AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 230, 27 September 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

"REMEMBER THE NIGHT?" EMBASSY THEATRE. j Lee Leander Barbara Stanwyck. John Sargent Fred Mac Murray. Mrs. Sargent Beulah Bondi. I Aunt Emma Elizabeth Patterson. I Fran C i s x . O'Leary Willard Robertson. Willie .. .' sterling Holloway. Director: Mitchell Leisen (Paramount). When a district attorney's assistant, faced with the job of prosecuting a pretty girl, becomes tender hearted about the business and through a chain of circumstances is forced to act as gaoler-chaper-on, there are bound to be complications. Just how complicated events can become in such a situation is revealed in "Remember the Night?" the Paramount comedydrama that opened a season at the Embassy Theatre last night. In a way this is a "Christmassy" story, but it is shot full of surprises and embarrassing and hilarious situations. When the tender-heafted attorney's assistant falls in love with his "prisoner"—and even legal men are not exempt, from the weaknesses of humanity—he is faced with the struggle between duty and love, inasmuch as he still has to carry on with the prosecution. His endeavours to save the girl from the consequences of her own crime come to naught when she insists on pleading guilty and taking the penalty without flinching. What follows caters for all the emotions of humanity, and there are surprises in plenty. Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray make a great pair of leads, and Willard Robertson turns in an attorney hit at the opening that people will remember for years. When Sterling Holloway sings "Perfect Day" on Christmas Eve, even hardened picturegoers swallow hard. There is an excellent supporting programme, including a Grantland Rice sportlight, a comedy cartoon and a news reel, in addition to "Mildewed Melodramas," a Paramount "paragraphic." STATE THEATRE. Dad and Dave are seen at their best in "Dad Rudd, M.P.," now showing at the State TheaiVe, Symonds Street. The famous hayseed family, in this latest production, endeavour to crash into polite society, with results which can well he igagiiKwi,