AMUSEMENTS STATE THEATRE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21784, 14 October 1940, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS STATE THEATRE

” THE RAINS CAME ” The over popular Leslie Charteris character. Simon Templer. will appear finally at the State Theatre to-day in "The Saint Takes Over.” “ The Rains Came ” Darryl F. Zanuck’s production of "The Rains Came.” the great novel by Louts Brcmfield. starring Myrna Loy. Tyrone Power and George Brent, opens to-morrow at the State Theatre. All the strangely-assorted humans of the novel, cut off from the world, with life a fading hope and love a desperate longing—while the angry forces of nature swirled the earth from beneath them—live again in this 20th CenturyFox film. Featured in the imposing supporting cast are Brenda Joyce, the sensational new Zanuck discovery; Nigel Bruce, Maria Ouspenskaya, Joseph Schildkraut. Mary Nash. Jane Darwell. Marjorie Rambeau, HenryTravers and H. B. Warner. An unusual and absorbing idea in I mystery films is the associate feature on the programme. “The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk.” From the outset of the film, when a murder is committed, the audience and the police know at once who committed the crime; the mystery is the identity of the killer and Ins motive. REGENT THEATRE " GERONIMO ’ "Geronimo” which opened at the I Regent on Saturday, is spectacular ' entertainment. It compares more than | favourably with such screen epics as "Union Pacific” "Wells Fargo” and I “The Plainsman.” The cast includes I Preston Foster. Ellen Drew. Andy i Devine and Gene Lockhart. "Geronimo” ] is the story of an Indian who defied the intrusion of the White man to the I old West. “She Couldn’t Say No” is an I English comedy with all the ingredients . of a great laugh maker. Tommy Trinder. Fred Emney and Greta Gynt have the leading roles. MAJESTIC THEATRE ” ANOTHER THIN MAN ” I “Thin Man” William Powell gets his I man again and “Mrs Thin Man.” I Myrna Loy keeps her man in this daffy and delightful, merry and mystifying I renewal of the Thin Man series. With Asia, the dog comedian of a nation, and a Baby Thin Man, they are now at the Majestic Theatre. In this third picture of the series, for which moviegoers all over the world have been waiting impatiently, the story Is brandnew and different, but it contains all the thrill and chills, the mystery and suspense, the laughs and hilarious gags that made the "Thin Man” and "After the Thin Man” instantaneous hi's Detective Nick Charles and his wife. Nora, are the same gay pair who laugh their way through a spine-tingling ! murder chase and prove you can be romantic though married and happy though hitched. THEATRE ROYAL " CALL OF THE YUKON ” "Zanzibar” and “International Crime” will screen finally at the Theatre Royal to-night. “Call of the Yukon,” to be presented to-morrow, is I a tale-of love in the Arctic westlands! . Jean Williams 'Beverly Roberts) has gone far into Northern Alaska for material for a novel which she is writing. The little Eskimo village where she is staying has been plagued by a roving band of wolves, led by a half-wolf, half-dog called Swift Lightning. The Wolves have killed all wild life, and the natives are forced to I flee southward. Hugo (Lyle Talbot) a trader, tries to get Jean to leave with them, but she refuses. The sequel is most gripping. ”A Bride for Henry,” the associate feature, is a mirthful production featuring Warren Hull and Anne Nagel.