ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 115, 13 April 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “MISSING EVIDENCE.” Tn New Universal’s “Missing Evidence,” which screens to-day at the Mayfair ' Theatre, the manner in which counterfeit sweepstakes ticket racketeers operate 1 affords the basis for a timely and thrilling action drama. Almost everyone lias .entertained tbo Utopian dream of winning a vast fortune. Looking at the pictures of the bewildered but unhappy face of a porter in San. Francisco, a painter in Chicago, cr a seamstress in New York who has suddenly acquired thousands of dollars on a winning sweepstakes ticket inspires the hope that some day others, 100, might hold a lucky coupon. As a result, it has been estimated by the United States Government that 20.000,000 dollars leave the country each year through the sale of sweepstakes coupons. “Missing Iflvi deuce” deals with an effort to smash a pation-wido syndicate engaged in this racket. Preston Foster portrays a G-Man. Irene. Ilervey is seen as a pretty cigar stand attendant who helps him after a tragedy makes her realise she has unwit-) fingly been an accomplice of the gang-j liters. | The bravery of mer, who give their lives j that others inav live is brought to the screen in Columbia’s “Coast Guard.” baked by Hollywood as one of the most thrilling and dramatic records ever to bo screened. The story of tho “Coast Guard,” the new film, screens at the Mayfair Theatre to-day, with Randolph Scut 1 ., Frances Doc, Ralph Bellamy and Walter Connolly featured. The picture reveals | the heroic, saga of the Coast Guard. The j activities of the Service are clearly shown; the cutters patrolling the iceberg lanes, ol! tbo North Atlantic or guarding seals from! the depredations of poachers; . aircralt wing over little-frequented shorelines and ; great ambulance ’planes take seriously in-. jured men from ships at sea. Storms, shipwrecks, disaster at sea, hurricanes—these are tho elements from which the stirring story of “Coast Guard ’ is taken. ( A runaway ’plane crashes in flames. in : “Invisible Terror,” the fourth thrilling i episode of “The Phantom Creeps,” Universal’s 12-chapter mystery serial playing to-day at the Mayfair Theatre with Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, .Dorothy Arnold and Regis Toomcy in the leading roles. REGENT THEATRE “DESTRY RIDES AGAIN.” As a laughing, singing, loving bar-room entertainer in a town of the Old \\ ost. Miss Dietrich plays opposite lanky James Stewart, one of the screen’s most male stars, who lias the role of the shy young ; deputy-sheriff in “Destry Rides Again, I which screens at the Regent to-day. I Miss Dietrich secs in the character a similarity to the one she portrayed in “The Blue Angel,” the film which first lifted her to stardom. “Ever since then 1 have wanted to do another such role but until now i.ve never Intd the opportunity.” Miss Dietrich says. “The lir.st day I began work in ‘Destry Rides Again,’ 1 knew I had the 1 story I'd been looking for. It was fun doling it. the exciting action and the singing.” Joe Pasternak, producer of “Destry Rides ' Again,” knew Miss Dietrich wanted to 1 play such a role, but the star herself had ! despaired of finding a suitable story and ' had gone lo Europe with plans to make two pictures in Paris. While there she received a trans-Atlantic call from Pas- ' temak, who described the story to her, and I won her enthusiastic approval. She took (lie next boat, back to New York, and 1 Hollywood. Incidentally, _ “Destry Rides ’ Again” is Miss Dietrich's first picture ' since she became an American citizen.