ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 142, 16 May 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “EVERYBODY’S DOING IT.” A high speed romance, unfolded in the heat of a nation-wide advertising contest that gets out of control, forms the theme of “Everybody’s Doing It,” RKO Radio’s new offering with Preston Foster and Sally Eilers in the starring roles. Based on the current rage for puzzle contests, the film reveals in lively fashion what happens when racketeers decide to profit . by various features of a contest originated to sell a breakfast food product. One of the crooks decides to’ kidnap the artist who draws the puzzles, and the other evolves his own racket of selling answers to the public, and their respective schemes : clash. Foster and Miss Eilers have the romantic leads as commercial artists in the breakfast food company’s advertising . Department, who perfect' the idea for the contest. The two favourites are excellently _ cast as a pugnacious pair of lovers. With many of the scenes filmed in a large advertising office, the inner workings of 'advertising campaigns and the painting of advertising posters is revealed for perhaps the first time on tho screen. Sup- • porting the stars is a notable group of players. i “Lily of Laguna,” starring Nora Swinburne, Richard Ainley, and John Payne’s Negro Choir, tolls a grand romantic story of Ireland, set io the lovely traditional musio of Eire MAYFAIR THEATRE. “FAST COMPANY.” Movie-goers who liko their adventure spiced with comedy, thrills and romance will be drawn to “Fast Company,” new romantic mystery, which is screening at the Mayfair Theatre. The plot concerns tho' efforts of an ultra-modern married couple, played by Melvyn Douglas and • Florence Rico, to break up the activities of an international stolen rare book gang. They combine married love and a business career by tracking down the suspects to a murder. When the couple are captured by racketeers it is their ability to joke and laugh with their captors that finally enables them to escape and reach the police. This laugh and thrill a minute picture also features such entertaining performers as Claire Dodd, Sheppard Strudwick, Louis Calhorn, Nat Pendleton and Douglas Dumbrille. Lew Ayres’ sensational return to the screen spotlight continues. With Lionel Barrymore, he is featured in “Young Dr Kildare,” which is now showing at the Mayfair Theatre. Lynne Carver has the feminine lead. Barrymore plays the grizzled diagnostician, Dr Gillespie, who is at once the nemesis and mentor of the amazing young Kildare. “Young Dr Kildare” is the story of a young medical student who sacrifices love and a place of comparative security beside his country doctor father to achieve something great ior humanity'. As an interne in the general hospital of a big city, His independent thinking gets him fired from the staff, but wins him the admiration of Gillespie, the groat diagnostician. Kildare returns homo to find that, through Gillespie, love and a career are not incompatible.