ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21415, 8 May 1941, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS

TQNQHT’S PROGRAMMES STATE THEATRE The popular Marx Brothers are at their best in “Room Service,” which i. 4 ' as funny as it is exciting. The story concerns a theatrical producer and his two slick assistants at a New York hotel. Their efforts to keep themselves and a cast of twenty-two actors from being dispossessed from the hotel until they can get a financial backer for their show are the basis for the uproarious tomfoolery which makes the film a “scream from beginning to end.” “The Jones Family in Hollywood” is an appealing mixture of sentiment and humour, with the Jones family proving as entertaining as ever. Their adventures in the film capital are very exciting, and hold the close interest of the audience. REGENT THEATRE “Busman’s Honeymoon” is a very entertaining mixture of comedy and mystery, with Robert Montgomery as Lord Peter Wimsey, debonair amateur detective, and Constance Cummings as his mystery fiction-writer wife. There is a thrilling film of a British raid on a Norwegian island, and the March of Time’s latest issue shows how the Royal Air Force is today the first line of defence in the Battle of Britain. “STRIKE UP THE BAND” In a comical travesty on old-time melodramas in “Strike Up the Band,” to be screened tomorrow, and supposedly produced by the youngsters, Judy Garland warbles such ancient ditties as “She’s More to Be Pitied Than Censured,” “The Curse of an Aching Heart,” “Father, Dear Father,” and “Heaven Will Protect a Working Girl.” ROXY THEATRE “Rhythm of the Saddle” is very thrilling and romantic. Gene Autry appears as a foreman for pretty Peggy Moran, and seeks to protect her interests when rival ranchers attempt to wrest a rodeo franchise away from her Silver Saddle Ranch. There are hand-to-hand action thrills, buckjumping exhibitions, furious rides, and several songs. “South to Karanga” is based on the exciting adventures of a small group of whites in ; the African interior. Charles Bickford portrays a courageous American consul whose courage and resourcefulness help to solve a mysterious murder and to quell a native uprising. “FLORIAN” “Florian,” “There’s Always a Woman,” and a March of Time will be screened tomorrow. CIVIC THEATRE “They Made Me a Criminal” is a thrilling and romantic story, with John Garfield as a left-handed (this is important) prize fighter who, the day after he has won the light-weight championship of the world, learns by big stories in the newspapers that he is supposed to have murdered a newspaper reporter and then been burned to death in an automobile Occident while fleeing fiom the city. He drops out of sight, and finds his way across the country. Eventually he gets a job on an isolated California date orchard, and the story work up to a very exciting climax. “KITTY FOYLE” “Kitty Foyle,” to be screened tomorrow, is a highly dramatic romance, for her work in which Ginger Rogers received the Academy Award for the best performance of the year. THEATRE ROYAL “Streets of' New York” tells the story of Jimmy Keenan, who believed that honesty is the best policy. Jimmy supports himself and a little crippled boy by running a news-stand, goes to night school to study law, and is known as “The Abe Lincoln of 10th j Avenue.” But Jimmy’s big brother is Public Enemy No. I—a New York racketeer whom the police cannot catch red-handed. The story of a playboy’s regeneration, “Wolf Call” is set against a magnificent background of the Canadian north-west. Mike Vance, young millionaire, is sent by his father to investigate conditions at the Vance radium mine, and a stirring drama develops. “RANCHO GRANDE” Popular Gene Autry has the lead in “Rancho Grande,” which will be screened tomorrow.