ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 131, 3 May 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “MAN FROM MUSIC MOUNTAIN.” Carol Hughes, beautiful heroine of the Gone Autry picture, “Man .From Music Mountain,”’ which screens to-day at the .Mayfair Theatre, is one of Hollywood’s best sharpshooters. Miss Hughes was riilo champion of her ■-high school in Chicago a fow years ago, and has continued the sport since entering pictures. She has a range in tho background of her nomo. In “The Man From Music. Mountain”,, Coral plays the role of Helen, a young manicurist who opens a beauty parlour in an old “ghost” mining town that has been revived through fake mining stock. There are many complications before she and Gene Autry finally get together, but all ends well in a thrilling climax. , , ' . - Homely incidents, rather than an organised development of plot, make the Columbia picture, “Blondio Brings Up Baby,” which is now showing,at the Mayfair Theatro, a gay and charming iihn. Tho leading characters of Biondie and Dagwood- have been admirably sustained. ,At°first glance Penny Singleton presents Blondio as an empty-headed, over-decor-ated, blundering girl. But by degrees the personality establishes a quaint attractiveness.. Arthur Lake’s portrait, develops along similar-lines. Tho pair represent the parents of a tiny boy called “Baby Dumpling.” They hardly look more than children themselves, and thou- attitude toward the three-year-old is full gaucheric and wonderment. The detai.s of thc>, characterisation will strike .nil answering call in tho mind of anyone who has had to do with children. The sensitive mother’s anxiety when the boy undcr- ‘ goes an intelligence test; her agitation when he tirst goes to kindergarten; hei failure at first to understand the. growing independence that contact with other childien brings—all this is true to life. “THE PHANTOM CREEPS.” Also screening is the seventh thrillpacked episode of “Tho Phantom Creeps, 12-chapter Universal serial spectacle with Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold and Regis Tooraey in the chief roles. REGENT THEATRE, “BEAU GESTE.” Co-starring ■ Gary Cooper, Ray Millancl and Robert Preston as the brothers “Geste,’,’ Paramount’s new, -adventurecrammed, -•excitement-filled production of “Beau Geste” will screen to-day at the Regent Theatre. Based on the great novel by'P. C. Wren, tho picture tells the roaring, lusty story of three gallant brothers who endure dangers and hardship in the French Foreign Legion because • their loyalty to each other will not permit the finger of suspicion to point to any one of them as guilty of tho theft of a valuable sapphire, stolen from their guardian. Brian Donlovy, Susan Hayward, J. Carrol Naish,': Donald O’Connor and James Stephenson are prominent iri tho supporting cast.. Many other well known players will be soen in important roles and thousands of extra-players-will be seen in tho thrilling sequences in which a wild desert tribe attacks a,. Foreign Legion outpost, Fort Zinderneuf. William A. Wellman, who brought -“Men With Wings” to the screen last season, produced and directed the picture. Robert Carson is the author of the screenplay. N