ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 4 June 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “ANOTHER THIN 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 ,Thiri Man,’’ latest of the sparkling “Thin Man” series, teams that favourite screen pair, William Powell and Myrna Loy, once again as the shrewd and witty Detective Nick Charles and his charming but somewhat dairy wife, Nora. Their gay banter, which enlivened “The Thin -Man” and “After the Thin Man,” the other pictures in'tho series, gets away with a new high in this offering due t.o the introduction of a Thin Man, Jr.,' the baby whose arrival was predicted at the end of the preceding picture. The laughs. centring around Nickie, Jr., a*j plaved by eight-months-old William Poufeen, reach a hilarious climax with a babv party, given in his honour by underworld pais of Deteclivc Charles. The story brings the Charles family and their quizzical wire-haired terrier, Asta. 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 the “Thin Man” sleuth. Nick solves tho murder, even though he has to take time oft now and then _ to rescue Nora from a tough New York dive, attend the baby party and upset plans for his own murder. KOSY THEATRE. “A FAMILY AFFAIR.” For twenty years, Judge Hardy (Lionel Barrymore) lias been revered by Carvel County, as a just judge. At home, one night, Mrs Hardy .and Aunt Milly prepare a feast to welcome Marion Hardy (Cecilia Parker) home from college. Young Andy (Mickey Rooney) the 14-year-old son of the house, is furious because directly after dinner be not only must attend a party, but has to escort a girl, too. And his sister, Joan, and her husband, Bill, will be there. And Bill is his particular hero. Judge Hardy has had one of the country’.s most noted civil engineers make an analysis of-the aqueduct project and learned that Carvel stood to lose its valuable' water supply, which would have been diverted to a nearby city, and the people of Carvel would have been ruined. Ilis restraining order will be permanent until another Act has-been passed by Congress that is fair to the community When the bedlam has died down Judge James K. Hardy is re-elected by popular acclaim A story with the 'flavour of to-days headlines is on the screen at the Kosy Theatre in “Song of the City,” written by Michael Fessier, crack newspaper man. The narrative dcajs with a reckless, likeable youth who loses his money in a stock deal. Determined that he will not marry for money he starts for San Francisco. Crossing the bay he is washed overboard. An Italian fisherman picks him up and takes him home