The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 27, 21 June 1939, Page 3

The Theatres

I'LGINT Regent Wednesday and Thursday at 7.30 p.m. with a matinee Wednesday at 1.30 p.m. ''St Louis Blues ' Dorothy Lamour, Lloyd Nolan, Tito Guizar, Jerom Cowan Jessie Ralph, William Frawler, The King's Men, the Hall Johnson Choir and Matty Malneck and his orchestra. Here comes another "Show Boat' show. ' A glorious Show Boat full of music and romance leased upon the most ■ popular of all blues songs, "St Louis ■ Blues." Thrill to Doro'thy Lamour as - the glamorous queen of the Misi sissippi. . . Thrill to the happiest - cargo of melody and mirth that e\cr - rolled up the Mississippi. . . «'St 1 Louis Blues'"' recounts the tale of a - gorgeous entertainer who rebels f against her manager's insistence that - she /always pose as a Soiitli Seas >ia. f tive and finds sanctuary—and love { on a picturesque showboat. The new t hit songs featured in the picture ins elude: 'I Go For That.' 'Itind'a Lone. 2 some/ 'Blue Nightfall and 'Let's j 2 Dream in the Moonlight.' s Plans are now open for 'The Adventures of Robin Hood" at Armt strongs and a word to the Aviso: book early and avoid disappointment. ;e . GRAND a y Grand Wednesday & Thursday 'Hold d That Co.cd." A sparkling musi. cal comedy packed with players pick. lt ed for laughs. . . Half satire, half d farce, and all fun, the picture is i*-- - d markablc for the brightness of the 10 strong cast of players, and the gends cral sparkle of the whole production. There are football games, barrackcrs, college yells, girl students who are inmost too pretty to be true < and all the other customary factors that go to make up the ordinary film, but there is something more —there is a ?r sly and good natured poking of fun !X. at all these aJipects. with John Barn a- more giving a brill'arit performance ias in a comedy rol'. George Murphv .is- and Marjorie Weaver in the romantic ill leads both give first rate cxhibi. m. tions. Five new song hits highlighl ler the film. These are 'All America* id. Swing,' 'Hold That Co-ed.* 'Here An n .-r 1 Doing It ' 'Heads High' and 'Limp: as Dimp.' ing Also owing to the great amount o ro- comment it has caused in Whakatan >m_ the "March of Tim" < ' featuring Th ID . Refugees h:>s beer hf.l-'l over and wi] be ' screening with the above gramme at the Grand.