WANGANUI THEATRES

Wanganui Chronicle, 28 November 1947, Page 7

WANGANUI THEATRES

WEEK-END ATTRACTIONS. Opera House: “Caesar and Cleopatra.” Vivien Leigh, Claude Raines. Majestic: “A Woman Destroyed." i Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman, Marsha Hunt. Regent: “China's Little Devils." Harry Carey, Paul Kelly. MID-WEEK SCREENINGS. Opera House: Extended season of "Caesar and Cleopatra.” Majestic: "29 Acacia Avenue," the record-breaking British comedy. Gordon Harker, Jimmy Hanley, Jill Evans. Regent: “The Buccaneer." Frederick March. NEXT WEEK-END. Opera House: “London Town," the British musical. Syd Field, Claude Hulbert, Greta Gynt. Majestic: “The Time, the Place and the Girl." Dennis Morgan. Jack Carson, Janice Page. Regent: “Nobody Lives Forever." John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald. Veteran Actor Sir C. Aubrey Smith reported to Paramount for his role as Sir Bernard Grenfell, jurist, in the Cecil B. De Mille Technicolour epic, “Unconquered." The veteran actor presides at the first degree murder trial of Paulette Goddard, as the slave girl Abbv Hale, in London’s famous court, Old Bailey. ' Co-starring in “Unconquered” also is Gary Cooper. Power And The Suez Tyrone Power has scheduled a stop at Port Said on his current air flight around Africa. “Ever since I dug the Suez Canal in 'Suez,'" he said, "I've been wanting to see the base of my operations.'

A group of 42 professional rodeo performers and stunt horse riders were signed recently to portray a gang of hard-riding fast-shooting lawless hoodlums in “Silver City," Paramount colour film for release. Tile expert horsemen appear in three sequences. Their galloping gunfight will be filmed at Placentas Ranch, near Newhall, under direction Ray Enright. “Silver City," story of that city's tight to exist in 1878, co-stars Randolph Scoit, Barabara Britton and George "Gabby” Hayes with Russell Hayden, Catherine Craig and Lon Chaney.