ACADEMY THEATRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8836, 23 October 1942, Page 2

ACADEMY THEATRE

CURRENT PROGRAMMES “You’ll Never Get Rich,” which is showing at the Academy to-night,, has been hailed as the most spectacular musical extravaganza ever filmed in Hollywood. It brims over with laughter and gaiety and lovely girls against the background of Cole Porter’s tuneful new lyrics'. And it provides the nimble-footed Fred Astaire with the best partner he’s ever had—the beautiful, vivacious, much publicised Miss Rita Hayworth. Supporting the principals in “You’ll Never Get Rich,” which has a delightful and topical story, are such prominent screen personalities as Robert Benchley, John Hubbard, Frieda Inescort, Osa Massen and a host of other comedy and character players. As well, there is a dazzling chorus of ninety-eight beauties. Porter’s .tunes, written exclusively for the film of course, will set the whole country whistling and humming. They include “So Near and Yet So Far,” “Dream Dancing,” “Since I Kissed My Baby Good-bye,” “The Wedding Cake Walk,” “Shootin’ the Works for Uncle Sam” and “The Boogie Barcarolle.”

Written about the thousands of American youths recruited in private schools for the air service of Uncle Sam, “Flying Cadets,” featuring William Gargan, Edmund Lowe and Peggy Moran, will show at the Academy Theatre to-morrow. The picture finds Lowe in the glove-fitting role of a handsome, dare-devil hero of the skyways during the World War days who doesn’t realise that his age is overtaking him. With William Gargan in the title role, Columbia’s “A Close Call for Ellery Queen” will also be shown tomorrow. The suave sleuth of fiction and screen fame is here confronted with a varied assortment of clueless crimes, including a triple homicide, blackmail and the mysterious disappearance of some 50,000' dollars in small bills. Contributing to the excitement are Margaret Lindsay, who again is seen as Nikki Porter, Queen’s lovely young secretary, and Charles Grapewin, as Inspector Queen, Ellery’s father. An imposing line-up of stellar names heads the cast of Walter Wanger’s “Slightly Honourable,” a modern-day story to be screened on Monday. Based on a true but composite picture of what goes on behind the scenes in some of the American cities, “Slightly Honourable” presents a daring and exciting story of inside scandal in the upper brackets. The attraction for Tuesday and Wednesday next will be “49th Parallel,” a war-time adventure melodrama, describing the reception which awaits six members of a Nazi Üboat crew who land surreptitiously at Hudson’s Bay, Canada, and set out to bludgeon their way to the American border. They meet with stern opposition at a trading post and a Hutterite settlement and find more than their match in an English aesthetic and a Canadian soldier. Capture or death is the stern fate of them all.

MINERS’ THEATRE PROGRAMME FOR TO-MORROW Action fans will find a 14-carat nugget of entertainment when Hopalong goes on the trail of a lost gold mine in Paramount’s “Pirates on 'Horseback,”' newest action-filled Harry Sherman picture starring William Boyd apd his partners, and which will screen at the Miners’ Theatre to-morrow.