AMUSEMENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25674, 24 October 1944, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES Empire Theatre.—Heralded as one of Hollywood’s best comedies, “ Standing Room Only ” features Paulette Goddard and Fred Mac Murray. An associate attraction is “ The Memphis Belle." Strand Theatre.—The “ East Side Kids ” —Led Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and Bobby Jordan—in their latest film, “Ghosts on the Loose,” and Mabel Paige and John Craven in “ Someone to Remember. ‘

St. James Theatre. Citizen,” the stirring story of the indomitable courage of the people of Britain, featuring Edward Rigby, Stanley Holloway, George Robey, and Mabel Constanduros.

Octagon Theatre.—Briar. Aherne. Merle Oberon, Charles Laughton, Herbert Marshall, Anna Neaglc, Ray Milland, Ida Lupino, and Robert Cummings are only a few of the 70 screen favourites in

“ For Ever and a Day.” Grand Theatre.—A complete western programme showing William Boyd in another of the “ Hopalong ” Cassidy series, “ False Colours,” and Noah Beery, jun„ and Jimmy Rogers in “ Prairie Chickens.” Regent Theatre.—” Thousands Cheer,” a technicolor musical production, with many favourites, including Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Marv Astor, and John Boles, assisted by Jose Iturbi and (the orchestras of Kay Kyser, Benny Carter, and Bob Crosby. State Theatre. —The story of the infamous criminal, “ Jack the Ripper,” is brought to the screen by George Sanders, Merle Oberon, Laird Cregar, and Sir Cedric Hardwicke in “ The Lodger." Mayfair Theatre.—Lionel Barrymore in “Dr Gillespie’s New Assistant,” which also features Susan Peters, Richard Quine, Nat Pendleton, and Van Johnson, and “ Five Graves to Cairo,” starring Franchot Tone, Ann Baxter, and Akim Tamiroff.