AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20051, 25 September 1939, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

KING'S THEATRE “THE LITTLE PRINCESS.” Just as she is in real life, Shirley Temple, the only star ever to appear before the Technicolour cameras without any make-up whatsoever, is seen in “The Little Princess,” on the screen at the King’s Theatre. When, at the request of thousands of filmgoers from every country in the world, Darryl F. Zanuck decided to present Shirley Temple in the title role of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s popular story, he was faced with a very difficult problem in the matter of choosing actors for the supporting roles, tout who the little girl to play the .title role should be he was never in doubt. The handsome young actor. Richard Green, however, successfully takes the part of Geoffrey Hamilton, with lovely j Anita Louise as his sweetheart. Rose. Cesar Romero appears for the second time in a picture with Shirley. The programme is reported to be a most suitable one for this period of stress, finding favour with tooth children and adults alike. REGENT THEATRE MICKEY ROONEY IN “HUCKLEBERRY FINN.” Mark Twain himself would be thrilled to .see Mickey Rooney in the part of Huckleberry Finn, which lie tills as though born to it in the picture of that name at the Regent Theatre. All. the hair-raising adventures, all the simple honesty, all the inimitable humour of the book arc there in the screen version, Huck’s raft sailing down the flooded Mississippi; the 'race with the bloodhounds on the trail of runaway slaves, the derelict houseboat. All the adventures you have read of are there on the screen. Jim, the negro slave, played by Rex Ingram, and Huckleberry Finn are good friends and' are given plenty of opportunity to prove it as, for instance, when Huck gets bitten by a rattlesnake and Jim carries him back to save his life, knowing that it means his own capture to face a charge of murder. Mickey Rooney playing “Juliet" to Walter Connoilybs “Romeo” presents one of the .funniest scenes ever played in Hollywood, but what Shakespeare would think of it is another matter. “Huckleberry .Fyrtri” is a picture boys of every age will enjoy and so will their sisters, mothers, wives and sweethearts. The Gisborne season concludes j to-morrow evening. MAJESTIC THEATRE LAST DAY: “WOLF’S CLOTHING” AND “THE SINGING OUTLAW.” A highly entertaining and amusing double bill will be finally screened to-night. Gordon Harker and Claude Hulbert provide thrills and laughs galore in the secret service story, “Wolfs Clothing.” The associate feature is a rhusical Western, “The Singing Outlaw.” starring the new singing cowboy, Bob Baker. —To-morrow: “Little Tough Guys iii “Code of the Streets,” and “One Mile from Heaven.” — Telling the dramatic story of grimfaced boys who challenge society for a chance in life, Universal’s production of “Code of the Streets” . opens to-morrow at the Majestic Theatre. In addition to the rough and ready band of juvenile stars, the Little Tough Guys, the swiftly paced story features Harry Carey, Frankie Thomas, James McCallion, Leon Ames, Juanita Quigley and Dorothy Arnold. The screen play by Arthur T. I-lor-man and Gordon Kahn provides a graphic illustration of the effect that j big city slum environment can have upon Untrained youth. Harry Carey, who .graduated from two-gun films to character roles on the screen, is seen as the police officer who arrests a boy and then fights to save him from the electric chair. Frankie Thomas, playing a boy detective in the film, was last seen with the Little Tough Guys “In Society. ’ MeCallion is a youthful and talented Broadway stage star making his bid for screen fame. The associate feature. “One Mile from Heaven.” tells the human, exciting story of two mothers fighting desperately for the same child. Dramatically it presents the question of who has the greater right—the one who brought the little girl into the world, but thought her dead in a fateful car crash, and who, after several years, found her hopes renewed —or the one who nursed the child back to health, nurtured and guarded her, and came to love her as her own. In this entangling situation is a girl reporter, assigned to track down the biggest news scoop of the year, yet to do so would blast the lives of three innocent people. The climax leaevs one breathless. Claire Trevr is me reporter, with Sally Blane and Fredie Washington the mothO/s fighting for the same child. Douglas Fowley injects the villainy with his consistent portrayal of the' ex-convict extortionist.