STUDIO CHATTER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 58, 3 April 1946, Page 6

STUDIO CHATTER

A FEATURE COLUMN With the return of the Beacon to the normal schedule of three issues per week, we are pleased to find ourselves in a position to now answer repeated requests for a featured column of studio news and views. By special arrangement, the 20th Century Fox monthly bulletins containing all the latest information on new pictures, actors and actresses, and production notes, straight from the Studios have been made available, and also “Warner News” airmailed direct to New Zealand from the Warner Brothers Studios. In addition, the space will contain brief notes and news concerning our own local theatres, and the pictures to be screened. It is understood that the Grand Theatre may be devoted partly to pictures of which patrons request a return. If so, more details will be published later. In the meantime, this space will, each week, be devoted entirely to screen topics, and is at the service of readers for information of any nature whatsoever, connected with showbusiness. Intimately woven with the screen, is music, particularly modern music—witness the hundreds of musicals produced which are dependant entirely on the featured names of top line orchestras. For this reason, musical enthusiasts (likewise swingfans) will be catered for, and any information we come by on this “score” will be faithfully passed on.

Many readers will recall the familiar screen figure of George Arliss, who as was reported in many newsapers throughout the world, passed away on February 5. An interesting link with this famous player a nd New Zealand was forged by his brother who commanded one of the British destroyers that evacuated hundreds of our fighting men from Crete in the hard days of 1941. Theatre Briefs

Regent: Tonight, tomorrow, and Friday—“ Thank Your Lucky Stars.” Hit tunes and a cast of stars make this film a top-liner. Bette Errol Flynn,. Eddie Cantor and lots of others make it a show worth seeing.

“Meet Me In St. Louis” (Saturday, Monday and Tuesday) had an excellent run in Auckland. Stars are Judy Garland and little Margaret O’Brien. (Remember her in “Lost Angel” and “Canterville Ghost”?) The Trolley Tune—well known hit parade favourite—is featured. Good light, musical entertainment.