COMING ATTRACTIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1939, Page 4

COMING ATTRACTIONS

STATE THEATRE. FRIDAY. December 3: A stirring dramatic film patrons must see —“In Name Only,” starring Kay Francis, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant. A brilliant State supporting programme includes: Wail Disney’s “Society Dog Show;” a sports thrill, "Fisherman’s Paradis?:” Fox Aussie and Pathe Newsreels, and another of the new series of "The Camera Daredevils.” TUESDAY, December 12: A new and sparkling comedy from the pen ol Ben Travers, "Cid Iron,” with Tom Walls in the Stella role. An associate programme includes "News is Made at Night,” with Preston Foster and the alluring Lynn Bari. FRIDAY, December 15: The most eagerly awaited of all screen triumphs. Alexander Korda’s “The Four Feathers,” filmed entirely in technicolour and starring Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, John Clements. June Duprez and a cast of thousands. On the same programme is the latest "March of Time” entitled “War, Peace and Propaganda." a vital subject of exceptional interest. Among the State’s line-up of coming attractions are the following big films: —Sonja Henie and Tyrone Power in "Second Fiddle;" Grade Fields in "Shipyard Sally;" Anne Neagle in "Nurse Edith Cavell;” Spencer Tracey in "Stanley and Livingstone:” the Royal Air Force epic screened recently by command of their Majesties the King and Queen, "The I.ion Has Wings,” starring Merle Oberon and Ralph Richardson. This film includes actual shots of the raid on the Kiel Canal. COSY THEATRE. TOMORROW: "Luck of the Navy,” featuring Gecffrev Toone, Judy Kelly, Albert Burden, John Wood, Clifford Evans and Olga Lindo. "Men Are Such Fools.” The leading roles are taken by Wayne Morris,

Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Hugh. Herbert, Mona Barrie and Penny Singleton; also episode 8 of "The Lone Ranger.” DECEMBER 12—14: "The Man Who Lived Twice” (transformed from killer to genius by a surgeon’s scalpel), starring Ralph Bellamy, Marian Marsh, Thurston Hall, Isabel Jewell, Ward Bond and Henry Kolker. "Motor Madness” (a thrilling romance of motor-boat racing, with Rosalind Keith, Allen Brook, Mare Lawrence, J. M. Kerrigan, George Ernest and Arthur Loft in the leading roles. DECEMBER 15—18: "The Old Barn Dance,” starring the favourite singing cowboy, Gene Autry, with Smiley Burnette. Walter Shrum and his Colorado Hillbillies, Frankie Marvin and the Stafford Sisters in the chief roles. "Ex-Champ.” (They couldn’t stop him in the ring or out), featuring Victor MeLaglen, Tom Brown, Nan Grey, Constance Moore, William Frawley and Mare Lawrence. Also episode 9 of “The Lone Ranger.” REGENT THEATRE. SATURDAY: “Ice Follies of 1939” (the biggest screen show since the Great Ziegfield), featuring Joan Crawford, Lew Ayres, James Stewart, Lewis Stone, Bess Ehrhardt, Lionel Stan-| der, Truman Bradley and the Inter-1 national Ice Follies. Roy Shipstead. I Eddie Shipstead and Oscar Johnson. Featurettes include: “Picturesque Udaipur” (Fitzpatrick Traveltalk), "Great Hart" (a Carey Wilson specialty), "Radio Hams” (Pete Smith specialty), and Regent. Air Mail News. The picture. "Ice Follies of 1939," has created a sensation Wherever shown and is a most brilliant spectacle, challenging the wonders of “The Great Ziegfield.” The picture teems with grandeur and thrills. DECEMBER 14—15: "Jezebel,” starring Bette Davis (double academy award winner), with Henry Fonda, George Brent. Margaret Lyndsay, Fay Bainter and Donald Crisp in the chief characters. The supporting programme includes: "Vitaphone Pictorial Revue" (Interest sequence in technicolour). Arnold Johnson and his Orchestra (Melody Master), and Regent Overseas News. DECEMBER IG—l9: "The Four Just Men” (Britain’s greatest spy picture, a thrilling up-to-the-minute exposure of the spy menace), featuring Francis L. Sullivan. Frank Lawton, Hugh Sinclair and Anna Lee. Excellent featurettes include: "March of the Movies” <an outstanding number), Patho Pictorial, an absorbing allcolour study of Australian events entitled "This Place Australia.” and the latest Air Mail News of European events. “AUCKLAND. IS DEAD” MUSICALLY AND THEATRICALLY. “Auckland is dead, theatrically and musically," said. Miss Violet Roe le on re-visiting New Zealand, according to a Sydneypaper.