AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE “MEN ARE SUCH FOOLS” AND “lIiANCE, CHARLIE DANCE” Based on a national magazine serial by the keenly Observant Faith Baldwin and made into a screen play, “Men Are Such Fools” deals with the problem of whether a wife should continue to work outside the home after her marriage. In real life, especially when the wife is a woman who is making a success of a business career when she is married, the problem is not an easy one for the couple involved, and neither is it an easy one for the young lovers played by Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane. While the picture does not slight the trials and tribulations of Linda and Jimmy, it is not merely a problem story. These young people live in a lively and amusing world, and the action' is swiftly-paced, building up to an uprbarious and clever climax, with a series of lively incidents. The associate feature, “Dance, Charlie, Dance," adapted from a George S. Kaufman play, is a new type of comedv-drama with musical interludes. Stuart Erwin. Jean Muir, Alien Jenkins, Glenda Farrell, and a specially chosen beauty chorus constitute the impressive cast. Several dance numbers elaborately staged by Eddie Larkin are interestingly shown in rehearsal and as finished performances. The story of “Dance, Charlie, Dance" is based on the experiences of a.small town 'innocent, played by Stuart Erwin, who goes to New York to make a fortune. By accident, he becomes owner of a Broadway “hit,” but not until he has passed through a storm of hilarious complications. An added attraction is the third chapter of “Secret of Treasure Island.”

KING’S THEATRE

“ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET.” Hal Roach's new romantic comedy, “Elephants Never: Forget," is now showing at the King's Theatre with a star-studded cast which includes Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, June Lang, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, James Ellison and Harry Langdon. The picture, based on the hilarious short story, "Zenobia’s Infidelity,” by H. C. Bunner, was filmed from the screen play by Corey Ford and was directed by Gordon Douglas. The story of “Elephants Never Forget” unfolds in Cartcrville, Mississippi, in the year 1870. Oliver Hardy plays the role of Dr. Tibbill, a genial, easy-going medico, who has two great loves in his life —his daughter and the Declaration of Independence. His life, however, becomes deeply involved with intrigue and publicity, when the town's society arbiters learn that the doctor has treated an elephant, Zenobia, who is ballyhooing a medicine show. It is a positive scream. There is an excellent first half of featurettes. —"Wife, Husband and Friend"— The box plans are open for the sparkling comedy success, "Wife, Husband and Friend,” starring "Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, and Binnie Barnes, which opens at the King's Theatre next Friday. There will be a fine supporting programme.

REGENT THEATRE I LAST DAY: “UNION PACIFIC" Cecil B. De Mille, master of screen epics, marks the occasion of the sixtyfifth production of his. career with “Union Pacific.” an inspiring story of the thousands cf men and women who made possible the building of the railroad of the same name—the first to span 'the American continent. With Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea in. starring roles, the Paramount picture, which concludes a most successful season t al the Regent Theatre tonight, depicts the magnificent struggle cf Hie railroad-builders against corruption, hostile nature and frontier perils and! shows two young people whose love was enough to surmount them alii. Prominent in the large supporting cast are Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, Robert Preston and Brian Don-Levy, cast as the “heavy." —To-morrow: Mickey Rooney And The Whole Hardy Family in “Out W'cst With The Hardys’’— Mickey Rooney, who enjoys a unique position among Hollywood’s juvenile players as- the result of his phenomenal success ini the "Hardy Family" ' scries, makes his fifth triumphant appearance as- the incorrigible Andy Hardy in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s hilarious comedy, “Out West With 4he Hardys," which commences a four-day screening at tlie Regent Theatre to-morrow. Overseas critics consider that the performances of every member of the family in this film surpass any of its predecessors —difficult though this may seem. Mickey Rooney gives a sincere interpretation of the bov, and introduces a new touch of pathos omitted from others, of Hie scries. Judge Hardy, as portrayed by Lewis Stone, shoulders new burdens with ‘lie aid of Fay Holden, as Mrs. Hardy. Others in the cast are Ann Rutherford as Andy's “steady” -girl friend, Polly Benedict, Sara Hayden as Aunt Millv, Don Castle as the boy friend of -Mariam (Cecilia Parker), Hie judge’s daughter, and Anthony Allan. There is not a single dull moment in “Out West With .the Hardys,” from the time when Andv has his weekly quarrel wjth his best girl Polly, until the judge, tirc-c and weary, packs his little group back to their home-town of Carvel af.er a -hectic vacation on a West-nn ranch New comedy lias been, added with the casting of 11-ycar-fid Virginia Woidler in tiie role of Jake, chief heckler of the irrepressible Andy. No -matter what, he may do in the way of emulating cowboys’ feats, Jake always goes one better, until at last the disconlate “Daredevil Andv. the terror of the range," as he calls bim-setf. is forced to admit that his diminutive competitor can outride. out-rope and- out-shoot him. Although Rile family is visiting the ranch, ostensibly for a vacation, the judge’s real reason for the visit is an invitation from a former sweetheart of his. She has read that Judge I-lardy is an exocrt on problems concerning water rights, and she invites him to bring bis family for a holiday on the ranch, and at the same time assist her in « battle she is waging for the right to water cattle at a nearby river. Although the judge settles various other disputes, and as usual, is called upon to disentangle the complicated- affairs of his family, he is unable to settle the water rights dispute until his wife comes to his aid in an unexpected fashion. The associate programme will include one of the popular "Passing Parade” series, a colour symphony, and a coloured Pete Smith Specialty, entitled “Marine Circus.”