CITY THEATRES

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23965, 4 June 1943, Page 2

CITY THEATRES

—♦ AVON “BETWEEN US GIRLS ” Recommended as one of this season’s most entertaining comedy innovations, “Between Us Girls” will begin a season to-day at the Avon. Diana Barrymore, who co-stars with Robert Cummings, gives a sharp performance. or several performances as she appears as Joan of Arc, Queen Victoria, Sadie Thompson, and as a precocious 12-year-old. Kay Francis, John Boles. Andy Devine, Walter Catlett. Ethel Griffles and Guinn Williams ajl have strong supporting roles in the novel story, which combines a double romance, triple comedy, and quadruple surprises.

MAYFAIR

“THE GOLD RUSH” In “The Gold Rush,” his brilliaht comedy of the Alaska gold rush, showing at the Mayfair Theatre, Charlie Chaplin seeks the sympathies of the audience in the role of a weakling prospector, a hard-luck sourdough in the Alaskan wilderness. Charlie Chaplin loves slapstick. In this film, the little man who is the stooge, not for any individual, but for the vagaries of fate itself, covers the whole field of comedy, from the most arrant slapstick to the most delicate satire. His burlesque and ridicule are directed against the traditional Chaplin enemy—the bully.

THE STATE

“THE MOON AND SIXPENCE” Stark realism, vivid drama, and exciting romance are blended in the new production of Somerset Maugham’s famous novel “The Moon and Sixpence,” which will begin a season at the State to-day. The cast of this film, which records the adventures and romances of a brooding genius, who differed from other men, includes George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley, Elena Verdugo, and Eric Blore. The unusual story centres round an unusual man. a wealthy banker, who abandoned his family and society to become an artist. Charles Strickland, played by George Sanders, is the hero of the film, and his travels and adventures resolve into a kaleidoscope of colour and movement and sharp contrasts.

CRYSTAL PALACE

“ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON” A gay, hilarious comedy-rdmance, laid against and contrasting with the setting of war-torn Euuope, is the basis of “Once Upon a Honeymoon,’’ which begins a season at the Crystal Palace Theatre to-day for the first time in New Zealand. This new film, starring Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant, is a great film hit. United for the first time upon the screen in this adventurepacked romantic drama, Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant are starred respectively in the roles of an American girl married to a Nazi terrorist and a daring news commentator who comes to her rescue. Supporting players, notably Albert Dekker as an American Secret Service agent, and Ferike Boras as a maid, give convincing pe»formances, and the whole film is

thoroughly entertaining.

LIBERTY

“SIERRA SUE” In "Sierra Sue,” a western film, to be shown at the Liberty Theatre this v eek, Gene Autry is at his best in the role of the young government weed control expert who has been brought to Sierra City to overcome the superstition and fear of the ranchers, faced with ruin by the inroads of the poisonous devil weed. Fay MeKehitie, the leading lady, gives - promise of becoming outstanding, and Smiley Burnette, Robert HbniaftS, Frank Thomas, Jack Kirk, and Kermit Maynard also give sterling performances. "The Man in the Trunk,” a humorous ghost story, will be the supporting film this week.

PLAZA

“DANGER IN THE PACIFIC” Announced as an intriguing mystery drama, based on a hostile conspiracy in the tropics, "Danger in the Pacific” will begin soon a season at the Plaza Theatre. Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Don Terry, and Louise Allbritton are headlined in the film which has for its locale the heat-ridden, savage jungle on an unexplored island in the Pacific. “Tuxedo Junction,” starring Weaver Bros, and Elviry, will also be shown at the Plaaz.

CENTURY

“THE FLEET’S IN” Many well-known stage and night club entertainers are prominently featured in the gay new Paramount comedy with music, “The Fleet’s In,” which will be shown at the Century Theatre, starring Dorothy Lamour, William Holden, and Eddie Bracken.