COMING ATTRACTIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1940, Page 9

COMING ATTRACTIONS

z ' REGENT THEATRE. SATURDAY, Monday, Tuesday: “THE SISTERS,” starring Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Alan Hale and a grand cast. A gloriously unforgettable romance, it is an outstanding dramatic triumph. Based on one of the best sellers of many years it becomes a vibrant motion picture with its brilliant stars and mighty supporting cast —romance, tragedy and comedy all play their part. A perfect array of Regent featurettes. WEDNESDAY, Thursday. Friday: "STAND UP AND FIGHT” (Wallace Beery, Robert Taylor, Florence Rice and a grand cast) in a rousing drama of the men who built the west. Your pulse will pound and your senses thrill to its mighty action, superb romance and its lavish production. A picture for all. . COMING REGENT ATTRACTIONS: “IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD” (James Stewart and Claudette Colbert in the gayest comedy romance of the year); “GOODBYE MR CHIPS” (Robert Donat and Greer Garson in the most perfect picture ever made); “THE UNDERPUP" i featuring Gloria Jean, the sensa--tional new discovery); “ANDY HARDY GETS SPRING FEVER” (the funniest and most delightful of all the series); “DARK VICTORY” (Bette Davis's sensational triumph); “BEAU GESTE” (the glorious story of the Foreign Legion in all gorgeous technicolour); “BROADWAY SERENADE” (Jeanette MacDonald's loveliest triumph of song); "MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON” (Frank Capra's latest triumph and many others. STATE THEATRE. TONIGHT (Friday): Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy together again after a separation of two years, in a fulllength feature of unprecedented comedy. “THE FLYING DEUCES.” You’ll have the laugh of your lives when you see filmdom”s famous funsters join the Foreign Legion. It's a positive riot. The supports include the latest “March of Time,” and other interesting featurettes. FRIDAY NEXT (March 15): “THE LION HAS WINGS,” by Alexander Korda. The most eagerly awaited entertainment to come to Masterton. A mighty production which is shattering records throughout New Zealand. The stars include Ralph Richardson and Merle Oberon, I and the Royal Air Force with actual | shots of the raid on the Kiel Canal, s The record of this picture alone stamps it as the greatest film brought to this country. It ran for 7 weeks in Wellington, 9 weeks in Auckland. 7 weeks in Christchurch and is still booming. Watch for further announcements of special sessions. fe COMING SOON TO THE STATE: f The following magnificent recordbreaking attractions: —“THE RAINS CAME,” Louis Bromfields's famous novel brought to the screen ■ with vivid realism by' Myrna Loy, Tyrene Power. George Brent and Nigel Bruce—another great triumph for Twentieth-Century Fox. “HOTEL FOR WOMEN.” based on Elsa Maxwell’s now famous story and introducing Hollywood’s latest (contribution to stardom, Linda Darnell. This is another film which is meeting with tremendous success. “THE HOUSEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER." a rip-roaring comedy produced by

Hal Roach and starring Joan Bonnett with Adolphe Menjou. If you love comedy at its very best then tfiis is a picture for your -‘must see list.” "THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME,” starring Charles Laughton, Victor Hugo's mighty novel of novels. Produced on a scale that beggars description. An R.K.O. super-show. “MAJOR BARBARA. George Bernard Shaw’s satire. starring Wendy Hiller, Sir Cedric Hai dwicke, Ralph Richardson. Destined to be greater than "Pygmalion.” “THE STARS LOOK DOWN,” from the best selling novel by A. J. Cronin, starring Michael Redgrave. Margaret Lockwood and Emlyn Williams. “MOLLY BLESS HER.” produced on a big scale budget and starring the inimitable Gracie Fields. “HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE.” produced entirely in Technicolour; a stirring romantic cavalcade of the movies from their very beginning to the present day. COSY THEATRE. FRIDAY. Saturday. Monday: “GOING PLACES" (Dick Powell. Anita Louise and Allen Jenkins in a sizzling triumph of comedy, brimming jiver with laughs, screening with ■“THE HOUSE OF FEAR,” William Gargan, Irene Hervey in a mystery lhat is strange, perilous and baffling. A brilliant two-feature offering. TUESDAY Wednesday. Thursday: “THREE SMART GIRLS GROW UP (Deanna Durbin al her refreshing, loveliest and vocally perfect best), with Charles Winninger, Nan Grey, and Helen Parrish in support, screening with “THE MISSING GUEST" (Paul Kelly, Constance Moore and William Lundigan, in an intriguing highly amusing, ghostly, and giggly mystery story). COMING COSY ATTRACTIONS: “OUR RELATIONS” (Laurel and

Hardy); “THE AWFUL TRUTH" (Carv Grant and Irene Dunne): “ALANDERS RAGTIME BAND” (a musical feast); “ROBIN HOOD” (in all glorious technicolour); “DINNER AT THE RITZ” and “THE 39 STEPS” (one of Robert Donat's greatest successes) .