ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21039, 15 February 1940, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

TCWNIGHT’S PROGRAMMES STATE THEATRE “There Goes the Groom” is a veryamusing comedy. Its funny situations and witty dialogue keep the audience chuckling, and the final scene comes all too soon. An exceptionally clever cast put over the comedy to the fullest effect, the players including Ann Sothern, who made such a hit in “ Hotel for Women Burgess Meredith, star of “ Winterset and Mary Boland, who is always very funny. “ Hawaiian Buckaroo ” is as exciting as its title suggests, while its romantic setting adds greatly to the effect. It is a picture with a real punch, being bright and snappy throughout, and with a very charming romance. Smith Ballow heads a very strong cast. THEATRE ROYAL “Mr Dear Miss Aldrich” tells the story of a teacher who inherits a newspaper. The managing editor, strong in the belief that no woman is fitted for work beyond the home, attempts to block her at every turn until, of course, he falls in love with her, with exciting and amusing results. “Navy Blue and Gold” is a very appealing story of navy adventure, with a strong cast headed by James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Young li.id Tom Brown. “MY SON IS A CRIMINAL” “My Son is a Criminal” and “Service de Luxe,” two entertaining and well-contrasted films, will be screened tomorrow. REGENT THEATRE “Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever” is splendid entertainment. Mickey Rooney falls in love with his pretty dramatics teacher in high school, and actually proposes. He writes the school play, stars in it with Ann Rutherford, builds a prop volcano for it. The play is a howl of mirth from start to finish. He took Romeo and Juliet for the story, moved it over to Tahiti, and let the Tahitian Juliet jump into a volcano. “GOOD-BYE, MR CHIPS” Robert Donat and Greer Garson are responsible for magnificent character portrayals in ‘-Good-bye, Mr Chips,” which will be screened on Saturday. Produced in England by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film recaptures in every detail the charming atmosphere of the original novel by James Hilton.

CIVIC THEATRE “The Lion Has Wings” continues !to draw large audiences. It tells how Great Britain gradually awoke to the menace of Hitlerism and the threat to the life and liberties of Europe, which tne German war machine proclaimed. It is particularly inspiring in its thrilling panoramas of British fliers and planes engaged in defence and attack. The film shows England’s vast preparation to fight, not because she wants to, but because she must repel Nazi bombers and give the Nazis a taste of their own aggression. In a series of fascinating shots the picture contrasts the spirit of the British, devoted to sport and progress, with the spirit of Nazi Germany preparing night and day for one purpose an done purpose only—war! One of the most interesting episodes of the film shows shots of the daring raid on the Kiel Canal. ROXY THEATRE A story which finds a notorious gambler and outlaw making travel by stage coach unsafe in the frontier West, and daring to murder and rob a man from whom he has just purchased cattle, starts a desperate man hunt in the “Hopalong Cassidy” action romance, “Sunset Trail.” William Boyd again plays “Hoppy,” the man who sets out to get the gambler and make the trail safe for travel. “The Vampire Bat” tells of the amazing adventures of an Austrian sleuth in endeavouring to track down a series of ghastly murders in a little Austrian village, where the inhabitants fear a terrible plague of bats. “HUCKLEBERRY FINN” “Huckleberry Finn,” starring Mickey Rooney, and “Valley of the Giants,” a beautiful all-coloured production, will be screened tomorrow.