ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 138, 11 May 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “THE WOMEN.” Tho one-hundred-per-cent feminine cast of "Tho Women,” starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawfod and Rosalind Russell, is no joke. The film, opening at the Regent Theatre to-morrow, not only boasts of a human cast of 135 females, but a feminine animal cast as well. All saddle horses, dogs' and cats appearing before tiie camera bad to bo of the "gentler” sex, and some 25 blue-bloods of this variety were required. Every animal in tho picture is of tho ( feniini»c tex. These includes three monkeys, Stupid, Dizzy uud Feathorb ‘ain, which a-ppear in the fashion show dressed in costumes duplicating tlioso of the stars. Even photographs and art objects are all feminine. Books used in the library are’ all by women writers and no title is used which refers to a man. Based on tho Broadway hit play by Clare Booth, tho new picture’has Norma Shearer in her first sophisticated modern role since “Riptide,” Joan Crawford in her first “heavy”, role, and Rosalind Russell in a striking chaiacterisation as a vicious gossip. Georgo Cukor directed. STATE THEATRE. “PACK UP YOUR .TROUBLES.” With joyous Jane Withers the bravest little Ma’aniselle in ail France and those roisterpus Kitz Brothers in the army, you are promised a whole kit bag- of fun—and thrills too —in “Pack Up Your Troubles,” tile new 20th Century-Fox comedy, which screens to-day at the State Theatre. , Tho Ritzes are a trio of vaudeville actors who enlist and find their way to Franee oil a transport as nursemaids to a herd of army mules. Their licmosis is a hard-boiled Sergeant named “Angel Face,” who works overtime keeping them busy. Jane Is the gay Julie Ma’aniSelle who befriends .the Ritzes and adopts their baby mule, Margie: and she provides the picture with plenty of thrills when she finds a chance to save her long-lost lather. When “Angel Face” makes things too lough for the Ritzes, they take time out to write a letter to the General, telling him that lie’s running his army all wrong. The result provides the picture with what has been described a? one of the funniest; surprise endings ever screened. Jane offers two delightful new impersonations in “Pack Up Your Troubles”—George M. Colian, singing “I’m A Yankee Doodle Dandy,” and Eva Tanguay, singing “I Don’t Care!” Jane also sings a song entitled “Who’ll Buy My Flowers,” written by Sidney Clare and Jule Stync. Lynn Bari is seen as a lovely spy, Joseph Schildkraut plays Jane’s Dad, Stanley Fields is cast as “Angel Face,” and others prominently featured ill life cast are F'ritz Lciber and Lionel Uoycc. “Pack Up Your Troubles” was directed by 11. Bruce Humbcrstono from an original screen play by Lou Broslow and Owen Francis; Sol M. Wurlzul acted as executive producer.