AMUSEMENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25737, 8 January 1945, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES Octagon Theatre.—Uproarious comedy Js presented by Gracie Fields and Monty Woollev in the 20th Century.,-Fox production. " Holy Matrimony.” Grand Theatre. —Claire Trevor and Albert Dekker take the leading roles in “ The Woman of the Town.” with Barry Sullwan, Porter Hall, and Henry Hull, while William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy is starred in the associate picture, •• Mystery Man.’’ Regent Theatre—” Song of Russia, with Robert Taylor and Susan Peters, is a thrilling love story set against a background of Russian life. It is not a propaganda picture. State Theatre.—Humphrey Bogart takes the leading role in “-Sahara,’’--a stirring storv of the North African campaign. Empire Theatre.—Gloria Jean is starred with Ray Malone in the entertaining musical. “Moonlight in Vermont.” Strand Theatre.—" Minesweeper, • starring Richard Arlen and Jean Parker, and “ Moon Over Las Vegas,” with Anne Gwynne. David Bruce, and Vera Vague, provide an attractive double programme. St. James Theatre. —Lucille Ball, Dick Powell. Virginia O’Brien, and many others take the lead in “ Meet the People.” The associate feature is “ The Big Store,” starring the Marx Bros. Mayfair Theatre.—" So Proudly We Hail,” a love story of women at war, with Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Veronica Lake, and a Hal Roach comedy, “ The Devil with Hitler.”