OPERA HOUSE
“THIEF OF BAGDAD Against backgrounds which have never before been equalled for pictorial brilliance and sweeping - taele. Alexander Korda's great I’echnicolour adventure romance. The Thief of Bagdad," starring Saini. Conrad Vcidt. June Duprez and John Justin, will conclude at the Opera House to-morrow. There will be no screening to-night, as the theatre is jngaged. “Major Barbara” George B< rnard Shaw's play. •Major Barbara," in the screen version, will be seen on Friday at the Dpera House. In it are Wendy Hiller, star of “Pygmalion." Rex Harrison, ind Robert Morley. The film is outstanding not only for the work of the three principals, but for the excellence )f the cast. The stamp of Shaw himself is on the picture as on the play; ind although a generation has elapsed dnee the peaceful period in which ihav first wrote “Major Bai ira lis parable fas he himself calls it) fits iptly into this age of war an age in vhich the much-reviled trade of irmament manufacture has become tothing less than democracy's lifeinc.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 231, 1 October 1941, Page 7
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173OPERA HOUSE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 231, 1 October 1941, Page 7
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