ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 November 1938, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT ATTRACTIONS STATE: NOW SHOWING, DOUBLE F.E ATURE ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY: SONJA HENIE IN “HAPPY LANDING” The State to-night presents two big features of outstanding merit which will undoubtedly be appreciated by Nelson audiences. The new RKO Radio comedy, "Living on Love.” is a rollicking story of life in New York’s Greenwich Vil-! lage which builds continued laughs from ■ a series of novel situations. James Dunn! and Whitney Bourne, make a pleasing j romantic combination in the leading, roles, and they are ably supported by a competent cast of comedians who! get the utmost from the many amusing! intricacies of the plot. The new screen I comedy team of Kenneth Terrell an-J ■ James Fawcett are cast as a pair of! vaudeville acrobats, and others in sup- j port include Tom Kennedy. Etta Me-| Daniels. Evelyn Carrington and Chester j Clute. The mark of six-shooters and ; the crack of baseball bats are harmonised with colourful range melodies in! "Rawhide.” co-starring Smith Ballewj and Lou Gehrig. The story is one of | bare-fisted adventure and cyclonic j action in the rough, tough Arizona cattlelands. To the tune of rollicking range ballads. Lou Gehrig, baseball idol j and Smith Ballew, singing cowboy, team i to wipe out the most dangerous band j of range racketeers ever to invade the West. Evelyn Knapp. Arthur Loft anrl j Si Jenks are also featured in the film. I The management desires to advise patrons that plans are now open for the supreme musical "Happy Landing” starring Sonja Henie which opens on| Friday. In view of this star’s great popularity the public are urged to re-! serve immediately. MAJESTIC AUDIENCES ENTHRALLED WITH “DEAD END”. COMMENCING FRIDAY AT 2 p.m. “SUBMARINE Dl”

"Dead End” which commenced its three day season yesterday completely enthralled all those who witnessed it and its presentation to-day and finally to-morrow should entice large audiences.

“Dead End” was adapted from the famous stage play that ran for two years in New York. Samuel Goldwyn purchased the screen rights and turned it into, a motion picture. It is a thrilling story of twenty-four hours of turbulent life in New York city, and portrays the elemental clash of those who yearn for “something better” with the forces that tie them relentlessly to the life they despise. The city rich and its poor, its saints and its sinners as they live and struggle, provide magnificent drama. In this screen version the six

boy actors play the roles they played on the stage. Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney and Humphrey Bogart play the leading roles. There is gripping interest in this Goldwyn picturisation of the stage play. It is a masterful blending of a strong story, brilliant acting, expert direction and intelligent production.

Proclaimed as the greatest motion picture ever made with an undersea boat as its subject and “Submarine D-l” has been booked as the feature attraction at the Majestic for the week-end, commencing Friday next. It is a Warner Bros, melodrama co-starring Pat O’Brien and George Brent, and featuring Wayne (“Kid Galahad”) Morris . In the making of it the United States Navy Department deserves as much credit as the movie folk, for it threw open to the Warners its submarine establishments at San Diego, Cocos Coco in the Panama Canal Zone, and Newport, R. I.

The most modern of submarines officially called the D-l and also bear

ing the title of Dolphin, was used in all 1 diving and surface-running scenes. "Submarine D-l” is something new in film fare because never before have such thrilling or unusual scenes been ; photographed. An additional adjunct to the Majestic “shorts” is "The Long 1 Bright Land." the first travelogue of New Zealand in technicolour and which shows the country to possess unrivalled scenic attractions. Plans for the season are now open at the Majestic Confectionery. REGENT TO-NIGHT: GUEST NIGHT, “WHISPERING SMITH SPEAKS” AND “THE COUNTRY BEYOND.” As the danger-defying young railroader who whispered in preference, but who could shout when he wanted to. George O'Brien returns to the screen in an action-filled story, "Whispering Smith Speaks." The plot of the story revolves about the love that arises between George O'Brien, working as a railroad man. and Irene Ware, who manages a dilapidated old railway. She has no way of knowing that he is really the son of the president of the great Transcontinental railroad system, and tries to hold back from falling in love with him. The climax of the picture show how the young adventurer turns a whole railroad system upside down, and races a switch engine desperately for hundreds of miles, when his girl is in danger. Kenneth Thomson, Vic Potel and Spencer Charters fill the most important featured roles. The associate feature. "The Country Beyond” is set in the trackless wastes of Northern Canada. Its hero is Robert Kent, playing a Canadian mounted policeman. New to the game, he permits Rochelle Hudson and her father. Alan Hale, to give him the slip. Hale is wanted for a minder actually committeed by Alan Dinehart, his partner in crime. While Kent’s fellow “mountie,” Paul Kelly, tracks Hale, he goes after the girl and her faithful St. Bernard who is leading her out of the wilderness. The film follows their startling adventures, their combat with Dinehart and Buck's timely arrival and savage fight to the death with Dinehart’s viciou dog. The close of the picture shows pursuer and captive happily united in the knowledge of love.