ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 160, 6 June 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

STATE THEATRt. “CITY IN DARKNESS.” All . the" thrills and suspense bf u Paris blackout await you 1 on-the State Theatre screen in “Charlie Clian in City In Darkness,’’ the exciting new 20th Century-l'ox melodrama. Caught-, like so many others, in the tense city during' those . unforgettable days l of crisis when; the . oncc-guy capital lived in dread of air raids and inaugurated the protective blackout, Chan, in the person of Sidney Toler, is commandeered in the 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 lighting tile dangers -that lurk under cover of the inky blackness. Lynn Bari, Richard Clarke, Harold Iluber, l’cdro do Corodoba, Dorothy Tree, C. Henry Gordon, Douglas Dumbrilfe and Noel Madison are featured iii Toler's support in “Charlie Chan in City in Darkness.” Despair about “what is our youth coming tois a recognised conversation piece of the older :generation of every era and it is even more true of our 1 own. Whetlur oE the maturcr folk or a youth yourself, you’ve heard of youngsters like these, and on the screen of the State Theatre there ;is. unfolded a drama that will tell you more about them. It’s “Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence,” 20(h Century-Fox film featurin'’- Jean Rogers, Raymond-AViilbufn, Marjorie Rambeau and Glemi -Ford and Nicholas Conte in,their film debut. REGENT THEATRE. t “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,, . Thin, Man,” latest of tiie sparkling “Thin Man”. - series. teams that favourite screen pair,. William Powell and Myrna Low, 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 scries, gets away with a new .high in this offering due lo 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 AVil- ' linin' Pouisen. reach a hilarious climax with a bahv; party given in..his honour by underworld pals of Detective Charles The story brings tiie Charles, family and their quizzical wire-haired ierrier. , 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 the “Thin Man” sleuth. ” Nick solves the murder, even though lie- has to. lake time oft now and then . to rescue .Nora from a tough New York dive, attend (lie baby party ; and - upset plans for his ! own murdbiv