The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 30, 30 June 1939, Page 3

The Theatres

REGENT Final two screenings to_day of the one and only Gracie Fields,. Ee'ee by Goom but that givl is certainly good in this picture. After seeing ''We're Going To Be Rich" it i,s easy to under stand why Gracie is the highest paid artist in the world to_dav and thi.s is definitely a picture you must not miss. Commencing Saturday matinee 1.30 and night 7.30 p.m. is the one outstanding picture all Whakatane has been waiting to see. Direct from a rccord breaking season at the Civic Theatre, Auckland. "Pygmalion' George Bernard Shaw's comedy. Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilf re 1 Lawson, Marie Lohr. The reigning hit of every city in New Zealand, . . . Unrivalled . . . It stands alone . - • The world's censor passed this amazing comedy success without one 'cut Even the great Australian adjective is there . . . It comes to you while it is still piling up record after record . . . 8 wcel« in .Wellington, 7 weeks in Auckland, 7 weeks in Christ church and record smashing seasons everywhere it has been screened . • • From rags to riches ... A be-drag-gled flower girl who bloomed into regal loveliness ... an airy Cinder, ell a story sparkling with delicious comedy. A girl of the-gutter is given her chance to make good by an egoistical language master, but whilst he could build her speech and manners, he could not control her heart. . . ''Pvgmalion'' is o brilliant achievement by the Brit'sli film industry. This story of Eliza Doolittle and Professor Higgins is a gem of comedy. But Shaw is more than a jester, and in this picture is to be found his mocking scorn of the structure of society. wittily and vivaciously gilding n b'ting sermon on shallow conventions . grand Friday, Saturday and Monday with a matinee Saturday the Grand presents another of its pooil r \week_ end family programmes. Commencing with episode 10 of the popular serial Flaming Frontiers then wc have Gene Autrv one of the most popular idol-, of the screen to-day in "Oh Susannah." Gene's riding the range . . . singing his saddle songs . .. . ripp'ng into a murder mob . . . tearing through a d?ath trv» . . . ambushes in the dark . . . abandoned for dead Gene comes back to e'ear li mself of tbo outlaw band. Then we have <<Wh'le New Yo'k Michael Whale* 1 , Joan Roge's, Harold Huber, Joan Woodbury. Chic Ch-n'ler. A mvsterv so bewildering it has to b<? cclved twice by the roving reporter.-. Blood-tingling adventure. What kind of murder is this. The killer is caught before the crime. The story is Drill - ed before it happens . . • and the police are after these clue-and-cuti*-fdiasinst reporters before they know it for the same man h s been murdered again! They thought they had the ease in the ba£ . . . but found they'd stuck their heads in a noose! VESSELS TN POPT Some time wpr lo~t rain de. ' laved wovk'ng on Whaka. tnre waterfront two being in port. The Ton and the Vesper came in on Wednesday Av'th tfood cargoes. The Toa took awav mix~d produce and the Vesper mostly timber and empties.