TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22762, 10 November 1945, Page 3

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES

REGENT THEATRE Daphne du Manner's " Frenchmen s Creek." which opened a season yesterdaybefore large and enthusiastic audiences, is one of the most colourful and elaboratelymounted films to be shown in Hamilton for many months. The story of a London beauty who ran away from boredom to the Cornish coast, where she met a French privateer captain, lacks nothing on the score of glamour and excitement. Joan Fontaine is a lovely heroine, while good support comes from the rest of the cast. An attractive supporting programme shows pictures of the Duke of Windsor's visit to England and his meeting with his mother. THE ROYAL For scenes in "The Man in Half Moon Street," showing Nils Asther as a brilliant scientist developing an elixir of eternal youth, Paramount constructed a duplicate of Dr Serge Voronoff's laboratory at the Station Physiologique i du College de France, where lie made an extended application of his monkey gland secretion theories which created | forms of discussion some years ago. : harles Starrett. as a renegade who j reforms, becomes sheriff and "wipes I >ut" the outlaw band to which he had , ormerly belonged, returns in Columbia’s iewest out-door action drama, "The ' Thundering West.” ROXY THEATRE As a cub newspaper-woman who is as naive as she is beautiful. Jean Rogers plays the biggest role of her screen career m M.G.M.'s comedy success, "Whistling in Brooklyn." The picture Red Skelton and other members of the cast include Ann Rutherford. "Rags" | Ragland and Sam Levene. Those two irrepressible comedians Olsen and Johnson make a welcome return in Universal's "See My Lawyer,” the film version of the famous stage musical. Noah Beery, jun., has the unenviable role of their legal adviser. CIVIC THEATRE Sol Lesser's "Three is a Family,” a United Artists release now showing at the Civic, tells the story of young parents who come home with their babies for the war’s duration, with the resultant turmoil and hilarious situations. Charlie Ruggles, veteran comedian of stage and screen, is cast as Arthur's father, with Fay Bainter playing his lovely, careerminded mother. In his first screen role away from the slightly bemused Dagwood, Arthur Lake plays Archie Whitaker, a nervous expectant father. i STATE THEATRE Gene Autry, whose fans have elevated him to the status of a national hero, lives L up to all lions in his current Republic film. "Stardust on the Sage.” This latest Autry musical western presents ■ Gene as chief buyer for a national packing concern who scents trouble when he • learns that his ranch-owning friends are investing all their spare money in a ; hydraulic mining venture instead of in cattle. "Nobody’s Darling” is an entertaining musical film with Mary Lee and Gladys George.