COASTAL TALKIES PROGRAMMES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1940, Page 3

COASTAL TALKIES PROGRAMMES.

NEXT WEEK'S SCREENINGS. Gracie Fields is with us again! The jovial queen of comedy, toast oi Britam and the Continent, returns to the screen in a new film in which she sings and dances as only she can. It is "Shipyard Sallv," 20th Century-Fox release, in which she is starred with Sydney Howard. Directed by famed Monty Banks, from a screen play by Karl Tunberg and Don Ettlinger. the film gives Gracie the background she likes best — the working class of England. Herself Lorn of impoverished parents in the smoky mui town of Rochdale in Lancashire, Gracie is the idol of the commoners and is considered by them the best of Rochdale s two great contributions to the world. The other, you may remember, is the consumers' co-operative movement, starled by the town's weavers more than 100 years ago. This time Gracie is the unexpected proprietor of a pub m Clvdebank. the shipbuilding centre oi Scotland. Unexpected, because until her erratic father (played by Sydney. Howard) invested all her savings in the tavern he and Gracie had been barnstorming the isles as a music hall team. She soon becomes the fast friend of the shipbuilders, practically the queen of the shipyards, and the film unfolds in a series of entertaining sequences how Gracie gets them all work after a big slump in the ship-building trade.