WANGANUI THEATRES

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 March 1947, Page 7

WANGANUI THEATRES

WEEK-END ATTRACTIONS. REGENT: “Suspense,” starring ice skater Belita, with Albert Dekker, Barry Sullivan and Bonita Granville. A mystery drama, with a love story and the spectacle of ice skating sequences giving added interest. MAESTIC: Rhapsody in Blue," the musical feast that was George Gershwin’s life story. Starring Robert Alra as Gershwin, with Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, and several well known figures in the musical world playing their real life roles. OPERA HOUSE: “Brief Encounter' " Noel Coward’s latest production, will be screened on Saturday, then again on Wednesday and Thursday. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard and Stanley Holloway are starred in this drama of the struggle between love and respectability. DUCHESS (Aramoho): “Demobbed." the hilarious slapdash British comedy, starring Nan Jackley, Norm Evans and Dan Young. Also screening at Saturday's matinee. MID-WEEK PROGRAMMES REGENT: "Divorce,"heralding the return to the screen of Kay Frances. This picture deals in dramatic fashion with what has happened to a nation’s moral standard. Bruce Cabot has the male lead. MAJESTIC: The stage production of Bodenwieser Viennese Ballet will replace picture screenings on Wednesday and Thursday. OPERA HOUSE: Ophir Rees’ stage show “Take it Easy" will b e presented on Monday and Tuesday, and will be followed by the continuation of the season of “Brief Encounter" on Wednesday and Thursday. DUCHESS: Tuesday and Wednesday, “Salome, Where She Danced," starring Yvonne De Carlo. Thursday-Fri-day: “The Big Noise” (Laurel and Hardy) and “Circumstancial Evidence" (Micheal O'Shea and Lloyd Nolan). NEXT WEEK-END REGENT: The Murphy-Jones fight, showing the full 12 rounds and the defeat of the New Zealand champion will be screened. The feature picture will be “£lOO Window,” a WarnerBritish racing film, starring Anne Crawford and David Farer. MAJESTIC: “Blue Skies," Bing Crosby's latest, and with him is starred Fred Astaire and Joan Caulfield. DUCHESS: “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” starring Ingrid Bergman and Bing Crosb';. * « • •. • MOST DIFFICULT MUSIC IN THE WORLD Fernado German!, the Pope’s favourite organist, is coming to London to play the most difficult piece of organ music in the world—Max Reger's Variations and Fugue (Op. 73), writes a Daily Telegraph columnist. The Reger work has only once been played in this country, in 1936, by a young Viennese organist, Friedrich Mihatsch. He tackled it as a “dare,” because his colleagues said that it was unplayable. Although it wa s published in 1904, no performance was attempted for over 30 years. German! himself never saw the score until his visit to London last November, when he told the Organ Music Society that he would “like to have a go at it.” He will play it at St. Luke's, Chelsea.