The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 306, 16 May 1941, Page 8

The Theatres

REGENT Screening Saturday and Monday, '"Hudson's Bay" Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Nigel Bruce, John Sutton, Virginia Field, Vincent Price. ATlventure ! Romance ! Action ! Drama! Paul Muni,, twicc Academy AAvard winner, as Pierre Radisson, the role ymi've always, wanted him to play . . .in this tremendous spectacle . . . Renegade !.■■.. He never broke a promise—even though it meant standing his best l'riend in front of a firing squad! . . . Roguv; . . . But he reunited, .two lovers torn apart by the Avliim of a kind ! . . 4 Traitor! . . . But bei saved n new world for the ruler who ordered him hanged! GRAND Screening Saturday, Monday and Tuesday* "Hell's Cargo" Walter Rilla, Robert Newton. The most exeating drama of the sea ever imagined—Trafalgar, Zeebruggc, Jutland Scapa Flow,, Kiel Canal, Skagerrak! And now this! "Blondie Has Servant Trouble." The Bmnstead Family—Blondie, Dogwood, Baby and A riot of coined}* entertainment ! Another delightfully entertaining film is the Bumstead Family scries.

Slightly Cynical. Members of a reserve unit training in Gisbornc are accumulating Anecdotes of a varied nature. One concerns a lecture, how the unit coul'd be of any use against an enemy raider, and suggested that with a couple of lGin. sheels a warship could wipe out the whole population of Gisborne, '""That's stretching it a bit." replied the officer "Two big shells could do a bit of damage, but ihey could not hurt more than a smal'l proportion of the population." "Oh,- couldn't' they'?" remarked the trainee. "The first shell would make -a big hole in Gladstone Road. Then everyone in Gisbcrne would hop in his car and down to look at it. The second shell would wipes out the blooming ;ot."