ST. JAMES THEATRE
TWO BIG COMEDIES Bob Hope is in the navy in his latest and funniest picture, entitled “ Give Me a Sailor,” which heads the new bul shown at the St. James Theatre yesterday. The life of the “ Gobs ” when they are away from the sea forms the comic background. The efforts of two brothers, Bob as the lovesick sailor and Jack Whiting, to win the same girl, the transformation of an ugly duckling, Martha Raye, into a scintillating beauty, and a nation-wide mil-lion-dollar legs contest are the basis of a plot chock-full of nautical nonsense. The supporting cast includes Betty Grable, J. C. Nugent, and Clarence Kolb. The second feature is the comedy “ Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert. Edward Everett Horton and David Niven are prominent in a supporting cast of a film that tells the story of a resourceful maiden who tames a man who discards his wives as casually as he would an old relic of a motor car. She meets him on the Riviera, snubs him in Vienna, makes him jealous in Paris, and finally puts him in a straitjacket—in a lunatic asylum. The box plans are at the D.I.C. and the theatre.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25238, 29 May 1943, Page 6
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202ST. JAMES THEATRE Otago Daily Times, Issue 25238, 29 May 1943, Page 6
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