AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20133, 30 December 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE LAST DAY: “MAN ABOUT TOWN” AND “CAPTAIN CALAMITY” The highly entertaining double bill at the Majestic Theatre will conclude to-night at the 7.30 o’clock session. Rochester, the negro comedian, has proved to be a great hit in the comedy “Man About Town,” with Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour. Edward Arnold and f Binnie Barnes. “Captain Calamity,”! the associate .feature, is a rollicking story of the. South Seas produced entirely in colour. —Preview Session at 10.30 p.m. of Dick Powell in “Going Places” — At a session commencing at 10.30 o'clock to-night a gala preview will be presented of Warner Bros’ newest! comedy with music. "Going Places.”) Dick Powell, who has shown himself to be a first-class comedian in hisj recent pictures “Cowboy from Brook- 1 lyn,”..and “Hard to Get,.’’ rises.to new; heights of hilarity in “Going Places.” j Playing opposite Powell in this enter-) taining production, which is set against) a racetrack, is Anita Louise. The rest! of tire cast is made up mainly of! comedians, including such popular j players as Allen Jenkins, Walter Cat- 1 lett, Harold Huber and Thurston Hall The one serious character in the story: is played by Ronald Reagan. Most of) the musical entertainment of the film j is shared between Dick Powell and! two coloured artists, Louis Arm-: strong and Maxine Sullivan. The! last-mentioned was previously seen in ! Gisborne in “St. Louis Blues.” Four I new songs, were written .for this pic-! ture by Harry Warren and Johnny) Mercer. “Say it with a .Kiss” is a. romantic melody sung by Dick Powell: “Mutiny in the Nursery” is a "swing” ) novelty number, in which Armstrong) gives syncopated versions of nursery j rhymes, while Miss Sullivan and aj' negro jazz band and chorus supply) l the vocal refrains. The other hum-M bers are “Oh. What a Horse was j Charley,” and . “Jeeper Creepers.” j The second attraction, which will com-; ■ mence on Monday, is -“Nancy Drew, j | Reporter," starring-Bonita Granville, jj John Lite]. Frank Thomas and Mary j < Lee. Those who enjoyed the first of i< the series. “Nancy Drew, Detective.” . are iii for a similar entertainment , treat. A ward of the dead woman is ( hold for murder,\ but Nancy is con-

vinced she is innocent, and she gets her attorney, father to defend the accused girl. She also has an idea as to who is guilty, and she and her boy friend, again played by Frankie Thomas, trail two of their suspects to) a Chinese restaurant, where they learn j a lot by eavesdropping. They eventually capture the guilty persons. Aii j added attraction will be the fourth chapter of “The Lone Ranger” serial.