ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 246, 16 September 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “THE SUN NEVER SETS.” Douglas Fairbanks, Juni-., and Basil Ratlibone virtually symbolise an empire in Universal’s “The Sun Never Sets,” which shows to-day at . the Kosy Theatre. This is a picture dealing with the British Colonial Civil Service, which protects 500,000,000 people over an area of 13,000,000 square miles. But the whole story is told through two brothers, portrayed by Fairbanks and Rathbone. And they reveal a powerful drama. Both are ranked among Hollywood’s foremost actors. Seldom have they turned in performances equal to those in this film. The picture opens with an extremely interesting series of scenes showing the British Empire from the time of Queen Elizabeth to the present. Then follows the story of the two brothers. Both arc members ot an old family whose sons have been in “tho service” for more than 300 years. Rathbone, the elder, had followed family tradition and given his life in service. Fairbanks rebels at being so harnessed by tradition. But he finally goes into the service. He costs Rathbone his job be cause of a deliberate blunder. but straightens everything out in the end. The most brilliant comedy with the largest cast of stage and screen rev impersonalities will be shown lieic to-day. The film is “Okay for Sound,” a G.B.D. attraction starring the unsurpassable comic team —the Crazy Gang. The Crazy' Gang is composed of (hree of London's most celebrated humour duos—Nervo and Knox, Flanagan and Allen, and Naughton and Gold, all of whom have entertained you per medium of radio and recordings.

STATE THEATRE. “LITTLE OLD NEW YORK.” The boisterous town of the good old days, when eovvs roamed Fifth Avenue and a barmaid —or a lady—could win a man like Robert Fulton, are brought vividly to life on tho screen in “Liltle Old New York,”-the 20th L'entui-y-F’ox film, which shows at the State Theatre. with Alice Faye, Fred AlacAlurray, Richard Greene and Brenda Joyce heading a splendid cask This robust, romantic drama c-asls Alice Faye in ' her most colourful role as tho fiery belle of the waterfront who 101 l bead long in love with handsome Robert Kui ton —and went alter him, while the whoie brawling waterfront cheered her on. Mao-. Murray is seen as the burly- shipbuilder engaged to build tho Clermont, after Fu! ton’s model, for the first steamboat; Greene is aeon as the dashing inv sntor himself; and blonde Brenda Joyce liu* the role of the lovely girl who loved him, helped him to attain his dream in the face of ridicule, and who later became hia wife. Others prominently featured ill the east are Andy Devine, Henry Stephenson and F’ritz Feld. Directed by Henry King, “Little Old New York” offers the most ejiectaculvir production of the produccidirec’or combination which gave to the screen such unforgettable films as “In Old Chicago,” “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” “Stanley anc! Livingstone” and “Jesse Janies." Before the actual filming of “Little Old New York” began, the director, his ■ assistant, and a camera crew spent a few weeks in the east photograph ing old New York backgrounds and scenes along the Hudson for the production. They also did a vast amount of research on the history of the town and the career of Robert Fulton.