ENTERTAINMENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 126, 29 May 1944, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TO-DAY’S PROGRAMMES OPERA HOUSE. Moviegoers are given a barrel full of laughs at the Opera House, where 20th Century-Fox’s new romantic comedy, "Girl Trouble," starring Joan Bennett, and Don Ameche, made a jocular attempt to uncover a cinema solution to the very unjocular rubber I shortage. The film’s theme is based on the tribulations that beset, a young South American rubber magnate (our own Don Ameche) when he tkies to get a two million dollar contract, from the American "Rubber Tire King,” employing the aid of a Park Avenue citizen, beautiful oJan Bennett. Joan, of course, is motivated by love, so much so that she takes a job as Ameche’s maid. The picture, on a most timely subject—rubber!—is a welcome relief in such times of crucial newspaper headlines, and leaves one in a gayer mood—even about rubber tires! MAJESTIC THEATRE. The dramatic story of a courageous woman who marries within the enemy’s gates in order to save her country, even though her heart was with her brave young Commando, is promised patrons of the Majestic Theatre to-day, when "First Comes Courage." co-starring Merle Oberon and Brian Aherne, is the feature. It is said to be a powerful theme, woven into a background of romance, intrigue and action. Miss Oberon and Mr. Aherne, in the leading roles, portray lovers who are forced to put their personal lives aside for the exigencies of war, snat*‘hrng brief moments together when duty to country permits. She is a woman of high birth in a conquered town in Norway, he a British Commando Captain. They had loved before the war a love interrupted by the world conflict. The lovers meet again, and the final scenes of their escape from the Germans (luring a big commando raid, are said to reach a now high in Him drama. KE<iENT THEATRE. George Zucco. celebrated charat ( actor, gives a very impressive j % formanee in the P.R.C. thrill-dran? "The Black Raven," which screens at. the Regent Theatre to-day. The action ’ takes place in and around a tavern called the Black Raven run by Zucco near the Canadian border. Fie is on-