ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 16 January 1939, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT ATTRACTIONS STATE PRESENTS OUTSTANDING COMEDY SUCCESS “BRINGING UP BABY,” STARRING CARY GRANT AND KATHARINE HEPBUTN. The State management announces the screening to-night of one of the most laugh-provoking pictures ever screened. Other great laughter shows such as “Topper”, “Merrily We Live”, “The Awful Truth.” etc., sink into oblivion compared with this new vehicle “Bringing up Baby” starring popular Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburnon instant success in her first comedy role. Leopards roam the countryside, inaocent people are gaoled as desperate criminals, a playful dog steals a treasure. a museum exhibit that has taken four years to construct crashes into a heap of miscellaneous bones, and a <=core of other madcap mishaps befall the characters in RKO Radio's ‘Bringing Up Baby.” The picture, which stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant is one bit of brilliant nonsense after another, with each new sequence following as a logical development of the one that has gone before Charlie Rug gles. May Robson. Barry Fitzgerald Walter Catlett and Fitz Field appear in the film, which was directed and produced by Howard Has ks. with Clift Reid serving as associate producer. An item of special interest is contained in the latest March of Time. It depicts Hitlei's 14-year-old dream for the annexation of Austria, his plans, his campaign and his signal success Perhaps the most eagerly awaited picture for some time is “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” Based on the life ot the world-famous composer, Irving Berlin, the picture is a cavalcade of his sensational hits for the last 25 years. Box plans open on Monday next.

JEANETTE MACDONALD AND NELSON EDDY ATTRACTING ENORMOUS HOUSES IN “THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST” NOW AT THE MAJESTIC. That Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy have whetted the palates of the Nelson public is fully evidenced in the Majestic’s huge auditorium being packed out two nights in succession. To date in the two days run over 3500 people have witnessed the king und queen of song in their latest musical production “The Girl of the Golden West”, and intending patrons are advised to reserve as booking is still heavy. In the adaptation of the famous Belasco play, the picture has been enhanced by one of the loveliest musical scores heard on the screen in some time. Among the numbers that will not be forgotten are ' Senorita ” “Who Are We to Say.” ‘Shadows on the Moon.' “The Wind in the Trees.” “From Sunup to Sundown.” "Soldiers of Fortune’ and "Mariachie.” a lavish Spanish fes tival that includes Madame Rasch’s dances From the classics are drawn “Dream of Love’ by Liszt, sung by Miss MacDonald in the Polka Saloon sequence, and Gounod’s “Ave Maria,* which she sings in the scene in the Monterey Mission Miss MacDonald plays Mary, the orphaned owner of the Polka Saloon. Jack Ranee, gambling sheriff, is in love with her. but Mary falls in love with Ramerez, romantic bandit whom she believes is a youhg army officer. A jilted sweetheart betrays Ramerez to Ranee but the bandit escapes, wounded, to Mary’s cabin where he is captured. Mary promises to marry Ranee if he frees Ramerez and a very ingenious clinrx reunites the lovers. Contributing outstanding performances in a distinguished supporting cast are Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo, Buddy Ebsen, Leonard Perm. Priscilla Lawson. Bob Murphy and Olin Howland.

REGENT TO-NIGHT: “YOU AND ME” AND “CAMPUS CONFESSIONS.” “You and Me” starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft is a powerful drama of paroled ex-convicts and the parole rule that forbids them to marry. Both Miss Sidney and Raft portra'y the roles of ex-convicts. Raft has worked out his parole and marries Miss Sidney, a co-worker in a large department store. The girl, afraid of losing his love, conceals from him the fact that she is still on parole and therefore runs the risk of being recommitted to prison for marrying. When Raft learns of her past he becomes embittered, gives up his struggle to go straight, returns to his “mob,” and is only saved from another criminal career by the daring action of his wife, who risks everything to save him. Featured in the excellent supporting cast of the new film are Roscoe Karns, George E. Stone, Warren Hymer and Barton Mac Lane. The associate feature “Campus Confessions," is the first picture ever to be made with a basketball background, and incidentally, Ms the first collegiate film in which the hero is not a football player who rushes in the game at the last moment to win for good old Podunk and the beautiful girl waiting in the stands. Hank Luisetti, star American basketball ace, is seen in a featured part along with such other young stars as Betty Grable, William Henry and Eleanore Whitney. “Campus Confessions” tells of the struggles of a rich man’s son when he enters a college that his father supports, only to find himself heartily disliked by the student body because his father refuses to give any money for the various athletic teams.