AT THE PICTURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 23 October 1941, Page 2

AT THE PICTURES

C “T? lonCi " s Alexander Koidas mighty Tcclmicolour masterniece /The Thief of Bagdad" starring round ' cidt. Sabu. June Duprez. Against backgrounds which have never before been 1 .equalled for pictorial brilliance and sween- ; ■ventn PCC ! aCle ' the HS, cat Technicolour ad„i . u omance - ' rhe Thief of Bagdad.” r L lavea SaJa premiere at the State Theatre to-morrow. The story takes Place in the cities of Basra and Bagdad m I ersia. Basra, many hundreds of ofp S ers a fa°’ mos , l impoi ‘ tailt town ! ot i ersia, a seething, colour-splashed sca- ' Port. swarming with Chinese. Arabs. Egyptians. Turks, Hindus and African negroes 1 A part of Basra, in all its Eastern glory, was reconstructed by Korda’s technical oxjperts But of all the exotic sets none .equalled in pure beauty and dazzling i splendour the Sultan’s Palace. The palace. ■ h its magnificent minarets and domes, was painted a deep blue. The gates arc nb-leet high, lacquered in gold. The Patio is a lavishly decorated courtyard in the Moorish style, with beautifully curved arches and spiral pillars. "The ‘Thief of i Bagdad, which cost over £4OO 000 ; abounds in scenes unwinding breathtaking (magic—magic which transforms a stonv desert into an enchanted city; a dying i hors- which flies into the clouds ‘and leturns: a Djmm, who is released from a tiny bottle, and becomes as high as the j highest mountain and towers over the '(■hy of Bagdad; the black galleon a mystery ship sailed b.v a wicked magician; {lie i fl >' in g carpe ‘t’ which goes from city to city like an airplane; the all-seeing eye. { a iveMt St ° len fr ° m a £‘ ant goddess, which ! wishes to see, no matter how far away. Regent.—Now Showing: Edgar Wallace’s ** le , our J us t Men” and Jackie Cooper in • Streets of New York.” The former concerns the cfTirts of a continental gang of war-mongers who sought to smash the British Empire and place the world in one man’s hands, but they reckon without The Four Just Men” who discover and | expose the plot. Action is the keynote of Streets of New \ork.’’ Jackie Cooper 1 goes his own way of decency and right living in spite of the fact that his own | brother is New York’s head racketeer. The ■ j film is a stirring indictment of America’s Majestic.—Now Showing: Susanna Eositer and Allan Jones in ‘‘Magic In Music.” • ! The golden-haired singing discovery of “The Great Victor Herbert,” bids for stardom in her own right with the title role of : 'Paramount’s “Magic in Music.” In Miss Foster’s part Jn the gay musical spectacle . '•she carries the principal dramatic burden ' , of the story, and sings well in both classijcal and popular vein. Featured with Allan I Jones. Margaret Lindsay and Lynne Ovcrwho is taken from a burlesque show and brought to the famed National Music t amp at Interlochen where her voice can 'be trained. As the story proves, her i ’ add""i C 1 t nCC h trai " ing - lust as bad ß'- In | ver lem t supp t ortinß subjects including two j | “Feminine Fitness.” Paramount Pictorial, iinterest) ■Hails Holiday,” a novelty and < I a capital Popeve cartoon. Wakefield Pictures.—Saturday: “Tom Brown’s Schooldays" with Sir Cedric | Hardvvicke as headmaster and Freddie , Bartholomew. Jimmy Lydon, and Billv ' Halop, as students at Rugby. Golden Bay Theatre, Takalta.—Friday ' and Saturday: "I’m From Missouri.” a i | trader on a business trip to England. Bob Burns, in the title role, is supported by 1 Gladys George and Gene Lockhart.