CURRENT PROGRAMMES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25800, 22 March 1945, Page 3

CURRENT PROGRAMMES

GRAND THEATRE A gay film, with plenty of music, romance, and comedy commenced a season at the Grand Theatre yesterday. It is entitled “ Ever Since Venus.” The captivating tunes played by Ina Ray Hutton and her orchestra, together with the antics of Billy Gilbert and Hugh Herbert, are featured in this new musical production. Prominent roles are filled by Ann Savage, Glenda Farrell, Ross Hunter, and Alan Mowbray. A second attraction is “ They Live in Fear,” a thrilling story of a Nazi youth who escaped from a German labour battalion to America. Featured in the film are Otto Kruger, Clifford Severn, Pat Parrish, and Jimmy Carpenter. The box plans are at the theatre and Begg’s. MAYFAIR THEATRE Pat O’Brien and Randolph Scott are co-starred in “Bombardier,” one of the year's most exciting air pictures, which heads the new bill at the Mayfair Theatre. * The story begins in Washington, with O’Brien as an experienced flyer who is an ardent advocate of the then little-known Norden bomb sight. O’Brien wins the support of his chiefs and a school where'young bomb aimers can be trained to operate the instrument is established. The details of a bomb aimer's life are vividly shown. Also showing is “My Learned Friend,” featuring Will Hay. OTHER THEATRES Regent Theatre.— -William Powell and Hedy Lamarr take the principal roles in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s comedy film, “The Heavenly Body.” St. James Theatre.—” Tennessee Johnson,” starring Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, and Ruth Hussey; and “At the Circus,” with the Marx Brothers, Empire Theatre.— Susanna Foster, Donald O’Connor, and Peggy Ryan are starred in the Universal comedy, “ This is the Life".’’ State Theatre. —Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie are featured with Dick Powell in the hilarious comedy, “It Happened To-morrow.” Strand Theatre.— Two comedy-mur-der films, “ Nine Lives are not Enough,” featuring Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, and James Gleason: and “ Murder in the Blue Room,” with Grace McDonald, Donald Cook, and Ann Gwy.nne. Octagon Theatre. —Anna Neagle and Richard Green appear with the English comedian Cyril Fletcher in the mys-tery-comedy film, “Yellow Canary.”