COMING ATTRACTIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1939, Page 5

COMING ATTRACTIONS

COSY THEATRE. TOMORROW: "The Old Barr Dance." starring your favourite singing cowboy, Gene Autry, with Smiley Burnette, Walter Shrum and his Colorado Hillbillies, Frankie Marvin and the Stafford Sisters in the chiet roles. “Ex-Champ." (They couldn't stop him in the ring or out), featuring Victor McLaglen. Tom Brown. Nan Grey, Constance Moore, William Frawley and Mare Lawrence. Also episode 9 of "The Lone Ranger.” DECEMBER 19—21: "The Man in the Mirror,' featuring Edward Everett Horton, with Genevieve Tobin. Ursula Jeans, Garry Marsh, Alistair Sim and Renee Gadd. “Sabotage," starring Oscar Homolka, Sylvia Sydney, John Loder and Desmond Lester. DECEMBER 22—23: "Something to Sing About.” with a different, daring and debonair James Cagney, supported by Evelyn Daw, William Frawley, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart, Harry Barris, Candy Candjdo and Philip Ahn. "Stunt Pilot,” a new daredevil thriller, with Tailspin Tommy, John Trent, Marjorie Reynolds and Milburn Stone in the leading roles. REGENT THEATRE. TONIGHT: “Jezebel,” starring Bette Davis (double academy award winner), with Henry Fonda. George Brent, Margaret Lyndsay, Fay Bain-

ter 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. SATURDAY: -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). Pathe Pictorial, an absorbing allcolour study of Australian events entitled "This Place Australia,” and the latest Air Mail News of European events. DECEMBER 20 —21: “Christmas Carol” (a truly inspiring interpretation of Charles Dickens’s most loved story), featuring Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Terry Kilburn. Lynne Carver, Ann Rutherford and Ronald Sinclair. An excellent supporting programme includes: "The Book Worm” (Technicolour Cartoon). “One Against the World" (John Nesbitt’s Passing Parade), Regent Overseas News. DECEMBER 22—-26: “Dodge City." a grand Christmas attraction. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland in Warner Brother’s gigantic production of action and thrills (in all technicoloui’ and constituting the firs', release in New Zealand?, with Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale and Henry O'Neill. Splendid supporting programme includes: ‘Porky the Gob” (Cartoon), “The Crawford’s at Home” (Musical), and Regent Air Mail News. STATE THEATRE. FRIDAY, December 15 to Thursday 21 (one week): Alexander Korda’s mighty production, universally acclaimed as one of the greatest pictures of all time, "The Four Feathers.” filmed entirely in technicolour, with Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, John Clements, June Duprez and a cast of thousands. Outstanding supports include the latest issue of "The March of Time.” FRIDAY, December 22: A magnificent Christmas attraction. The world’s skating sweetheart, Sonja Henie, with Tyrone Power in Irving Berlin’s dazzling musical romance, “Second Fiddle.” AMONG THE STATE’S LINE-UP OF COMING ATTRACTIONS ARE THE FOLLOWING BIG FILMS:—Sonja Henie and Tyrone Power in "Second Fiddle;" Gracie Fields in "Shipyard Sally;’’ Anna 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 Lion Has Wings," starring Merle Oberon and Ralph Richardson. This film includes actual shots of the raid on the Kiel Canal. KAY FRANCIS DEPARTURE FROM GLAMOUR ROLES. Kay Francis, who made a comeback hit as the wife in “In Name Only" and just about succeeded in stealing the picture from Carole Lombard, is reading the script of "The Swiss Family Robinson." which Gene Towne and Graham Baker will film for R.K.O The news abou* this : s the fact that Miss Francis is likely to take the -ole of the mother, which will make her the screen mother of Freddie Bartholomew. Terry Kilburn, and Tim Holt. This means that she has decided to depart. from glamour roles in favour of solid character- portrayals.