ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21051, 1 March 1940, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TO=MGHT’S PROGRAMMES STATE THEATRE Laurel and Hardy, Hollywood’s popular comedy team, return to the screen in “The Flying Deuces,” their first feature-length comedy in more than a year. This time the comics have taken to the airways as a background for their misadventure, a thrilling and hilarious climax being provided in the final sequence, when the boys, as two Foreign Legionaires sentenced to die for desertion, take flight in an endurance ship. The colourful background of Morocco and the Legion provides a natural and dramatic setting for pageantry and tomfoolery. Comedy highlights follow in rapid succession throughout the picture. There is the hilarious sequence where Stan encounters difficulty in performing his ablutions at a French inn’s washstand. Later, planning of a double suicide is equally amusing. “The Man Who Dared,” featuring Jane Bryan and Charles Graham, is a thrilling melodrama, with a charming romance. THEATRE ROYAL A human, hilarious story of life as it is lived in a typical American home is told in the comedy, “Night Work.” The picture deals with the “Fitches,” that lovable, riotous family which made its screen deput in “Boy Trouble.” Mary Boland and Charlie Ruggles again play the harassed heads of the “Fitch” family. This time they are taking legal steps to adopt “Butch,” an orphaned youngster (played by Donald O'Connor) when the youngster’s testy grandfather arrives on the scene, with amusing results. A drama which plunges boldly into the world of tomorrow, one which show's a brilliant young scientist fighting courageously to keep his discoveries out of the hands of enemy powers, which finds him falling in love with a lovely girl via television across three thousand miles of space, is brought to the screen in “Television Spy.” CIVIC THEATRE “Eternally Yours” is a comedy, brilliantly directed, and played by a cast of outstanding players, including Loretta Young, David Niven, Billie Burke, Hugh Herbert, Zasu Pitts, Broderick Crawford and Ralph Graves. Briefly, the story of “Eternally Yours” revolves around a magician noted all over the world for his spectacular magic and his ingratiating personality. He falls in love with and marries a stunning girl whom he meets at one of his matinees, and thereafter his success soars to new heights. Their life in all the brilliant capitals of the world grows more and more hectic. But while the magician, as the Great Arturo, thrives in this atmosphere, Anita, his wife, begins to long for peace and quiet. When she fails to persuade him to follow her to a Connecticut farmhouse, she leaves him. Thereafter, he begins a frantic pursuit of his wife, only to find her when it is too late. Anita has divorced the Great Arturo and married a schoolboy chum. In a thrilling climax, however, Arturo wins his wife back and they resume their interrupted romance. A March of Time film will also be shown. ROXY THEATRE “The Great Waltz,” with its melodious melodies, charming romance and spectacular settings, and “Bulldog Drummond’s Bride,” a sensational drama, will be screened tonight. “The Great Waltz,” dealing with one of the most romantic characters in history and with the Vienna of the days of Franz Josef when that capital was a synonym for gaiety and music, makes use of impressionistic devices in many forms to tell its story. Strauss’ inspiration to compose “Tales of the Vienna Woods,” for instance, is told in sequences in which he and the woman he loves roam the woods, while the song of birds, the tinkling of a - brook, a shepherd’s horn, and other natural sounds are woven into a tone poem depicting his inspiration. “Bulldog Drummond” goes on his most thrilling adventure in pursuit of a daring, dangerous bank robber in “Bulldog Drummond’s Bride.” REGENT THEATRE “Maisie” is one of the most amusing comedies seen in Hamilton, with Ann Sothern giving a very fine performance as the wise-cracking girl of the title role. Robert Young in a straight dramatic part makes a decided departure from his more familiar rib-tickling characterisations and proves himself an actor who knows his business. As the woman-hating ranch manager who through circumstantial evidence is put on trial for the murder of his boss, he gives a convincing performance. “LADY OF THE TROPICS” “Lady of the Tropics,” a romance featuring Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylor, will be screened tomorrow. It tells a thrilling story with an atmosphere, and the tense interest of the audience is held throughout. Hedy Lamarr is one of the most exotic personalities of the screen, and Robert Taylor, of course, is always popular.