ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 265, 7 August 1942, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

Audiences Will Like Genial Rogue At State Theatre It was once popularly Edgar Wallace maintained a , ••ghost.writers,” people to wl.oni he ta. plots ami who c!othed the <tn 1 ik_ ko words ami actions. B.v t“B’ .... his rumour sahl-he was able to keep up ins tremendous literary output. mind possible that some similar «>“ X^H: y S«k«&.The t out l . ll 'uie rC world’s cinemas alike, anyway. . . v „ nl „„t on u The latest to screen I",wliieh “Confessions of Boston Blackli , the bad man Is not too ba o ■ it 3>« enough ot a rogue to make .in l en c him. There is the usua mm s " a blackmailer to be dealt w t perhaps rightly, as a more nns, .oiiri ere ture than the murderer . sonic 1< to be done and a certain «'"• nt of 11 “If 0 ing-ont of nnseriipiMijUS gangsters Jno star is Chester .Morris, the J 1 and wood recruit to the m y» tcr , 5 ’ ’ Hilhe is lent noble support by Llt 1 a Hard, whose movie career began us a dancer Richard Lane and George L. Stone. The other film on the Slate s ()n is perhaps funnier and even faster. G 1 Farrell has made something !lf,‘ l n ?‘.V’ /icherself in the past with her ■To r <*> P> hires. She loses none of her lustre in “Torchv Gets Her Man, which, as its name implies, is all about Torch). * s”‘cessful efforts to break a crime ring, iw a particularly unpleasant n.‘-ik> land herself a rather more P ensa it .mile. Barton Mac-Lane is also in the ca. i.

Regent Theatre.—Now scrccninc a glamorous teelinieolour film, Lahn' ■ Passage,” starring Madeleine Larioi ai Stirling Hayden To see "Bahama 1 ass one would think that God had c - a - West Indies to the specifications of ■ Hollywood tcehnlculour eameran a , so well do the islands lit the colour mtnli n on the films. Also scroomng is W-Kl l ’ Cobbers,” an Australian film of Austin.ta s war effort.

Tudor Theatre.—"Joan of lans, a t .r ing story of adventure and love In inri under the Nazi heel, opens to r da -'/, ln Jl ‘ c ? ir “ Morgan and Paul Henreid are the st rs The "second feature is “Seattergood 1 ulls the Strings,” starring Guy Ivlbbee.

Opera Hou ß e.-"Thc Philadelphia Story ” an hilarious story of i\ Pr m I’fjjde >vlio turns overnight into a wild st r l al !’. ~ bathing beauty, opens today, Gian , Katharine Hepburn and. Janies Stewart at the trio of stars in this triangle of fast moving comedy.

Paramount Theatre.—Today will see the final screening of "Damaged Goods” and "Freckles Conies Home.” Tomorrow 11m Fleet’s In” will continue its successtul Wellington season at the Paramount, inut are no glorious naval traditions about lhe Fleet’s In”—no admirals (except as fiB ul P s r of fun), no boys standing on the burnt . decks, no sticking to the ship to the > a >• Instead there are lots of sailor , lots of girls lots of singing, and . enou o h n tsc cracks to stock Winchell for a fortnightWhich is just as it should be. Seryiecm n nn leave arc looking for fun; and that’s exactly What they’ll find. Dorothy I.amour is the girl who keeps the fleet in port, and is supported by Holden, Eddie Bracken. Betty Hutton, and Jimmj Dorsey nnil his • orchestra.

st James Theatre.“-Will Hay s picture' “The Black Sheep of M'hiteliall. will open its Wellington season todaj. In his his latest hit. Will H".v enacts the part of a spare-time detective in a farce of mistaken identity Also on the projtranwm is a "March of Time presenting ll>e Argentine Question.” ?

Plaza Theatre.—The tlhn version bj Richard Llewellyn’s . "How Green Wa=, Mv Valley, now in its fifth neea, ■telescopes the events of a many 1 years of Huw Morgan's life into a two-hour span. Donald Crisp plaja the part of tile father, Sara Allgood g its a performance as austere and diginbeu at> Crisp’s; but to little Roddy * 1 must go half the praise earned by the film.

Do Luxe Theatre.—“The Ghost of Frankenstein” opens with the dynamiting of the Frankenstein castle, an action which fails to destroy the monster and his mad friend, I'gor The monster, played by Lou Chaney, and Ygor, by Bela Lugosi, proceed to the village in which Dr. Irankenstein, second son of the nionster-creatoj, lives'ln anonymity aS far as ills kinship in his infamous father is concerned Frankenstein attempts to place a normal brain in the monster to convert him into a docile creature, but a treacherous assistant takes n hand In the surgery and the monster emerges more fearsome than ever before. The second big feature, an hilarious comedy, "Don't Get Personal,” stars Mlseliu Auer and Hugh Herbert. King’s Theatre.—Commencing today, is “Ladies in Retirement,” a film version of tlie Broadway hit, starring Ida Lupine, Louis Havward, Evelyn Keyes and Edith Barrett. It is a drama of four women and one. man in an unholy battle of strange desires in a house of dreadful secrets. .Majestic Theatre.—The adventures Of » socletv girl -who takes a chance and a love against which she has been warned are told in "Johnny Eager.’’ '1 be Impulsive heroine is played by Lana Turner, and her chosen by Robert Taylor. Metro-Goldwyn-Maver go so far as to term tlie film a dramatie blast and a romantic explosion. SUBURBAN THEATRES Prince Edward (Woburn). —"Mr. District Attorney in tlie Carter Case,’ James Bin,; son, Virginia Gilmore; "Mercy Istauii, Rav Middleton, Gloria Dickson. Tivoli (Tboriidun).- —“Turned Out Mee Again,” George Formby; "They Dare Nut Love,” George Brent, Martha Scott. Empire (Island Bay).—"YollTl Never Get Rich,” Fred Astaire, Hila Hayworth; "Reaching fur Hie Snij,” Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew. ... Kinema (Kilbirnie).—".My Wiles family,’ ’Charlie Claiiliam. John Marwick, "Target for Tonight.” , „ Capitol (.Miramar,.— “Pimpernel Smith, Leslie Howard ; .March of Time, M lien Air Raids Strike.” ; Vogue (Brooklyn).—"Lady Be . Eleanor Powell, Robert Young; Me no Fast,” Lynn Bari, Alan Curtis. Regal (Karon).— "Nothing But l*« Truth,” Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, "Hcllzapoppiu." .... , King George (Lower Hull).— Labes on Broadway," Mickey Rooney, Judy Garluuu, ".Main St. on the Marell.” De Luxe (Lower Hutt).—"Great Guns, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy; "Mutiny iu tlie Arctie,” Richard Arlen, Andy Deylue., Ascot (Newtown).—"-Will Parallel, Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier; ‘lhe -Man at Hie Gate,” M’llfrid Lawson, Mary Gerrod.