ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 98, 20 January 1943, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

Tivoli Theatre. —"How Green Was My Valley,” which translated a popular novel of a Welsh miner’s family and their village into an even more popular film, is now at the Tivoli. Also screening is “Algiers,” with Charles Boyer.

I’lazii Theatre.—lt you can overcome a natural refusal to believe that a famous New York stage star would leap out of a taxi, pick a stray baby from the sidewalk and then proceed to shower embarrassing adoration upon it. you will see nothing improbable in the plot ot "The Lady Is Willing,” at the Plaza. Perhaps Hie producer did not intend to give the film any close relation to lite. It this was so. lie has succeeded admirably. Marlene pietrieh brings this bonny, chortling baby home and completely upsets her extravagant household.

Opera House.—" Sergeant York” is a great picture because it has boldly striven to give the world more than a series of scenes with words. It has looked down into a man's soul, and caught the first burgeonliigs ot conscience, the slow awakening to the meaning of individual freedom and thought. York is a good soldier, but lacking when he must reckon with his conscience. He sits alone on a hillside, the Bible in one hand, a history of the United States in the other. Does one bear relationship to tlie other? Sergeant York does not find tlie true answer till he reaches the torn fields ot Argonne in the autumn of 1918.

King’s Theatre.—Charlie Chaplin is baek ngain. The pathetic little figure, the symbol ot the masses who laugh a little and fight and die with wishes ungranted. tlie man who, in becoming the world’s, greatest comedian has become almost frightening in his interpretation ot our civilization—Charlie Chaplin in “Tlie Gold Rush, of wlileli lie himself said nearly IS years ago, "This is tlie picture that I want to be remembered by.”

Majestic Theatre.—What is that extra quality that makes “Mrs. .Miniver” a great and unique picture? That makes a film, a film that is not always realistic in its atmosphere, not even always accurate, nu inspiring and inescapably human document? is it the tiny trenchant details: the wordless understanding between husband and wife, (lie village tension over the rivalry of the flower show's competitors, my Lady’s annoyance at the impertinence of' the German bombers In dying over her house? Or is it the deeper significance, tile almost unbearably poignant moments; the footsteps of tlie “young aviator as he nears tlie house were liis girl-wife lies dead tlie camera’s sweep over empty pews in tlie bomb-blasted church, -Mrs. .Miniver's natural panic when discovers Hie German airman crouching in her garden, mighty little fleet ot pleasure craft, manned by the stout civilian heart of Britain, oil its way to Dunkirk?

Tudor Theatre.—ln “Weekend in Havana” Alice Faye is a shopgirl from Macy 6 who has saved up lor a pleasure cruise to Havana. The boat inconsiderately runs itself on a reef and the shipping company’s representative llieej down to refund the passengers’ money. But Alice is determined to have her holiday, and the representative finds her something of a handful. It will not surprise seasoned tilmgoers that the gentleman is personable John Payne.

De Luxe Theatre. —“Kid Glove Killer” and “Escape From Hong-Koug” will be screened today, and will be replaced tomorrow by a new programme. In the principal film Wallace Beery, again associated with Marjorie Main, returns to the screen in “Jackass Mail,” iu which he gets into his usual pack of trouble. The associate feature stars Ralph Byrd .and Virginia Hale in “Broadway Big Shot.” St. James Theatre. —“The Big Blockade,” with Michael Redgrave, Leslie Banks, and Will Hay, outers its last two days at the St. James today. It is a story of Britain’s ceaseless watch on the economic front against the Axis. On Friday the famous American comedian. Bob Hope, is starred with Madeleine Carroll in “My Favourite Blonde.” an uproarious comedy which gives him scope for his best talents. State Theatre.—Roddy McDowall. of “How Green is My Valles’” fame, returns in a film of the London iblitz, “On the Sunny Side.” It is a story of thrills, laughs and tears, in which Roddy plays lhe part of a London lad, bombed from his home, who goes to America for the duration. Associate stars are Jane Hrawell, Stanley Clement.-;. Katharine Alexander. Don Douglas. Freddie Mercer. Ann Todd, and Jill Esmond. T'he second attraction on the new programme will be “Down Rio Grande Way,” a six-gun story, with Starrett Hayden and Charles Russell. SUBURBAN THEATRES Umpire (Islam) Bay).—“Joo Smith. American.” Bnbert Young. Marsha Hunt; "A Night .it Earl Carroll's.” Rivoli (Newtown). —"'Dio 3!) Steps," Robert Donat. Madeleine Carroll; "Hollywood Cavalcade." Klnema (Killdrnicl"'Vlien Ladies Meet.” Robert Taylor. Greer Garson: "Tlie Trail of the Vigilantes." Franchot Tone. Kln B George (Lower llllltl. — “Call a Cop." George Fortuity. De. I.oxo (Lower Hut t "Two Laline From Manhattan.” Joan Davis. Jinx Fnlkenlierg: ".Man With Two Lives, ’’ Edward Morris. I’rinee Edward I Wobn Hi ”Tn rza n’s Secret Treasure." Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan; ’’Born Io Sing.” Virginia Weidlor. Bay McDonald. Ascot ( Newtown >. -"City For Conquest." .lames Cagney. Ann Sheridan: 'Honeymoon Deferred." Margaret Lindsay. Edmund Lowe. Regal (Karori i.--”Tlin Chocolate soldier.” Rise Stevens, Nelson Eddy. Capitol i Miramari. “This Gun For Hire." Veronica Lake. Alan Ladd: "Bandit Trail." Tim Holt. Itay Whitney. Vogue I Brookl.i nl.— ’’ The Letter. ’’ Belle Davis. Herbert Marshall: "Murder By Invitation.” Wallace Ford. Marian Marsh.