STAGE and SCREEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 44, 22 February 1940, Page 10

STAGE and SCREEN

NEW PICTURES

DUCHESS THEATRE. To -morrow,' and Saturday: Tyrone Power anc.i Annabell in “Suez”; Monday and Tuesday: Douglas Corrigan in “Fly--ing Irishman,” and George OBrien hi ‘Trouble in Sundown’; \Vedne.--day and Thursday: Richaid Arlen i and the Ritz Bros, in “Straight, i Place and Show.” OPERA HOL SE.— Starting to-mor-row: “Here I am a Stranger,” with Richard Greene. Roland young and Brenda Joyce; on Tuesday: •Frontier Marshal,” with Randolph Scott. Cesar Romero and Binnie Barnes.; and “Mind of Mr. Reeder”; to-mo;-row week: Basil Rathbone. Ida i Lupino and Nigel Bruce in “Sher-, lock Holmes."

MAJESTIC THEATRE. — Commencing to-morrow: Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester in "The Beachcomber"; Tuesday: Lionel Barrymore and Bobs Watson in "On Borrowed Time’: Saturday week: "Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever,” with Mickey Rooney and Helen Gilbert. THEATRE.— Starting tomorrow; ‘ Pirates of the Skies, with Kent Taylor and Rochelle Hudson, and “Gangsters’ Boy”; Wednesday; “St. Louis Blues,” with Dorothy I amour and Lloyd Nolan, and “The Crime Nobody Saw”; Saturday: Hugh Herbert, Baby Sandy and Florence Rice in “Little Accident,” and “I’m From Missouri.'

Nelson Eddy has issued a fiat and official denial of the rumours which were spreading all over the film world recently that he was going blind. The rumour was found printed in the gossip column of an American newspaper. It was stated that Nelson Eddy visited Montreal to consult an eye specialist concerning an operation on the optic nerve. In his denial Nelson Eddy points out that he has never been in Montreal in his life, and that the only trouble with his sight is al slight astigmatism for which he wears' glasses off the screen.

Hollywood announces that M.G.M. plan to re-make the old religious spectacle "Quo Vadis?” with Robert Taylor in the lead. "It's a Date." will be Deanna Durbin’s next after "First Love," and then will come a film in technicolour with Charles Boyer. Bette Davis is to be teamed with John Gat field in "We Shall Meet 1 Again.” a story with a Honolulu back--1 ground.