AMUSEMENTS STATE THEATRE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21588, 26 February 1940, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS STATE THEATRE

“INTERMEZZO, A LOVE STORY” Ingrid Bergman, the beautiful young continental actress is introduced to Timaru audiences for the first time in the new David O. Selznick production. “Intermezzo, a Love Story,” in which she is co-starred with Leslie Howard and Edna Best. This new picture, a dramatic love story set in modern-day Europe, is showing at the State. Miss Bergman, a beauteous blonde with well chiselled features, plays the role of the other woman in “Intermezzo, a Love Story.” The story, briefly told, concerns a world-famous violinist who returns home to Stockholm to rejoin his wife and two children after a two years’ absence during which he became the sensation of continental Europe. Hoping to settle down to a quiet existence and to renew acquaintance with his family, he finds himself restless and anxious for a life of youth and gaiety. He urges his wife to accompany him bn a second honeymoon to the romantic places which he visited on tour but she explains , that her roots are in her home and that her children need her love and guidance. When he meets the lovely young pianist, he is strangely attracted to her. He cannot resist her charms and he goes off on another tour with her, leaving his family behind. How their affair finally winds up provides the film with an exciting and unexpected climax. REGENT THEATRE “BLIND ALLEY”—“TROPIC FURY” “Blind Alley” with Chester Morris and Ralph Bellamy and “Tropic Fury” with Richard Arlen and Andy Devine, will be screened again to-day. “Damaged Goods” “Damaged Goods,” Upton Sinclair’s adaptation of Eugene Brieux’ famous French play of the same name, will be screened to-morrow. It is a dramatic warning against ignorance, apathy and prudery and coincides with America’s million-dollar campaign. now in full swing, against the “red plague,” that dreaded scourge which yearly claims the lives of five times as many persons as are killed by automobile accidents. How an ambitious husband-to-be disdains the professional advice of ethical specialists and, lulled by the apathetic attitude of a “quack” doctor, marries, to become the father of a child infected before it is born, is an impelling major theme, a real life drama alive with screen possibilities, all of which Messrs Brieux and Sinclair have employed in this powerful picturisation of the famous play. MAJESTIC THEATRE “IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD” No happier combination of stellar players has been achieved in recent months than that of Claudette Colbert and James Stewart who are currently to be seen together at the Majestic in “It’s a Wonderful World.” Miss Colbert at last has found a delightful successor to her Academy Award winner, “It Happened One Night.” James Stewart was never more happily cast than as her partner in some of the craziest doings ever created for the screen. With amusing situations tumbling over one another, and sprightly dialogue rattling off the laughs at almost machine-gun pace, the story reveals Stewart in the role of Guy Johnson, private detective, hired to keep an irresponsible, oftmarried millionaire Broadway playboy out of trouble. When the millionaire is accused of murder. Stewart becomes involved. He escapes to seek a solution of the murder and is caught in the act by Miss Colbert who plays Edwina Corday, a poetess. The tale sweeps with unremitting energy from elaborate night club scenes to an apple orchard, from trains to yachts, from theatre to hot-dog stand, from auto camp to railroad trestle, motorboats and even Sing Sing prison, with hair-breadth escapes and spine-tick-ling murders to garnish the everdelightful bill of dramatic fare.