ENTERTAINMENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 12, 15 January 1944, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE. Spencer Tracy -and Katharine Hepburn figure in a drama of newspaperdom for the second time in "Keeper of the Flame,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s graphic adaptation of I. A. R. Wylie’s best-selling novel, which comes to the Majestic Theatre to-day. Tracy, as a newspaperman, investigating the death of a noted American leader, falls in love with his widow, played by Miss Hepburn, and a dramatic situation eventuates when his investigations turn the finger of suspicion on her. Tracy’s role is sometimes whimsical, sometimes grimly dramatic, and Miss Hepburn rises to emotional heights in the gripping climax. Richard Whorf, newcomer from the Broadway stage, plays a sinister role compellingly, and Margaret Wycheriy, Audrey Christie, Horace McNally, Donald Meek. Frank Craven and Darryl Hickman are among the principals. OPERA HOUSE Rosalind Russell and Fred Mac Murray share stellar honors in "Flight for Freedom,” which comes to the public of Wanganui at the Opera House today. The picture suggests an "inside story” behind the Navy’s triumphant task-force attacks on the Marshalls and the Gilberts and the other fortified areas in the mandated islands of the South Pacific, closelv following the outbreak of war with Japan. Miss Russell plays the part of the feminine pilot, Tonie Carter. Through the years she has met and loved the famous aviator, Randv Britton, but it is her old teacher. Paul Turner, whom she nlans to marry when she returns from her final cruise through the skies. The popular Miss Russell has what is per-

haps her most powerful role to date as Tonie, with Mac Murray in a dramatic and colorful portrayal of the dashing Randy. Herbert Marshall, featured as Paul, heads the supporting cast. REGENT THEATRE. A sensational new combination reaches the screen in the teaming of Ann Corio, the famous burlesque queen, and Buster Crabbe, the Olympic swimming champion and popular western star. They are to be seen together in P.R.C.’s story of adventure in the African wilds, “Jungle Siren,” which screens at the Regent Theatre to-day. The story is given a timely twist with Buster Crabbe as an American serving in the Free French forces in Africa, meeting up with Ann in the jungle as he makes a survey for an air field. He finds the girl queening over a tribe of friendly natives, and opposing the efforts of a Chiel Schlangi who is working with a Nazi secret agent to win the warriors over to the enemy. The associate feature. “Foreign Agent,” stars John Skelton in a spy drama. DUCHESS THEATRE With Pat O’Brien and George Murphy in its leading roles, "The Navy Comes Through,” which screens at the Duchess Theatre to-day, is a thrilling action-romance, the first to come out of Hollywood dramatising the Battle of the Atlantic.