ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 139, 13 May 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

STATE THEATRE. • “PACK UP Y’OUR TROUBLES.” With joyous Jane Withers the bravest little Ma’amselle in ail France and those l-oisterous Ritz Brothers in the army, you are promised a whole kit bag of full —and thrills too —in “Pack Up Your Troubles,” the new 20th 'Century-Fox comedy, which screens to-day at the State Theatre. The Ritzes are a trio of, vaudeville actors who enlist and find their way to France on a transport as nursemaids to a herd of army mules. Their nemesis is a hard-boiled Sergeant named “Angel Face,” who works overtime keeping them busy. Jane is the gay little Ma’amsclle 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 father. When “Angel Face” makes things too tough for the Ritzes, the.', take time out to write a letter to the General, telling him that he’s running his army ail wrong. The result provides the picture with what has been described as one of the funniest surprise endings ever screened. Jane offers two delightful new impersonations in “Pack Up Your Troubles” —George M. " Cohan, 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 Julc Stync. Lynn Bari i's seen as a loveiy spy, Joseph Sehildkraut plays Jane’s Dad, Stanley Fields is cast as “Angel Face,” and others prominently featured in the cast are Fritz Lciber and -Lionel Rovce. “Pack Up Your Troubles” was directed by H. Bruce Humberstorie from an original screen play by Lou Brcslow- and Owen Francis. Sol M. . Wurtzel acted as executive producer. KOSY THEATRE. “SPAWN OF THE NORTH.” A dramatic slory of two men whose lifelong friendship is broken by an Arctic feud but who are finally reunited through a terrific sacrifice of one of them is told in “Spawn of flic North,” Paramount s epic tale of romance, war and heroism in frontier Alaska. George Ratt, playing a role similar to the one which won him honours in “Souls at Sea,” is the ne’er-do-well but captivating adventurer of the Northland, who flaunts every law of Alaska but gives up everything loi bis lifelong friend arid the girl lie loves, Henry Fonda, trcsli from his triumphs in “Jezebel” and “Blockade,” plays Raft’s devoted friend and reluctant- enemy, and Dorothy Lamoiir, in her biggest dramatic role to date, will be seen as the typical gallant women of the North country. “Imagine the hide of those coppers,” reasons Edward G. Robinson in Warner Bros, hilarious comedy,-“A Slight/ Case of Murder.” “Just because they find four dead guys in my apartment they want to ruin me socially. . .and me turning legitimate, too ! It’s a crime 1” In his new role, Edward G. is no menacing, gun-toting, sinister under world character this time. He’s a fellow who was a beer baron in dry days and now, since prohibition repeal, has been trying to get along as a legitimate brewer. But he’s a dry at heart; lie’s never lasted his own brew.