ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

Tudor Theatre. —Richard Llewellyn wrote “How Green Was My Valley.” a story of the industrial rise and fall of the Welsh valleys. John Forde coil structed a compelling and thoughtful Him out of the lives of one family, and the east has created the unforgettable characters who people this broad canvas.

Opera House.—lf the world’s fllingoers had the opportunity to take a gigantic vote on the stars most, suited to play the brothers in “Beau Geste” they would very probably have plumped for the same trio that Paramount chose for the P. C. Wren classic—Gary Cooper, Kay Milland ami Robert Preston.

King’s Theatre.—There is a great deal ot hootin’ and tootin’ done by Carole Lombard in her last, and possibly her best film "To Be Or Not to Be.” She is an actress in pre-Nazi Warsaw. Her name is second on the programme. Her husband s appears at the top, not because be is the greater star, but because be is so temperamental that he might conceivably bite, the fat lady in the stalls if he is not given ills own way. Jaek Benny is the busband.

St. James Theatre.—Abbott and Costello, stars of “Ride 'Em. Cowboy,” are the two great screen finds of the war. The film is as subtle as a crack on the jaw, and yet it keeps yourliful privates in the stalls and staid colonels in the circle laughing their heads off. There are .others in the picture, too. and a scene to remember Ella Fitzgerald’s singing of “A-Tisket, A-Taeket.”

Plaru Theatre.—"No .Gerater sin” Is a genuine and most convincing attempt to break down rhe barriers that prevent open discussion or any public mention of. venereal disease—a social menace that is fast' causing right-thinking people in New Zealand to raise their eyebrows and begin to ask why fuller facts have not liven brought out into tlie open long ere tills.

Majestic Theatre, —The season ends today of “Tarzan's Secret Treasure.’ I ollowit will lie the musical comedy written round the sanm theme tis Bernard Shaw b famous “Arms and the Man.” It is Obvar Straubs’ “The Chocolate Soldier. Ihe familiar tunes an? sunn by Neksnii Eddy, who in this film has a new leading lady. Rise Stevens, from tho New York Metropolitan Opera.

State Theatre. -Dealing with Uh- -urtlier misadventures of the eccentric family. “The Mexican Spitfire at Sen. brings once inure Dupe Velez anil Leon Errol .-us the volatile Uaruielitu and Lnele Matt- respectively. Charles “liiiddy’ Rogers Zasu Pitts, -Elisabeth Kisdon. Marlon Martin, Florence Bates and Lydia B 11iirook enact, the other principal roles I lie second feature is "Come Ou. Cowboy SUBURBAN THEATRES Kinenia (Kilbirnie)-"Here y? u "7.. Jordan,” Robert Montgomery, U.itiUe Kains”: "Frisco Lil." tVene Hervey. Kent King George (Lower HlltU. -" 1 lie I'ree of Liberty," Cary Grant, Martha s- ott, Alan Marshall. Sir Cedric IDG'd'Vieke De Luxe (Lower Hutt). 111 Wait I r you." Robert Stirling, Marsna Hunt. "Robbers of the Range,' Um H>>lL Capitol (Miramar).-' LU Go Men, u) Francis. Jack Oakie; "Th" Chump. Hugh Herbert. Vogue (Brooklyn i.—" Sanders <>) UK. River" Paul Robeson, Nina MacK'imey; "St. Martin’s Lane." Charles Laughton, Empire ” Island Bay). -"Paris t'aUiug, Elizabeth Bergner, Randolph seotl, "Washington Melodrama." Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford. Begat iKarorii. —"ll|th Parallel, l.aur. eiiee Olivier. Leslie Howard: America at Tivoli *Tlmriidoii i. “Lady llamiaon, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier. I'aradise for Two.” .lack Hulbert. Patrie!;, I'.Lis. „ Xseot i Newtown). "Waierhm I'ridge Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor: "DIV he Record " Joan Blomlell Pat I I'Brien. Prince Edward (Woburn Forced Landing;" Richard Arlen. Eva Labor; "Tlie Singing Outlaw.” Bob Bak"' loan Barclay.