AT THE PICTURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 7 April 1945, Page 4

AT THE PICTURES

Majestic Theatre: Now showing, Barbara Stanwyck. Fred Mac Murray and Ed. G. Robinson in “Double Indemnity.” plus “Backdoor to Tokyo” (March of Time). In the main feature film Robinson is the claims manager of a big American insurance company and Mac Murray is the firm's crack salesman. On to the scene comes Miss Stanwyck as the crafty, longbobbed wife of a California business man. She loathes her middle-aged husband for she loathes her middle-aged husband and when Mac Murray arranges her husband's insux-ance they plan to carry out a coldblooded murder, which fails in its objective. thanks to the astute Mr Robinson. “Double Indemnity" is a particularly good thriller. State Theatre: Now screening, “The Dancing Masters,” starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy with Trudy Marshall, Bobert Bailey and Margaret Dumont. Laurel and Hardy are co.owners of a school of “terpsichorean art,” but neither knows a sailor’s hornpipe from his windpipe. They kindly come to the aid of Mary Harlan, one of their pupils, who is having boy-irlend trouble with her parents. They offer to assist her sweetheart, Grant Lawrence, in demonstrating his new flamethrowing machine to Mary's father in an effort to get the latter to finance production of the invention. Hilarious, fastmoving incidents lead'to a side-splitting *’*max.