The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 253, 23 December 1940, Page 4

The Theatres

*■ " REGENT Times of matinee and screenings for the coming week are listed in the front page advertisement. Films showing are:—-Today, "Dad Rudd, Mi.P" Tomorrow, "It All Came True," Ann Sheridan,. Humphrey Bogart, Jeffrey Lynn, Zazu Pitts, Una O'Connor. Powerful drama blended with comedy. A new dramatic sensation from the author of "The Rains Came" There will be no screening" 011 Wednesday Christmas Day. Thursday', and Friday Avill see presentations of 'tThe Boys from S\-rr.eu.se." Allan Jones Irene Hervey, Rose'mary Lane, Martha Rave, Eric Blore, Chas. Butterworth, Alan Mowbray, Joe Peiiner, Samual S. Hinds. A timely contribtion to the relaxation of the nation. You've never seen a picture like this It is NOT a college picture. It is NOT a gangster picture. It is Universale streamlined musical burlesque, adapted from the Broadway nit

Saturday and Monday, "The Private • Lives- of Elizabeth and Essez." Errol Flynn, Belle Davis, Olivia de Haviland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Vincent Prince, Stephenson. The ultimate in technicolour ! A magnificent Warner Bros.. product-• ion in all its colourful splendour. History, betAveen its pages of black and white, tells us of the. pomp and magnificence of those days, but now this greater-than-ever technicolour brings imagination to reality \ Here we see the georgeous colours of Elizabeth's Court in their actual richness and splendour !

GRAND - ■ ' - ; / Final screening today, "Invisible Stripes/':and v Hi(klen 0old." Tomorrow, "The Lone 1 Wolf Meets a Lady >T Warren Willian. \Vanted by the police—ami every woman he meets- —■ Warren William again plays the lig-ht-fingered,,, light-hearted rogue, "The Lone Woll','—alias Michael Lanyard. Also "Prairie Law"* George O'Brien, Virginia Vale. No scrceni nesdav. Showing on Thursday and Friday "If I Had My Way," Gloria Jean,' Bing Crosby, Charles Winninger. The "Miss" and "Hit" of Melodyland are coming to enchant you . . • Glorious Gloria, sensational skylark of "The 'Underpup/' and the screens prime minister of melodious moments in a happiness picture you will long remember. "Sherlock Holmes." Basil Rathbone, -Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino. The unsurpassed mystery-thril ler of all time . . • " ' Saturday and Monday sees "Stage Coach War," Hopalong Cassidy Series. William Boyd, "Lucky, "Speedy, "and The King's Men. A Paramount Picture of courage, hard riding, hard fighting—plus the most spectacular race between two stage coaches over dangerous mountain trails ever filmed. * Also "The Farmer's Daughter,'* Charles Ruggles, Martha Raye. This; is a real mirtliquake of fun, frolic and frivolity.