ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 2 March 1939, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT ATTRACTIONS MAJESTIC FINALLY l'O-NIGHT: “RICH MAN—POOR GIRL.” COMI MENCING 2 P.M. FRIDAY, LAUREL AND HARDY IN THEIR FINAL MUSICAL CONVULSION, “SWISS MISS” Audiences have been high in praise of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s comedy romance. “Rich Girl -Poor Man.” which concludes its season to-night. It is ideal family entertainment with comedy predominating. Robert Young. Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey, Lana Turner, Rita Johnson and Guy Kibbee head the great , cast in this story of a girl from an ordinary middle class family who captures la millionaire. The film is popular entainment for all audiences. An outstanding bracket of Majestic “shorts” includes the inimitable Pelo Smith on “Fisticuffs” with this famous narrator in a candid close-up of the cauliflower-ear growing industry with Max Baer featured. The popular comedian. Robert Benchley will delight all with his latest contribution, “Plow to Read” and a Metro Miniature “That Mothers Might Live” depicts the discovery of the cause of child-bed fever. Completing the “shorts” are a cartoon and the latest world events captured by the roving camera. “Swiss Miss.” commencing to-morrow. | offers the highly amusing spectacle of Laurel and Hardy as a pair of commercial travellers for mousetraps. With their usual bland logic, they descend on Switzerland, for where there is cheese, they argue, mice will be also. After an early failure, they dispose of their goods, rush to an hotel to celebrate their good fortune with a grand dinner, and find they have been given bad | money. Forced to work os servants i until their debt is paid, they are inI structed to move a piano to a tiny tree j house. The sight of these two pushing j the piano over a flimsy bridge which I swings dangerous over a deep chasm forms one the most diverting sequences , in which they have ever appeared. Equally funny is the scene where Laurel endeavours to rob a Saint Bernard dog of his flask of brandy. When all his wheedlings fail, he conceives the ! notion of staging a collapse, with a | basket of chicken feathers supplying the requisite snow. “Swiss Miss” does not devote all its footage to the comcjdians, much of the film being given to a j delightful musical score. Swiss dances, an “Alpinfest.” flag throwing, while throughout the scenes are glorious. In- | tending patrons are advised to make ! early reservation. STATE: FINAL SCREENING OF DOUBLE FEATURE BILL. TOMORROW AT 2 I'M.: GRACIE FIELDS WITH VICTOR MCLAGLEN IN “WE’RE GOING TO BE RICH” A good audience last night viewed the excellent family programme at the State, consisting of the popular Jones Family in “A Trip to Paris.” and “Bor- ! der O Man.” with that great outdoor ! star George O’Brien. The evening was a thoroughly enjoyable.one. and worthy I of recommendation to those desirous of j seeking good entertainment. As toI night is the final night patrons should not. fail to be present. ! There must be very few people in the j world who have not heard or read of that great entertainer. Oracie Fields at some time or another. Perhaps the most popular star living. Gracie has for years brought joy ‘and fun per medium

of stage and radio to countless millions throughout the world. Her films, too, have been a great delight, and her latest production. “We’re Going to be Rich.” which opens to-morrow, is another of outstanding merit. Ably supported by well-known Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy, this film contains more laughs, thrills and melody than any other presented recently, and Nelson will be entirely captivated by such j splendid entertainment. Patrons are advised to reserve immediately as plans ! are likely to be full for such a popular REGENT: FINAL SCREENING OF "WHERE’S SALLY?” AND “BARRED WINDOWS.” COMMENCING FRIDAY AT 7.45 P M.. TWO EXCELLENT FEATURES—DICK FORAN IN "PRAIRIE THUNDER ’ AND “CITY STRUTS” “Prairie Thunder.” which has Dick Foran. the Singing Cowboy, as its star, is a thrilling story of the days when hostile Indians tried to prevent the white man from linking coast and coast with his railroads and telegraph lines. Dick is a cavalryman who. with his pal Frank Orth, is assigned to ride out and discover and repair breaks in the telegraph lines, caused by unfriendly In dians. They do so and learn that a renegade white man. played by Albert J. Smith, is inciting the Indians. Smith and his confederates are financially interested in the freight waggons whlcft have been the only means of crossing the country. By inciting the Indians to revolt, they hoped to stop the completion of the railroad and telegraph and thus save the waggon trains. Ellen Clancy supplies the feminine interest to this exciting outdoor drama of the West. In the associate feature. “City Streets,” Edith Fellows and Leo. Carrcllo have the leading roles in a comedy drama with its heart-warming story ot a lovable slum-dweller who surrenders his business and almost loses his life to bring happiness to a crippled waif. Both little Miss Fellows and Mr Carrillo provide pertormances matching in emptional intensity anything they have ever before offered the screen. Also in the cast arc Helen Jerome Eddy. Mary Gordon. Tommy Bond. Arthur Loft. Frank Sheridan and Joseph King. Chapter 9 of the adventure serial. ! “Tim Tyler’s Luck,” presents this week : “The Gates of Doom” and concludes one of the most outstanding double-feature ; programmes offered for some time, j Plans are at R. Thomas’s, Trafalgar street, and patrons are advised to make early reservations. A matinee will screen on Saturday at 2 p.m.