TUDOR THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 10

TUDOR THEATRE

“Dangerous Moonlight,” the tragic and touching romance which is at the Tudor, opens and closes with the battle of Britain. But it is not a war picture—no , anywav, in the sense that it is filled with the shatter of guns, the litter of bombs or bloody heroics. To gentle music the camera moves to Warsaw, where a band of voung flyers learn of the end of resistance, the subjection of their country. One escapes to America, where he picks up the thread of his peacetime career—compositions for the piano—and the thread ol a strange friendship begun in bombed Warsaw with a beautiful young newspaper correspondent.

State Theatre.— Still running to full houses in Wellington in a highly successful season, "To the Shores of Tripoli, now at the- State Theatre, has captured the public fancy and not to have seen it will mean being out of fashion as a theatregoer. Its attractiveness is enhanced by its teclinicolour, and It stars the beautiful Maureen O’Hara.

State Theatre (Petone).—Miekev Rooney is at tiie height of his talent in "The Courtship of Andy Hardy,” now showing at Hie State. Beton'e. lie is seen in n very happy role in this lovable and homely portrayal of everyday American life. Tim series of Andy Hardy films has won a warm and permanent place in tlie hearts ’of theatregoers, and they know that they can expect bright, clean and wholesome enler'alnmont. with plenty of laughs, from these excellent films, which need no superlatives to emphasize their real worth. This is Andy's latest and greatest.