ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 130, 2 May 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. "THE ROSE - OF TRALEE.” A breath of Irish sentiment and the heat of Irish hearts is the 'key unto of this entertaining story. Paddy, a singer, makes good on,the American radio while his wife, Mary, is struggling to keep their Inur-yoar-ohl da.ug.htcr in London. 'Throwing up everything in America to come to England and find his wife, with whom lie has apparently lost touch, he is followed by an American girl who loves him and who. learning he has a child, puts him wiso to the fact that his agent has been deliberately hiding from him informal ion of his family’s whereabouts. Danny Malone, tho world famous tcnOr, sings a number of Irish songs which no one is over tired of hearing. Among these arc "Mountains o’ Mourne,” "Down on Eirmigan’s Farm,” “Come Back to Erin,” "Believe Mo if all Those Endearing Young Charms,” “Did Your Mother Como .from Ireland,” "Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow Wow,” “Rose of Tralee.”

Current conditions in the Far East sot tho atmosphere for tho’,Twentieth CenturyFox'set where the filming of “'Thank You, Mr Mofo,” second in the thrilling series starring Peter Lorre ami currently at the Rosy Theatre, was recently completed. Tho’ setting for Hie newest screen adaptation of J. P. Marquand’s Saturday Evening Post stories is Peiping, , China, and vivid excitement prevails throughout tho entire action.

STATE THEATRE. "THE GIRL FROM MEXICO.” Romance,-comedy and side-splitting mixups arc woven together into a delightful film offering in “The Girl From Mexico,” a new Lupo Velez mirth-quake, showing to-day at the State Theatre. When a New' York advertising executive imports a Mexican singer tor a big radio programme, the fiery Latin damsel persuades her susceptible uncle to take her around and show her tho sights. As a result, tho girl yells herself hoarse at a ball game and fails miserably at her audition for the programme. Undaunted, she argues herself in to 1 a job at a Spanish night club, and also sets about breaking up Ibe young advertising man’s engagement to a selfish society girl. Flow she accomplishes this, and involves till the principals in a hilarious tangle, makes for the high-speed climax to the film. Miss Velez, famous for her vivacity and hor temperament, is an ideal choice for tho role of tho impulsive Carmelite, and her performance is one of the best efforts to date. Donald Woods is excellent as the harassed young man, and Loon Errol, as the easy-going uncle, turns in another splendid comic portrayal. Telling an exciting talo of modern 'Arizona and its cattle troubles, George O’Brien’s latest picture, “Racketeers of tho Range,” shows to-day at tho Stale 'Theatre. 'The story doals with a resourceful cattleman's single-handed battle against a big packing corporation that threatens lo monopolise the packing field arid bring ruin to himself and his follow ranchers. 'The big corporation has convinced tiio girl owner of the local packing plant that she should sell out, and when the cattleman finds his arguments useless, he has tho smaller outfit thrown into bankruptcy and gels himself appointed receiver. He hopes to manoeuvre the company out of its financial troubles before the receivership ends, but finds unexpected opposition from his cattlemen associates, as well as from the corporation men.