KING’S THEATRE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20119, 13 December 1939, Page 3

KING’S THEATRE

THE RITZ BROS. IN “THREE MUSKETEERS”: MUSICAL COMEDY Alexandre Dumas in his wildest dreams could not have imagined his “Three Musketeers” appearing in one of the funniest comedies of a screen year, but this has come about in the musical comedy version of the book, now showing at the King’s Theatre. The three Ritz brothers are the culprits, playing the parts of three lackeys who pose as the three famous Frenchmen. D’Artagnan in this film is played by handsome Don Amecho, ancl others in the cast are Binnic Barnes, Gloria Stuart, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine, Lionel Atwill and Pauline Moore. The story opens with the appearance of the three bbna-fide musketeers at the Ritz brothers’ tavern. They toast all the French monarchs from Louis I to Louis XIII —and finish under the table. The Ritzes don their costumes. D’Artagnan comes into the picture. He has challenged the trio to a duel, but then the guards arrive, and the fight is on. Thereafter, with the threat of lbsing their heads ever present, the Ritzes have all the adventures Dumas ever thought of—-and a great many more into the bargain. —“Hound of the Baskervillcs”: Mystery Thriller Friday— Sherlock Holmes lives again. One ot Arthur Conan Doyle’s . most sensational stories of the famous detective was “The Hbund of the Baskervilles,” aiid in its latest screen form it will have its yiitial local screenings on Friday"’at the King’s Theatre. It is stated that this is .a faithful piCturisation of the film and that Basil Rathbone portrays the great Holmes in convincing manner. In an outstanding supporting cast is Richard Greene, as the handsome Sir Henry Baskerville. Wendy Barrie, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill. John Carradine, Ralph ■Forbes and E. E. Clive. The weiirernembered story -is about a hound, rumoured to be something of a phantom, which roams the moor in savage hostility to the successive masters of the House of Baskerville. “Mr. Rathbone’s enactment of the Hblmes’ part is a business-like job; he looks the part andJ.talks it," was the tribute paid the ieading character by one Writer. Gene Markey is associate producer.