ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20832, 16 June 1939, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES THEATRE ROYAL Fast action played against a unique background, a novel love story and more than the ordinary quantity of thrills and suspense are the highlight features of "Pirates of the Fkies." Featuring Kent Taylor and Rochelle Hudson, the picture embraces the newest branch of the state law-enforcement departments, the Air Police. Taylor is seen as a flying officer, an "air-copper.” The thrills and suspense arrive when he unwittingly stumbles on the solution of many bold and mysterious robberies which have mystified the state police. A district attorney who keeps tally of his kills with tiny skulls like a savage head-hunter! That is the central fipure of the powerful drama of neglected love, "Wives Under Suspicion." CIVIC THEATRE Meeting "Snow White,’’ the dainty, lovable little Princess, on the screen is the same as -greeting an old friend one has not seen for years. Her adventures begin when the wicked Queen. jealous of "Snow White’s" budding beauty, first degrades her to the level of a scullery maid. Even then the Queen's magic mirror informs tli o sovereign that "Snow White," though attired in raps, is still the fairest in the land. The palace huntsman is ordered to take the Princess to the forest and kill her. ! But he permits her to escape. She is befriended by the pitying birds and animals and finds refuge with the Seven Dwarfs in their woodland home. Thither comes the wicked yueen in the guise of a Witch. “Snow White" eals a bewitched apple given her by her rival, and falls into a death-like slumber. Then comes the handsome Prince and awakens her with a kiss. REGENT THEATRE Built around the experience of a wild chieftain of the Russian steppes who carries his career of plunder and bold defiance of the law to America with him, "Escape From Yesterday” tells what happens when United Slates law and order comes smack up against old world daring and shows the dilemma of two young lovers caught between the two. Akim Tamiroff, playing another of his great character roles, will be seen as the tempestuous and defiant Cossack who finds America too small to hold both his gang of riders and the government. The carefully-selected cast includes Frances Farmer and Leif Erikson, as the young couple, and Lynne Overman, as one of Tamiroff’#* fellow-convicts. “NAUGHTY MARIETTA" “Naughty Marietta,” starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, seems as though it will run forever, for it will be revived again to-mor-row, with all its romance and tuneful melodies. ROXY THEATRE “Everybody Sing,” featuring Judy Garland and Allan Jones, and “Kentucky Moonshine,” with the Ritz Brothers leading the funmaking, will' be screened to-day. “Everybody -Sing” is a sparkling production, with merry comedy, tuneful music and charming romance. Allan Jones and Judy Garland sing, Fanny Brice provides some very funny comedy, and Billie Burke gives another of her diverting " buttering mother” characterisations. Lynne Carver, Reginald Owen, and Reginald Gardiner help in the fun-making. “ Kentucky Moonshine ” shows the Ritz Brothers at their maddest and happiest, Tony Martin and Marjorie Weaver as the romantic leads, and Slim Summerville in an amusing characterisation. "A Criminal is Born" tells of the sensational exploits of the G-men, and there is also a coloured travelogue, “Beautiful Budapest!" STATE THEATRE Just imagine Jane Withers, with a band of Mexican outlaws, attempting to restore law and order to an Arizona town and you will get some idea of what hilarious proceedings must go on in “The Arizona Wildcat." This is just about the most exciting picture Jane has made and with Leo Carrillo cast in an important role as Jane’s adopted daddy, once a famous bandit, there should be a chuckle with every thrill and enough of both to make

"The Arizona Wildcat" an exceptional picture. The film starts off with high action when the stagecoach arrives in Mineville, Arizona, with the riddled bodies of the driver and two guards mute testimony they had been murdered and robbed of a gold shipment the coach had been carrying from the mine.

The authentic sound of the jungle, from the infuriated trumpet blare of the trapped African wild elephant to the ecstatic shrieks of frenzied rituals, are heard in "Dark Rapture," the Denis-Roosevelt picture of untrespassed Congo.