AT THE PICTURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 9 February 1943, Page 4

AT THE PICTURES

wajestlc: Special afternoon screenings. -Kathleen- (Shirley Temple. Herbert ‘Vlarnhall. (Jail Patrick). With haunting drama, comedy, elaborate wardrobe and a spectacular musical interlude, Shirley Temple returns after nearly two years at school, in "Kathleen.” It is'a new* Shirlev Temple audiences are greeting. She is twelve years old now. She plays the most dramatic role she has ever appeared in, and has a new technique in singing, and an entirely new charm. The story deals with the lonely little daughter of a widowed millionaire who leaves the youngster alone with an ignorant, vicious nurse with the result that she becomes a "problem child." while her father becomes infatuated by a mercenary, heartless woman. Shirley is heard singing a song that will become popular. State: Now showing (till Thursday). -To The Shores of Tripoli.” starring John Pa>ne. Maureen O'Hara, Randolph Scott. This picture was photographed at the Marine Corps Base at San Diego. Here, equipped with the finest of weapons, hardened to actual combat conditions, with officers steeped in the traditions of the Corps, the United States Marines train to take their place with the fighters of the Allied Nations in every land and every clime to fight and to uphold their country''s honour. Regent: “The Prisoner of Zenda." Ronald Colman is at his charming best in this film version of the Anthony Hope romance of love and intrigue in the royal courts of Europe. Madeleine Carroll and Douglas Fairbanks, Jnr., head the supporting cast, which includes Mary Astor. C. Aubrey Smith. Raymond Massey, David Niven. Colman plays a dual role, appearing as the adventurous Rudolph Rassendyll and as King Rudolph V. the monarch lie impersonates. Miss Carroll appears opposite Colman as the lovely Princess Flavia. while Fairbanks is cast as the dashing Rupert of Henlzau. Sixty-two sets, ranging in size from a sentry-box 11c larger than a telephone booth, to a huge catnedral and two castles, were constructed for this picture.