COMING ATTRACTIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1940, Page 9

COMING ATTRACTIONS

COSY THEATRE. Friday, ..Saturday, ..Monday.— ‘'NEWS BOYS’ HOMES,” (starring Jackie Cooper, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barry and the little Tough Guys in a thrilling story of lovely kids caught in the jungle of pitiless streets and fighting beneath their rags for the only home they knew. The associate feature, “231 HOURS’ LEAVE” stars James Ellison and Terry Walker in a sidespliting comedy of army life. It is a real lifetime of laughs packed into an hilarious sixty minutes. Also screening is the second chapter of the great serial. “BUCK ROGERS.” This season is particularly notable, not only for the excellent feature fare but also marks the opening of the CENTENNIAL BABY CONTEST with 80 beautiful and charming Masterton babies appearing on the screen in a moving film. Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday—“DlNNEß* AT THE RITZ,” featuring Annabella, Paul Lukas and David Niven in a thrilling story of dangerous intrigue, set amidst scenes of Paris, Monte Carlo and the ' Midterranean. Patrons are whirled through its action-packed excitement to the most thrilling climax they’ve ever seen. Also screening is “'ALWAYS GOODBYE” (one of the truly “great” pictures, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, lan Hunter and a grand cast in a powerful story of a woman in love and her valiant struggle to win happiness that is her woman’s right. Remember.. “THE BABY CONTEST" is at the COSY. REGENT THEATRE. Saturday. Monday, Tuesday.—“DAßK VICTORY.” Bette Davis, Academy Award winner in two successive year in unquestionably her greatest triumph. The management states that it is a love story so exquisite that patrons sit under the spell of its appeal. Bette Davis is unforgettably great and splendid support is given by George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald and a large cast. Produced with a smoothness and polish rare even in these days, the very sincerity of its performance results in a lasting impression of something really outstanding and fine. The featurettes include the latest air mail news, a delightful melody master and a merrie melody cartoon. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.—"LADY OF THE TROPICS." A sensuous story of the exotic East, introducing

the screen’s sensational beauty, Hedy Lamarr, teamed with romantic Robt. Taylor. Told amid lavish oriental settings, all the mysticism and intrigue of an Indo-Chinese city add further colour to a romance as exciting as it is appealing. The featurettes include Robt. Benchley in “See Your Dictor,” a Fitzpatrick all colour travelogue and Overseas News. Commencing Saturday, April 20. — "BEAU GESTE.” This is Paramount's eagerly awaited all colour triumph of the most thrilling story of the Foreign Legion ever written, starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland and Robt. Preston. The management recommend it as the greatest adventure '""'romance ever filmed, while the addition of colour renders many of its scenes of breath-taking beauty. STATE THEATRE. TO-NIGHT (Friday).—Two first class features as well as Fox Aussie and Fox International Latest Newsreels. (1) Charlie Chan in “CITY IN DARKNESS,” with Sidney Toler. Lynn Bari and a strong cast. (2) “THE HONEYMOON'S OVER.” a comedy packed with laughs starring Stuart Erwin and Marjorie Weaver. COMING SOON TO THE STATE—“HOTEL FOR WOMEN,” introducing the new star sensation. Linda Darnell. “THE RAINS CAME." Louis Bromfield's great novel. Tyrone Power, Myrna Loy, George Brent. “THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME." with Charles Laughton in a performance that overshadows Lon Chaney's epic of the silent days. "HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE." All in technicolour. The romantic story of the growth of Hollywood from early silent days to the present time. Cast: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Stuart Erwin. J. Edward Bromberg and Buster Keaton. “THE SON OF MONTE CRISTO,” starring Louis Hayward; a United Artists Special, and sequel to “The Count of Monte Cristo." "1,000,000 B.C." —Produced I by D. W. Griffith. Featuring Victor | Mature, Lon Chaney, juni:., Carole j Landis. John Hubbard. Mamo | Clark and Jacqueline Dahlia. Direct-; ed by Hal Roach. A titanic produc-1 tion dealing with the world at the dawn of time and the story of the original man and woman. “A CHUMP AT OXFORD."—Positively the greatest of the Laurel and Hardy pictures. Produced by Hal Roach through United Artists.

WARTIME AUDIENCES HOLLYWOOD PROBLEM. A Biblical cycle will be Hollywood's answer to the problem of wartime audiences. Cecil B. de Mille, who has made a specialty of this type of entertainment, is early in the field. As soon as he finishes “North West Mounted Police” he will produce and direct a story of Mary of Nazareth. This, it is announced, will be a companion picture to de Mille’s "King of Kings," and will probably be titled "Queen of Queens." No one has yet been assigned to the title roles. Among other of de Mille’s successful Biblical subjects were "The Ten Commandments" and "The Sign cf the Cross.”

DOMESTIC TROUBLES GINGER ROGERS'S DIVORCE. With tears in her eyes and twisting her handkerchief nervously Gingei Rogers told the Superior Court ir Hollywood that her husband, Lew Ayres, had deserted her in-1936 aftei they had been married only It months. Miss Rogers was granted a decree nisi. She said that Ayres constantly criticised her. her friends, and her work Il made her very nervous. She lost weight, and one day he told her ir get out and go home io her - mother There was nothing else' for her to de I but go.

| The matter of pistol shots provided [real complication. The noise of a shot I that would not be so loud that it would I drown out dialogue was one requireIment. The sound man fixed this with I a sharp, vibrating report obtained by ! snapping a rubber band against a sheet iof thick cardboard that was held up loosely by thumb and forefinger. When | the noise of arrows, hurtling through ■ the air. was needed, a bullet noise had to be substituted. Maurice Manne, the head sound man. took the sound made 'by rille bullets striking against stone | and ricocheting off in various dircc- ' lions, and erased the crack of the gun land the plunk of its impact against the I stone. The richocheting noise that was left resembled the noise of an arrow in (light. The clatter of an ordinary horsedrawn milk wagon sufficed for the scene in which, spies slam a coach door and drive off in style; but a real coach had to be obtained, sound tracked anc eliminated first. When the same three spies were supposed to part a clump of bushes and sneak a look at the goingson out on the highways, the real rustle of twigs and leaves did not sound like itself, so a handful of cellophane was crumpled up and then slowly shaken ti simulate the exact effect. When one of the characters rolled down a staircase, his bruises anc bumps were forgotten in the sound men's humorous handling of the situation by rattling a metal bucket containing a handful of nails. When an(■filler character fell into a pool ol waler the appropriate effect was obtained by blowing into a glass of watoi through a straw. Maurice Manne had that ingi'iii.itr idea, after ail kinds of big and little splashes, gurgles, turning on of watei faucets, sloshing around of hali’-filloci bottles, failed to fill the bill. When die steeple bells of Lilliput were clanged in a warning, the peal of a ship's bell, or a church bell failed to qualify, but a sot of modern iron l , door chimes—brass cylinders of long and short length—served perfectly. There was only one sound that : lumped die sound men. Thai was ihe sound of Gidliver's lieart beats, as the giant lay asleep on the Lilliput seashore, and the pumping of his exhausted heart sounded like a sinister roar to the panicky Lilliputians. The sound men tried til most every tiling. They finally tried even applying a physic- I bin's stethoscope to the heart of one o! I the animators, and then magnify the sound of the real hearbeart. That sat-1 isfied everybody. That is, it satisfied '

everybody until a doctor sat in at a preview of the reel which included the hartbeat scene. ’Gulliver has a heart murmur,” the physician told the studio men. and the sound men had to go out again, get a man with a guaranteed heart, and shoot their incident all over.