ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 5 June 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR THEATRE. • “MAYTIME.” ■ “Maytime.” based ou the unforgettable Broadway plav by Rida Johnson Young, now showing at the Mayfair Theatre, is.ertlianced tenfold by the vaster resources of Hollywood and the artistry of Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer workmen, Jeanette MacDonald and- Nelson Eddy are the stars and John Barrymore appears in his first role since “Romeo and Juliet;” Lynne Carver. a screen newcomer, has (lie juvenile fefniifine romantic part with Tom Blown. Hollywood’s “Maytime” is a lavish thing, beautiful to see and lovely to hear. Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy add to- the iuurele they won in “Naughty Marietta” and “Rose Marie.” Their song together. “Will You Remember?” from-the stage play, is unidr gottablp. Miss. MacDonald a iso sings two complete operatic arias and parts of outer's. . Eddy sings three excellent novelty songs, “Students’ Drinking Song.” “Vivo L’Opera” and “Virginia Ilnm and Eggs.”. Together, they give a beautiful rendition of the folksong, “Carry Me Back to Old' Virginny.” ' 1. REGENT THEATRE. “ANOTHER THIN MAN.” Shifting with a deft pace from baby 1 parties to bizarre crime, from martial mirth (o murder thrills, and from palatial Long Island estates to the dives of New York, “Another Thin 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 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., the baby whoso arrival was predicted at the end of the preceding picture. The laughs, centring around Nickie, Jr., a. played by eight-months-old William Poufsen, reach a hilarious climax with a babv party given in his honour by underworld pals of Detective Charles. 'Pile 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 ! cstale and Nick is called in to investigate. In the typically shrewd fashion of the “Thin-Man” sleuth. Nick solves the murder, even though ho 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 bis own murder. STATE THEATRE. “CITY IN DARKNESS.” All the thrills and suspense of a Paris blackout await you on the State Theatre screen in “Charlie Chan in City In Darkness,” the exciting new 20th Century-Vox melodrama. Caught, like so many .others, in the tense city during those unforgettable days of crisis’ when the onc-c-gay capital lived in dread of air raids and inaugurated the protective blackout, Chan, in the person of Sidney Toler, is commandeered in tiic great human emergency. For, although Paris is plunged into darkness, the authorities quickly learn that there is no blackout for crime, 'and the greatest detective is set to work fighting the dangers tiiat lurk under cover of the inky blackness. Lynn Bari, Richard Clarke, Harold Huber, Pedro dc Corodoba, Dorothy Tree, C. Henry Gordon, Douglas Dumbrille and Noel Madison are featured in Toler's support in “Charlie C'lian in City in Darkness.” Despair about “what is our youth coming to?” is a recognised conversation piece of the older generation of every era and it is even more true of our own. Wbetli ;r of the malurcr folk or a youth yourself, you've heard of youngsters like, these, and on the screen of tile State Theatre there is unfolded a drama that will tell you more about them. It’s “Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence,” 20th Century-Fox film featuring Jean Rogers, Raymond Walburn, Marjorie Rambeau'and Glenn Ford and Nicholas Conte in their film debut.