ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 281, 26 August 1942, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

Tudor Theatre. —Few of the essentials have been lost in transferring ‘ How Green Was LMy Valley” from paper to celluloid. There is still the fine old head of the family. A changing -world breaKs above his head in all its turbulence: lus family acquires new ideas of expression and "freedom: impersonal moneyed interests turn Welsh valleys into festering sores of black slag and sullen miners; strikes and death complete the picture.

Opera House. —There is little point in recounting the story of “Beau (leste. Gary ■Cooper as the oldest brother is thoroughly at home in a part that calls for real acting. Ray iMilland shows that he is capable of more than drawing-room comedy. There is a sureness of direction and a finish about “Beau Geste” that lifts it into the realms of pictures that one remembers.

King’s Theatre. —“To Be or Not to Be’’ presents Carole Lombard as an actress jn pre-Nazi Warsaw. Her name is second on the programme. Her husband s appears at the top. not because he is the greater star, but beeause-hc is so temperamental that lie might conceivably bite the fat lady in the stalls if he is not glveir his own way. Jack Benny is the husband.

Majestic Theater.—‘‘Tarzan’s Secret Treasure’’ will finish its season at tue end of this wek. Following it will bo the musical comedy -written round the same theme as Bernard iShaw’s famous ‘ A^m s and the Man.” It is Oscar Strauss’ The Chocolate iSoldier." The familiar tunes are sung ‘by Nelson Eddy, who in this film has a new leading lady, Rise Stevens, from the New York Metropolitan Opera.

State Theatre. —“The Blonde From Singapore’’ and “Go West, Young Lady,’ end a season today. Healing with the further misadventures of the eccentric Lindsey family, “The Mexican -Spitfire at Sea,” opens tomorrow and 'brings once more Lupe Velez and Leon Errol as the volatile Carmelita and Uncle Matt respectively. Charles “Buddy” Rogers, ZaSu Pitts, Elisabeth Risdon, Marion Martin, Florence Bates and Lydia Bilbrook enact the other principal roles. The second feature will be “Come On, Cowboy.”

Plaza Theatre.—“No Greater Sin ’ stars Leon Ames, Luana Walters, and Adele Pearce. This is a most timely film considering the publicity which is being given to the prevalence of venereal disease in the country today. The Minister of Health, Mr. Nordineyer, the Director-General of Medical Services, Brigadier Bowerbank, and Sir W. B. Benham, of Otago University, have commented favourably on the film.

St. James Theatre.---The latest Bud Ai )_ bott and Lou Costello comedy is “Ride Em, Cowboy.” Abbott and Costello have a .sufficient following to ensure the Him a good deal of popularity, and in addition the cast includes the popular fiwingsters, the Merry Macs and Ella Fitzgerald, ftongs include “I’ll Remember April,” “Give Me My Saddle,” “Wake Up, ilacob,” and the old “A Tisket, a Tasket,” thoroughly rejuvenated *b.v Ella Fitzgerald. SUBURBAN THEATRES Kinemn, (Kilbirnie).—“Here Comes Mr. Jordan,” Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains"; "Frisco Lil," Irene Hervey, Kent Taylor. King George (Lower Jluttl. —‘The Cree of Liberty," Cary Grant, .Martha Scott, Alan Marshall, Sir Cedric Ilardwleke. De .T.iixe (Lower Hutt).—“l’ll Wait For Tou.’' Robert Stirling, Marsha Hunt; "Robbers of the Range,” Tim Holt. • I’rince Kdwurd (Woburn).— "Laugh It Oft,” Tommy Trinder; "Man From Montreal,” Richard Arlen, Andy Devine. Capitol (.Miramar). —“Littlo Men," Kay Francis, Jack Oakie; "The Chump," Hugh Herbert.

Vogue (Brooklyn).—“Sanders of the River.” Paul Robeson, Nina MacKenney; ".St. Martin’s Lane,” Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh. Umpire (Island Bay).—"Paris Calling,” Klizahcth Bergncr, Randolph Scott; “Washington Melodrama." Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford. Regal (Karori). —"liitlt Parallel,” “Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard; “America at War.”

Tivoli (Thorndon). —"Lady Hamilton,” Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier; "Paradise for Two,” Jack Hulbert, Patricia KIHS. •