ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 29241, 11 October 1940, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES REGENT THEATRE “London’s Reply to German Claims.” a pictorial record made by a neutral- observer of a tour through London on August 23, just after German broadcasts had asserted the city was a mass of ruins, will be screened today and tomorrow. With Conracl Veidt, Valerie Hobson and Sebastian Shaw in the featured roles, “U-Boat 29” bears an amazing resemblance at times to recent events abroad. Particularly is this true in the case of the thrilltense climax of the film, in which a passenger vessel, laden with women and children, is torpedoed by an undersea craft. For the most part, however, “U-Boat 29” confines itself to the bitter struggle between an enemy agent and the counter-espion-age network. STATE THEATRE The miracle of modern-day police science as opposed to old-time “strong-arm” methods provides a major conflict in the action drama, “Inside Information.” Dick Foran is cast as a policeman who volunteers to track down a mob of jewel robbers, and is forced to put his knowledge of scientific detection against the opposition pf a grizzled war-dog of the force. Harry Carey plays the latter part, and June Lang has the romantic lead opposite Mr Foran. In “Big Town Czar,” a typical story of a racketeer, Phil Daley (Barton Mac Lane), who rises from the New York tenements to become a big gangster and ends up in the gutters from which he came, is narrated by Ed. Sullivan, columnist and observer of New York life. THEATRE ROYAL The popular ventriloquist’s automaton Charlie McCarthy is seen as a crime-solving sleuth in “Charlie McCarthy, Detective.” Charlie unravels the mystery surrounding a baffling society murder when he, with Edgar Bergen, Mortimer Snerd and the balance of the cast are drawn into the affair. In the principal supporting roles are Robert Cummings and Constance Moore, and John Sutton. “Outside the Three-mile Limit” is a spectacular and exciting drama of the Secret Service’s untiring pursuit of counterfeiters. Jack Holt is starred as a daring G-Man. “London’s Reply to German Claims,” showing a tour of the bombed areas, and a chapter of the exciting serial “Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe,” will also be screened.