ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 26 June 1940, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT ATTRACTIONS

REGENT TO-NIGHT: GEORGE SANDERS, DOLORES DEL RIO IN “INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT” AND “MINSTREL BOY”

The story of Americans swept overnight into adventure behind the barricades of the Orient's amazing city within a city is told in “international Settlement.” “International Settlement” features Dolores Del Rio, George Sanders, June Lang and Dick Baldwin, defying

every nation's warning to “Get out of danger!” Each has a reason for ignoring the warning and remaining behind the barricades where refugees from the stricken metropolis desperately reek safety. The most beautiful white woman in all China, Dolores Del Rio, is a glamorous figure of mystery whose motive is to live dangerously. An American soldier of fortune, George Sanders, in the Far East as a flying instructor, remains to tempt death. Dick Baldwin fa a daring newsreel cameraman, daring the flying destruction of the bombardment to get his pictures and to find romance with June Lang, beautiful American tourist who proves a champion under fire. Their tangled lives and loves in the battle area, against a background of all the colour and drama that pervades the East today, gives the picture of the hour a hundred big moments.

The associate attraction. “Minstrel Roy,” is a gay, tender and intimate romance that will move you to laughter and tears. Something quite new :s provided with the musical numbers, and some of the brilliant song numbers in elude “The Best Thing in Life.” “Love's a Racketeer,” “The Minstrel Boy.’ “When Loves are so Many,” “When I Love the Moon,” and “McDougal, McNab and McKay.” The players starred are Lucille Lisle. Fred Conynham and Chili Bouchier.

MAJESTIC: “EAST SIDE OF HEAVEN,” BING CROSBY, JOAN BLON DELL, MISCHA AUER, C. AUB REY SMITH

Down to earth humanness combined with music s.o catchy that you just naturally hum it as you leave the theatre i‘j a movie formula guaranteed to please. And it more than pleases in the Bing Crojby-Joan Blondell picture, “East Side of Heaven,” now screening at the Majestic Theatre. Bing is a cruising troubadour, or to put it more plainly a singing taxi driver. Joan, his sweetheart, is a hotel telephone operator. Mischa Auer is Bing’s unemployed roommate who has learned from reading the stars that he should not even look for work until 1942. There is your background for the story. And all three players do a successful job of making you like them because you know them so well. You will have known them for years—the girl down the block, the boy in that cheap fourth-floor room and that other likeable fellow who will go to no end of trouble to keep away from work. This trio would be quite sufficient in any picture. But in “East Side of Heaven” they are aided, and very materially, by “Sandy,” the cutest infant ever to face a movie camera. “Sandy” is “deposited” with Crosby by Irene Hervey. who takes this means of keeping her baby from her wealthy and hard-fisted father-in-law, portrayed by C. Aubrey Smith. That’s when the fun really staffs, fun such as you have rarely seen until you watch Bing, Joan and Mischa try to take care of the youngster. Then there is the music,

four brand new lilting tunes of the <ind you want to sing, whistle, or hum in or out of a shower bath. They are called “East Side of Heaven,” “Sing a Song of Sunbeams,” “That Sly Old Gentleman from Featherbed Lane” and “Hang Your Heart on a Hickory Limb.” STATE: GORDON lIARKER IN “INSPECTOR HORNLEIGH ON HOLIDAY,” AND THE JONES FAMILY IN “QUICK MILLIONS”

Detectives are even more popular on the sceren than they are in books, and a glance at any circulating library’s shelves will prove the demand for detective fiction. Mysterj' fans are served once again when Scotland Yard’s famous Inspector Hornleigh returns to the screen in “Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday.” Gordon is again starred as the stamp-saving sleuth, while Alastair Sim plays his grumbling but tin-; grudging assistant, Sergeant. Bingham. Of course, “Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday” is a busman’s holiday, with the detective and his aide “enjoying” a typical rainy British week at a seaside resort. One of their fellow boarders, a captain in the Royal Navy,disappears one dismal evening, to be found next .morning burned and crushed to death in the wreckage of his roadster at the foot of a cliff. The verdict of the local police, who identfy the charred body by a tattoo-mark on the hand, is suicide At this point Hornleigh, who has his own ideas about the affairs, reveals his identity and cuts short his vacation to investigate. What he uncovers proves one of his most amazing cases—and the inspector has a talent for amazing cases. The picture was directed by Walter Forde and was produced by Edward Black for 20th Century Productions. Ltd. Robert T. Kyne was managing director, with Maurice Ostrer in charge of production. The supporting cast is headed by lovely Linden Travers, one of England's more attractive young players, .who provides a romantic interest to the thrilling story. The screen’s first family go prospecting lor gold and dig up Injun ghosts, a gun-moll, bankrobbers and one gold nugget (lost from a miner’s watch-chain!) in their latest picture, The Jones Family in “Quick Millions.” It is the best of the series by far. It’s a .fine comedy which tells how the Jonses, just return from their trailer trip to the West Coast, pack up for the West again when they receive word that a gold mine has been bequeathed them by a long-lost uncle. That’s the begining of the excitement and hilarity that reigns all during the film. Jed Prouty, Spring Byinglon. Ken Howell. George Ernest. June Carlson, Florence Roberts and Billy Mahan are featured in their familiar roles, with Eddie Collins, Robert Shaw and Helen Ericson included.