FILMS & PLAYERS

Southland Times, Issue 24649, 22 January 1942, Page 3

FILMS & PLAYERS

Further exciting adventures of the screen’s most colourful crime-breaking hero are revealed in “The Saint in Palm Springs,” which begins at the State Theatre on Friday with George Sanders in the title role. Wendy Barrie has the feminine lead and Jonathan Hale reappears as The Saint’s friendlyenemy, Inspector Fernack. The film deals with the efforts of Simon Templar, The Saint, to deliver three valuable foreign stamps to a young lady who has inherited them. He assumes the responsibility as a favour to Inspector Fernack, who wants to befriend the

A war-time romance is presented in “One Night in Lisbon,” which begins at the Regent Theatre on Saturday with Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray in the leading roles. It tells the story of Leonora, a beautiful English girl with a great belief in the proprieties and, apart from the war, a life which is more or less mapped out in front of her in a series of pleasant but conventional situations. While sheltering in an air raid shelter during a raid on London, she meets and is a little overwhelmed by Dwight Huston a young American who cares nothing for

The character of Hopalong Cassidy was created many years ago by the novelist, Clarence E. Mulford; but it was the astute production of Harry Sherman and the acting of William Boyd which made Jiim a living figure. Boyd supplies the real personality, the driving action and quick smile of this famous western character. The latest picture in the series, “Hidden Gold,” comes to the Majestic Theatre on Friday. It tells of a gang of robbers who

daughter of an old friend. She is working as a tennis teacher at a California winter resort. Before The Saint reaches the West Coast from New York he encounters on the train a beautiful foreign agent who, unsuccessful in her attempt to gain possession of the stamps, follows The Saint to Palm Springs. But also at the resort hotel are three gangsters who have heard the three stamps are worth over 200,000 dollars.

From this point the story becomes more exciting, as all persons involved work at cross-purposes in their desperate attempts to steal the legacy.

the conventions. When he sees a lovely young girl who will have nothing to do with him because they do not know anything about “each other’s people,” he proceeds to break down the barriers of reserve which has made Leonora the ice maiden she pretends to be. Dwight proceeds to lay seige to his lady by methods which at first apall and, later attract her. Leonora is chaffeuse to a lord in the War Office, and when romance takes her to Lisbon he does not scruple to use her as a decoy to round up a group of Nazi spies who have been giving a certain amount of trouble.

are stopping gold shipments and who manage to point suspicion away from themselves to an innocent man. Then “Hopalong” rides into the story, accompanied by his two inseparable pals, “Lucky” and “Speedy.” Some shrewd detective work clears up the mystery, and at the close of the story there is hard riding and quick gun play as the outlaws are brought to justice. Russell Hayden, Ruth Rogers, Minor Watson and Britt Wood lead the supporting cast.