WANGANUI THEATRES

Wanganui Chronicle, 31 January 1947, Page 7

WANGANUI THEATRES

WEEK-END ATTRACTIONS. MAJESTIC: “Conflict," starring Humphrey Bogart and Alexis Smith with Sydney Greenstreet. The story of a successful young architect who through an emotional conflict between two women attempts the perfect crime. . REGENT: “Pillow to Post,” Ma Lupino is a charming saleswoman who gets herself into hilarious complications in a soldier loose army town. William Prince and Sydney Greenstreet provide complications. OPERA HOUSE: "Getting Gertie's Garter,” a snappy comedy in the romantic vein, starring Dennis O'Keefe, Marie McDonald, with Barry Sullivan, Binnie Barnes and J. Carrol Naish. MID-WEEK PROGRAMMES. MAJESTIC: “The Runaboat.” Ella Raines and Ron Cameron are starred in this romantic comedy screening for three days. REGENT: “Pardon My Past," starring Fred McMurray and Marguerite Chapman. A sophisticated comedy. OPERA HOUSE: A double feature bill, screening commencing at 7.30. "Whistle Stop,” starring George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor McLagan and Tom Conway, and the comedy "Young and Willing," starring William Holden, Eddie Bracken and Susan Hayward. NEXT WEEK-END MAJESTIC: "Devotion," a melodrama, teaming Bette Davis and Paul Henreid. REGENT: "The Very Thought ot You.” Dennis Morgan and Eleanor Parker are the stars in this comedy. OPERA HOUSE: “Smqky," a Technicolour outdoor picture, starring "Smoky," and on the human side, Fred Mac Murray, Anne Baxter and Burl Ives.

METRO RELEASES FOR THE NEW SEASON Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is one film manufactory which apparently has no qualm s about a shortage of product ir the next year or so. Following a recent solemn conclave of ranking executives, Metro announced a backlog of 31 completed and as yet unreleased feature films. The reason for this, according to the company, is due to the "slower absorption of important pictures by the market at the present time.” Furthermore, present plans call for a maximum of 24 new pictures to go into production this year, “unless a change in existing conditions requires more." Three of the studio’s more ambitious projects have gone into production recently, including “.Green Dolphin Street." with Lana Turner, Van Heflin, and Donna Reed; “A Love Story,” starring Katharine Hepburn, Paui Henreid, and Robert Walker; and “The Birds and the Bees," with Jeanette MacDonald. Jose Iturbi, and Jane Powell. “The Hucksters." will be next on the sound stages. • • • *

POPULAR NOVEL AND PLAY FILMED “The late George Apley," John P. Marquand’s 1938 novel about Beacon Street’s rejection of the Twentieth Century, which was dramatised for Broadway in 1944 by Marquand and George S. Kaufman, ha s completed its cycle and now is in the cutting rooms at Twentieth Century - Fox. The screen version, according to its producer, Fred Kohlmar, owes more to the play than it does to the novel, the action having been compressed into a brief period in the year 1912 in the Philip Dunne scenario, as it was in the Broadway version . Similarly, the movie plot involves the romantic affairs of the two younger Apleys, played by Peggy Cumnqins and Richard Ney, and the only major deviation from the stage play is the elimination of the epilogue which served as a third act and its replacement by a conventional denouement with marriages all around. Joseph Mankicwicz directed the screen version, with Ronald Colman and Edna Best playing the late George and his wife, following in the Broadway footsteps of Leo G. Carroll and Janet Beecher.