COMING ATTRACTIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1940, Page 9

COMING ATTRACTIONS

COSY THEATRE.

SATURDAY. MONDAY. March 23. 25: “TWO BRIGHT BOYS," featuring Freddie Bartholomew. Jackie Cooper. Melville Cooper and Alan Dinehart in a dramatic story of oil gushers and the fighting fury of desperate men grappling for black gold. The companion feature, “WOMEN ARE LIKE THAT." stars Kay Francis and Pat O'Brien in a light romantic sophisticated comedy de luxe.

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY, March 26-28: "THE AWFUL TRUTH,” a delightful comedy classic, starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Its brilliance is well known and many requests have been received for its return. Also screening is the amazing “GIRLS’ SCHOOL," the frank and amazing story of girls on the threshold of life, featuring Anne Shirley, Nan Grey and Ralph Bellamy, it is most impressive in its sincerity and startling in its revelations.

COMING SOON: “ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND" (a musical feast); “ROBIN HOOD" (in all colour); "INVITATION TO HAPPINESS” (Irene Dunne), and many other gems. REGENT THEATRE. SATURDAY TO FRIDAY: “GOODBYE MR CHIPS,” “the finest entertainment in the history of motion pictures,” states the management of the Regent Theatre. Robert Donat as "Chips" was accorded the Academy Award of the year and to meet him is to make a life-long friend. A refreshing story of English youth, stirring, dramatic, humorous in one, it is told with an eloquence and simple beauty no other screen play has ever captured. To quote just one critic: “Whatever may yet come to the screen, the presentation of ’Goodbye Mr Chips’ will always remain one of its finest masterpieces.” Greer Garson, a brilliant cultured and charming actress, makes her first bow to screen audiences and gives an outstanding performance. The management state that no praise is too much for this glorious production. Featurettes have been specially chosen to match the beauty of the chief feature and include “Mendelssohn's Wedding March," in all-colour, narrated by James A. Fitzpatrick. The whole is a superb artistic accomplishment and an evening's entertainment never to be forgotten.

SATURDAY, March 30: “THE UNDERPUP,” New Universal's delightful vehicle, introducing to picturegoers Gloria Jean, regarded on all hands as the successor to Deanna Durbin. A charming 11-year-old possessed of an amazing voice of particular sweetness and flexible to an extraordinary degree. A superb cast headed by Nan Grey, C. Aubrey Smith. Robert Cummings and others enter with zest into their supporting roles, resulting in a picture remarkable for its freshness, charm I and polish. It is significant that Joe E. Pasternak, the inspired genius of all the Durbin pictures, is the director, and has succeeded in presenting two such refreshing and charming stars as Deanna Durbin and Gloria Jean. The management state Gloria Jean will win all hearts as surely as her famous predecessor Deanna Durbin. STATE THEATRE. SATURDAY. March 23: Richard Greene in a drama which earns him] undying stardom. “HERE I AM A, STRANGER." one of the finest pictures of its kind since “Sorrell and J Son." The supporting programme is superb and includes the Gaumont British news scoop of “THE SCUTTLING OF THE GRAF SPEE." Every detail is shown in one thousand feet of this great British naval victory. Another featurette worthy of particular mention is the New Zealand short, "LINERS OF THE

SKYWAYS." Also on the programme is the Fox Aussie News with special shots of the Eucharistic Congress in Wellington. COMING SOON TO THE STATE: The following magnificent recordbreaking attractions:—"THE RAINS CAME," Louis Bromfields's famous novel brought to the screen with vivid realism by Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent aiid 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 Bennett with Adolphe Menjou. If you love comedy at its very best then this 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 brilliant satire. starring Wendy Hiller. Sir Cedric Hardwieke, 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 Lock wood 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.