AMUSEMENTS MAJESTIC THEATRE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21971, 24 May 1941, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS MAJESTIC THEATRE

“NEW MOON" Tire first Jeanette MacDonaldNelson Eddy film in more than a year is certain to break records. “New Moon,” featuring the two singing favourites, will open at the Majestic Theatre this afternoon. Admirers of the two singers will find their favourites in exactly the types of roles for which they were intended. Back again in the costumes and manners of the 178 O's. they transport their audience to another world, a world of imagination, song thrills and intrigue. Miss MacDonald's beauty as the lovely Marianne de Beaumanoir is rivalled only by her voice as she sings such popular favourites as “Lover Come Back to Me," “Marianne," “Paree." “Rondolet," "One Kiss,” and “Wanting You.” As the dashing Due de Villiers, Nelson Eddy is superb. His songs include the stirring “Stout Hearted Men” and the hauntingly lovely “Softly As in a Morning Sunrise.” Appearing in support of Miss MacDonald and Eddy is a strong cast headed by Mary Boland. STATE THEATRE "KITTY FOYLE" Marking the highlight of her remarkable career in motion pictures, Ginger Rogers has been awarded the coveted statuette of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences for the best actress of the year, for her performance as “Kitty Foyle,” thus confounding all those critics who have insisted, since the inception of her career, that she could never be more than a splendid dancer. To those who have seen “Kitty Foyle," showing at the State Theatre to-day, the award has not come as a surmise, for this film from Christopher Morley's “natural history of a woman” is said to be one of the most entertaining and extraordinarily absorbing pictures ever produced, with Miss Rogers's characterisation in the title role well-nigh perfect. She has so lost herself in the character she portrays, and the Rogers's personality has been so subjugated to such an extent that she really is Kitty Foyle. Dennis Morgan gives excellent support to Miss Rogers as the socialite, and James Craig, proves himself valuable as the faithful young doctor. Ernest Cossart, Eduardo Ciannelll, Gladys Cooper and other well-known players do exceptional work. REGENT THEATRE “IT ALL CAME TRUE” “It All Came True,” the film version of the famous Louis Bromfield story, which opens to-day at the Regent Theatre has Ann Sheridan in the starring role, and Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart and Zasu Pitts featured with her. Louis Bromfield, author of such fine novels as “The Rains Came" and others, now deals with the hopes and diappointments of a group of people living in a New York boarding house. With the intensity of plot and characterisation typical of Bromfield’s stories, he shows how these people, content to live in the reveries of their past, are suddenly thrown into a turmoil, when a gangster uses the boarding house as a hide-out. The moed and pace change smoothly from the fond old “Gay Nineties” in the disconcerting realities of the present. The songs are a good example of that. Ann Sheridan sings such old favouirtes as “Mr Dooley,” “Oh, Ynu Beautiful Doll,” and “Pretty Baby” ~ith the same distinctive quality that she sings the brand new rhumba, “Gaucho Serenade” and the sweet romantic ballad, “Angel in Disguise.” THEATRE ROYAL “DARK STREETS OF CAIRO" Spine tingling suspense, romance and laughter are offered in the melodrama “Dark Streets of Cairo” at the Theatre Royal. Unfolding against the glamorous background of modern day Egypt, the story revolves around the exciting adventures of a group of Americans who are menaced by underworld thieves after the excavation of a collection of priceless jewels from an ancient tomb. Veteran of many hilarious comedy roles in recent years. Eddie Quillan is featured with Sigrid Gurie and Ralph Byrd, Katherine DeMille, George Zucco, Rod Laßocoue and Yollande Mollot. Dorothv Darrell makes her screen debut in “Meet the Chump,” the supporting feature. Hugh Herbert is starred in the laugh riot.

THE GREAT LEVANTE The only things that you can see through in The Great Levante’s mystery-making, are the empty trunks before he fills mem in the shake of a magician’s wand, with beauteous maidens whom he can make appear and disappear with most useful ease The Great Levante will anpear at the Theatre Royal, Timaru. on Wednesday and Thursday next. An added attraction will be the acceptance of the challenge issued by the employees of The Farmers export and packing department who state they will make a packing case in which they think it is impossible for Levante to make his escape after they have secured him in it. Levante has accepted the challenge, and furthermore he states he will free himself from the case within 15 minutes without damaging it in any way. This is a feat which has not been attempted for many years, but the Great Levante, in accepting the challenge, states that if he cannot make his get-awav from the case in the prescribed time he will forfeit a donation to anv local charity the challengers wish to name. The box plans for this oi>ts““nd i ng attraction are now open at Beggs. Intending patrons are advised to book their seats, for the plans are sure to be rushed by the visit of this artist and his big English comoan”. '