AT THE THEATRES

Southland Times, Issue 24180, 17 July 1940, Page 8

AT THE THEATRES

REGENT NOW SHOWING.—“THE UNDER PUP” (Gloria Jean, Robert Cummings, Nan Grey). Gloria Jean wins fame as a yotmg singer and actress in a film which tells the attractive story of a poor girl and her lovable but eccentric family. There are romantic developments when Gloria faces ridicule at an exclusive summer camp. BEGINNING SATURDAY.—“GULLIVER’S TRAVELS” (Feature-length technicolour cartoon). COMING ATTRACTIONS—“HIS GIRL FRIDAY” (Cary Grant. Rosalind Russell. Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack); “BABES IN ARMS” (Mickey Rooney. Judy Garland); “BALALAIKA” (Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charles Ruggles. Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, C. Aubrey Smith, Dalies Frantz); “RETURN TO YESTERDAY” (Clive Brook, Anna Lee, Dame May Whitty). MAJESTIC NOW SHOWING—“THANKS FOR THE MEMORY” (Bob Hope, Shirley Ross. Otto Kruger, Charles Butterworth) and “BACK DOOR TO HEAVEN” (Wallace Ford. Patricia Ellis, Stuart Erwin. Aliene MacMahon). BEGINNING FRIDAY—“LITTLE ACCIDENT” (Baby Sandy, Hugh Herbert, Florence Rice, Edgar Kennedy, Joy Hodges) and “WOMEN IN THE WIND” (Kay Francis, William Gargan, Victor Jory). In “Little Accident,” Baby Sandy repeats the triumphs of her earlier pictures. The story deals with the surprising adventures of Hugh Herbert as the worried editor of a newspaper whose job is saved when Sandy is abandoned in his office. COMING ATTRACTIONS—“THE BOY FROM BARNADOS” (Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney); “SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES” (Gene Autry); “ISLAND OF LOST MEN” (Anna May Wong. J. Carrol Naish, Antony Quinn. Eric Blore); “KID NIGHTINGALE” (John Payne, Jane Wyman). STATE NOW SHOWING. —“MEXICAN SPITFIRE” (Lupe Velez. Leon Errol. Donald Woods, Cecil Kellaway) and “TUGBOAT MICKEY” (Walt Disney Car- j toon). BEGINNING FRIDAY—“HOTEL FOR WOMEN” (Jean Rogers, Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell. James Ellison. Lynn Bari, Elsa Maxwell, John Halliday, Alan Dinehart, Amanda Duff, June Gale, Joyce Compton). Some of Hollywood’s most beautiful girls appear in a film which exploits a new idea. It reveals the romance and comedy of a hotel run ex- ! clusively for women, and gives Elsa ! Maxwell, famous American hostess, her first screen role. | COMING ATTRACTIONS.—“OF MICE AND MEN” (Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney, jnr.).

CIVIC NOW SHOWING—“CHARLIE CHAN AT MONTE CARLO” (Warner Gland. Keye Luke, Virginia Field, Sidney Blackmer, Harold Huber, Kay Linaker, Robert Kent) and “LITTLE TOUGH GUY” (Tire Dead End Kids). BEGINNING FRIDAY. —“THE RAINS CAME” (Myrna Loy. Tyrone Power, George Brent, Clarence Brown) and “SWORD OF HONOUR” (Geoffrey Toone, Sally Gray, Dorothy Dickson). “Sword of Honour” is said to be the most ambitious military picture ever made at a British studio. Its background is the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, where every phase of the training of officers is faithfully and accurately shown. COMING ATTRACTIONS—“CHECKERS” (Jane Withers. Stuart Erwin. Una Merkel); “BLIND ALIBI” (Richard Dix. Whitney Bourne. Eduardo Ciannelli); “OUTSIDE THE THREE MILE LIMIT” (Jack Holt, Harry Carey, Sig Rumann. Donald Briggs. Irene Ware. Dick Parcell); “FIRST OFFENDERS” (Walter Abel, Beverly Roberts, Iris Meredith). THEATRE ROYAL, WINTON WEDNESDAY—“RETURN OF THE CISCO I KID” (Warner Baxter). FRIDAY AND SATURDAY—"BROADWAY SERENADE” (Jeanette MacDonald). COMING ATTRACTIONS.—“ARIZONA LEGION” (George O'Brien); “ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE;” “THE PRACTICAL PIG” (Walt Disney Special). THE EMPIRE, RIVERTON SATURDAY—“THE MAD MISS MANTON” (Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda). COMING ATTRACTIONS—“RETURN OF THE FROG” (Gordon Harker. Una O'Conner); “STABLEMATES” (Mickey Rooney, Wallace Beery); “CLOUDS OVER EUROPE” (Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson). ' OTAUTAU SATURDAY:—“YOU CAN'T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN” (W. C. Fields, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen). COMING ATTRACTIONS:—“THE MAD MISS MANTON” (Barbara Stanwyck. Henry Fonda); “SPIRIT OF CULVER” | (Jackie Cooper, Freddie Bartholo- I mew).