ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 156, 1 June 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “ANOTHER TIIIN MAN.” Shifting with a deft pace from baby parties to bizarre crime, from martial mirth to >murder thrills, and from palatial Long Island estates to the dives of New York, “Another Thin Man,” latest of the sparkling “Thin Man” scries, teams that favourite screen pair, William Rowell and Myrna Loy, once again as the shrewd and witty Detective Nick Charles and his charming- but somewhat daffy wife, Nora. Their gay banter, which enlivened “The Thin Man” and “After the Thin Man,” the other pictures in the series, gets away with a new high in this offering due to the introduction of a Thin Man, Jr., tho baby whoso arrival was predicted at the end of the preceding'picture. The laughs, centring around Nickic, Jr., a, played by eight-months-old William Poulscn, reach a hilarious climax with a babv party given in' his honour by underworld pals of Detective Charles. Tho story brings the Charles family and their quizzical wire-haired terrier, Asia, to New York for a vacation. No sooner have they arrived than the financial adviser of Nora Charles is slain on his Long Island estate and Nick is called in to investigate. In the typically shrewd fashion of tho “Thin Man” sleuth. Nick solves ,tlio murder, even though lie has to take time oft now and then to rescue Nora from a tough New York dive, attend the baby parry and upset plans for his own murder.

MAYFAIR T.HEATRE. “BLIND ALLEY.” Piercing the unholy mysteries of a killer’s gun-eruzed mind; Forcing a murderer to destroy himself —with horrors conjured from his blood-stained past —in one of the most sensational dramas of suspense-laden thrills the screen has ever dared to reavoal! Columbia’s “Blind Alley,” now showing at the Mayfair Theatre, with Chester Morris. Ralph Bellamy and Ann Dvorak heading the brilliant cast which tells a sensational story of a mobster who could not be destroyed by bullets—and a fearless doctor who look the gunman’s brain apart, piece by piece and before his very eyes, to blast his career of slaughter ! In a roistering, rough and tumble role, as the fighting, singing skipper of the Marigold, known in every port in the South Seas, George Houston, popular screen baritone and star of “Wallaby Jim of the Islands,” scores yet another hit in Action Pictures’ all (eclinicolour “Captain Calamity,” now showing at the Mayfair Theatre. Tho story has Captain Calamity wandering tho seas, seeking adventure and a fo-tunc. Unable to make ends meet lie starts a rumour that he has discovered treasure —and produces a golden dubloon as evidence —needless to say this Subterfuge leads to plenty of excitement, with Houston fighting his way through to win tho girl in tho story —Marion Nixon. A Phantom goes on the warpath and the hero is caught in a deadly explosion in “The Blast,” the eleventh gripping episode of “The Phantom Creeps,” 12-cliap-ter. Universal serial showing to-day at tho Mayfair Theatre.