they are supposed to lie minding. In the middle of a demonstration of the raising of Ihe barrage over London before an important official, the Gang’s balloon, painted to look like a fish, charges into the air, carrying with it the roof of the fried fish stall, with the hoys precariously perched on top.