AT THE PICTURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 6 August 1945, Page 4

AT THE PICTURES

Majestic: Finally to-night, “Desperate Journey.” To-morrow and on Wednesday. “Romeo and Juliet.” The programme for to-morrow will present the screen version of Shakespeare's story of “Romeo and Juliet,” with Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone, Edna May Oliver and C. Aubrey Smith in the chief characterisations. The famous play has been translated into a wonderfully entertaining film and patrons are assured of a really good programme.

State: Commencing Friday next, “The Way Ahead,” starring David Niven, one of the best pictures yet produced in England, featuring Stanley Holloway, Penelope Ward, John Laurie and Mary Jerold. This is a story of British soldiers of the army of to-day. It is the plain talc of typical Britons of this generation who were called up and joined the army. He went not always willingly, 'never vaihgloriously, using to the legitimate limit his privilege of grousing when he felt like it. He learned to be a soldier, he learned to be a humorist, he learned to be a good, gallant comrade in arms. He acquired the “Tommy” knack of getting the last laugh out df discomfort, of grinning even as he was fixing his bayonet, with the enemy coming on. The man became Tommy, who is there u’hen needed, in every generation.