DYNAMIC DRAMA

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3268, 26 May 1943, Page 5

DYNAMIC DRAMA

“OUT OF THE FOG” - - ,1 PROGRAMME AT REGENT. “BIRTH OF THE BLUES” ALSO Dynamic drama is the basic ingretw ient of “Out of the Fog” which wiiJ show at the Regent Theatre Thurs*j day and Friday. Adapted from a long-1 run Broadway stage hit by Irwid Shaw, the new Warner Bros, picture stars Ida Lupino and John GarfieldJ whose teamwork as the fiery outcasts of “The Sea Wolf” won them praise from critics and public. Alsd featured are Thomas Mitchell, Eddia Albert, George Tobias and Aline Mac-| Mahon. I Miss Lupino portrays the daughter of a gentle old tailor (Thomas Mitl chell) who ekes out a bare living ill the tiny fog-bound community ol ■Sheepshead Bay. Passionately desirl ing : n re from life than a job as a switchboard operator and a boy friemj (Eddie Albeit) who * can offer he! nothing in the way of entertainment but a cheap fish dinner and a walll along, the boardwalk, she is delightea at the advent of a new man in het life. I This young man, played by Garl field, is’ a go-getter, and she sees il him her chance for a new life. Whal she does not know about him, howl ever, is that he is extorting monel from her father and his friend. Thl two old men have a little row-boat il which they go fishing in the bay anl Garfield has terrorised them into paw ing him five dollars a week for “prtfl tection” on their boat. Her fathel 'warns her against her new-found r<l mance and even offers »to use his veil meagre savings to send her away ol a cruise to Cuba. 1 She tells Garfield of her father! offer. The social parasite in him ■ immediately aroused. Promising ® take her to Cuba himself, he demaml from the two old men the money th® have saved. In desperation these tv® gentle old people decide to murd® him. They lure him into their bo® one night, their plans all careful® laid. At the last minute, howevc® they find themselves incapable of til deed. Garfield, suspecting their m® tive, suddenly draws his gun, hut fl doing so, stumbles and falls into tfl bay. In the ensuing brush with tfl law when the drowned body is foun® the two old men emerge triumphal® the girl learns that her steady pip® ding boy friend is her real love. H “Birth Of The Blues” ■ “Birth Of The Blues,” starring Bifl Crosby, Mary Martin, Rochestfl Brian Donlevy, Baby Caroline Lfl Jack Teagarden and his Band, a jofl ous comedy with songs, will also shfl at the Regent Theatre on Thursdfl and Friday. <fl Laughter to make you gay. .Rfl mance to make you, thrill. Music fl make you tingle. Paramount’s studded happy musical. They tofl the music right out of the heart, fl Dixie; the-shuffling dances of mot® lit New Orleans docks; the wailifl saxophones, singing trombones—afl they call it “Birth of the Blues.” 'HeH these numbers sung and played— Louis Blues,” “St. James Infirmafl Blues,” “Memphis Blue,” and such <■ favourites as “By The Light Of Silvery Moon,” “Wait Till the Shines, Nellie,” and, of course, of the Blues.” To hear Bing > siH “Melancholy Baby” as a lullaby sweet little Carolyn Lee, a kid if ever there was one, enough to see “Birth of the FINALLY TO-NIGHT ■ “ DR. BROADWAY ” ■ “ Dr. Broadway” will show to-night at the Regent Theatre;