AT THE PICTURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 29 September 1943, Page 4

AT THE PICTURES

Urgent Theatre: To-night j»d tomorrow night, “tomin' Round the Mountain” (a fast-moving comedy) and ••Victory.” Starring toother for the first tim”. Fredric March and Betty Field enact the leading roles in the Paramount picturisation of Joseph Conrad’s great novel. “Victory.” March plays a cynical island recluse whose faith in the world is restored through the love of a life-bruised voung girl. Betty Field. The locale of the romantic adventure story is. mainly, the island of Samburan. in the Dutch East Indies Just at the turn of the present century. State: To-night and Thursday. "Tlie Big Street.” starring Henry Fonda and l.ucille Ball, with “Range Rhythm.” starring Ray Whitley, and Disney Cartoon ••Canine Caddy.” The theme of "The Big Street” is the abject devotion of a bus boy in a Broadway cafe for a mercenary blonde beauty who treats him with haughty disdain. When her tactics lead to a quarrel with her gambler friend and he knocks her downstairs, crippling her for life, the bus boy comes to the rescue and begins an amazing campaign of deception with the sole purpose of keeping her happj\ Impoverishing himself to support the girl and borrowing right and left from his sympathetic pals, the boy encourages his petulant protege, and accepts her abuse smilingly. The dramatic ending which brings him his brief reward for hid sacrifices is a powerful one. Majestic Theatre: To-night and tomorrow. “Whistling in Dixie.” Red Skelton returns to the screen as "The Fox.” the detective character he portrayed in “Whistling in the Dark.” another screamingly funnv adventure film. "Whistling in Dixie." Skelton and Ann Rutherford, who plavs his sweetheart, find themselves enmeshed in a murder mystery in an old Southern town, and participate in one hilarious adventure after another. The story begins on the eve of Skelton and Ann Rutherford’s marriage, when she receives a frantic appeal for help from Diana Lewis whose fiance has disappeared and she wants Red to find him.