AT THE PICTURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 23 February 1945, Page 4

AT THE PICTURES

Majestic: Finally to-night, Chester Morris and Jean Parker in “I Live on Danger” and the Andrews Sisters in “Swingtime Johnny.” Commencing Saturday, Ann Sheridan with Jack Oakie and Jack Haley in “Navy Blues” (plus episode 3, “Don Winslow” at matinee only). In “Navy Blues” sailors Jack Oakie and Jack Haley try to filch their shipmates’s paychecks and pawn their batUeship’s trophies with almost disastrous results; Ann Sheridan both, calls and collars her man Herbert Anderson; and Martha Raye chasing her ex-husband. Jack Haley, gets thrown into gaol accused of being an international spy. The plot revolves around the efforts of Oakie and Haley to see that their battleship, the Montana, wins the fleet gunnery championship, and that they win the bets which they have made at 15 to 1 with the tars of the Wisconsin.

State: Now screening (till Tuesday), “the SuUivans,” 20th Century -Fox’s sincere production of the story of the year, about the family of the year. They’re the kind of people you want to be in the kind of picture you want to see. Anne Baxter as “Katharine Mary" and Thomas Mitchell as "Dad,” head the brilliant cast with the five famous brothers played by Edward Ryan, John Campbell, James Cardwell. John Alvin, and George Offerman. jnr. Selena Royal appears as "Ma,” while Trudy Marshall is seen as “Gfen.” The box Elans are now open at Begg’s. All matinee ookings at the theatre.

Richmond Theatre: To-morrow at 2.15 and 8 p.m., Rafael Sabatini’s story of the sea “The Black Swan.” starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O’Hara. Supports include coloured cartoon “Shipyard Symphony,” "When Winter Calls,” “Wofker and War Front,” plus three special newsreels.