COMING ATTRACTIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1940, Page 9

COMING ATTRACTIONS

| COSY THEATRE. iI I FRIDAY. Saturday. June 28. 29. MonB day, July 1: "SECRET SERVICE OF I THE AIR." featuring Ronald Reagan. J John Litel. and Ila Rhodes. This film is the first of a new series to be issued by Warner Brothers, featuring highlights from the colourful career of W. H. Moran, formerly chief of the American Secret Service. The film is concerned with the attempts of the service to break up a huge ring of racketeers engaged in smuggling aliens into the United States. “STEPPING TOES.” starring Hazel Ascot, Enid Stamp-Taylor, and Jack Barty. Introducing the screen's newest juvenile star Hazel Ascot, in a sparkling, spectacular show packed with music, whirlwind dancing, and catchy tunes. Only nine years old, Hazel presents her talent as well as the most seasoned performer. Her natural acting is a credit to an actress so young. She is supported by several juveniles who are equally natural in their actions. "Lone Ranger Rides Again.” episode 8; "Oregon Trail." episode 1 (Saturday matinee). TUESDAY, Wednesday, Thursday: “A YANK AT OXFORD,” featuring Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Maureen O’Sullivan, Lionel Barrymore, and Edmund Gwenn. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s whirlwind of thrills, laughs and fights . . . The sensational success of "A YANK AT OXFORD” confirms the astute choice of vehicle for Robert Taylor, a virile, rugged screen romance that brings something re- - freshingly new in entertainment. COMING ATTRACTIONS: Brilliant ; return seasons have been booked for ‘ the special “family” nights, these including “ROSE MARIE,” “CAFE ‘ SOCIETY.” “IT’S IN THE AIR,” and “PYGMALION.” J t t REGENT THEATRE. i 1 SATURDAY, June 29, Monday and j Tuesday, July 1 and 2: "NINO- j TCHKA," with Greta Garbo, Melvyn c Douglas, Ina Claire, and Bela Lugosi. £ Metro-Goldwyn - Mayer's delightful farce, “NINOTCHKA.” Garbo laughs r and pop go the champagne corks, and v pop goes the fun —when Garbo steps out as a new intoxicatingly different j

personality. The gayest thing in gay Paree. Greta Garbo —a Bolshevik who preferred champagne to Vodka. Mervyn Douglas—a capitalist who proved to her that a kiss was not just a State-regulated biological urge. And Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski —three Soviet delegates—a riotous version of the Marx Brothers. A sparkling modern comedy of a lady commissar who let her country’s five-year plan go hang when a charming Parisian mowed her down with a love plan that would take a lifetime to work out. Lubitsch it was who made Garbo laugh, chivvy and chide herself like a clown, get hopelessly and gloriously tipsy—in short, do everything which a young woman on the spree in Paris could conceivably do. Featurettes include the latest Air Mail News, featuring the U.S. Navy mobilisation; the ominous sign of spring on the Western front, the Cinesound Gazette with special shots of the A.I.F. in Palestine and a Pete Smith Specialty, “Stuffie.” WEDNESDAY. Thursday, Friday, July 3. 4 and 5: “THE TOWER OF LONDON,” featuring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, lan Hunter, Barbara O’Neill and Ronald Sinclair. Magnificent drama spreading before the eyes against a background of breathtaking excitement. Dark, fascinatingsecrets lurk behind these grim towers. It is fascinating entertainment. As Henry 111, the unscrupulous and clever Duke of Gloucester, who refused to allow the fact that he was sixth in succession to the Throne io be a serious bar to his ambition. Basil Rathbone gives an outstanding performance. Boris Karloff as Mord. the executioner, and Barbara O'Neill, are splendidly cast. Supporting sub- 1 jects include the Overseas News.’ with special views of the training of | our young heroes for the bombing squadrons, a brilliant musical “Swing | Hotel,” an interesting study of the biblical Queen of Sheba, and an allcolour cartoon, “A Hunting We Will Go.”

COMING ATTRACTIONS. Early screening have been arranged for the following outstanding attractions which, in all respects, are among the finest the screen has to offer: "IT'S A DATE” (Deanna Durbin’s happiest hit); “TOMORROW COMES" (Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, is a romantic symphony set to music); “JUAREZ” (the mighty screen triumph, featuring Paul Muni and Bette Davis); “SONS OF THE SEA” (the all-colour triumph of Britain's might); “GULLIVER’S TRAVELS" (the exquisite all-colour feature cartoon fantasy); and “ANOTHER THIN MAN” (William Powell and Myrna Loy in the all-conquering successor to the famous "Thin Man.”)

STATE THEATRE. FRIDAY. Saturday. Monday, June 28, 29 and July 1: The star who is always exciting .... in a picture thrillingly different. “EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT.” with Sonja Henie, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings and the late Maurice Moscovich. Also screening is the latest March of Time, “RUSSIA AND THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND.” which in its revelations is greater than any other film. TUESDAY. Wednesday, Thursday. July 2, 3 and 4: Timely, stirring, romantic and actionful saga of the heroes of the sky, “20,000 MEN A YEAR,” starring Randolph Scott. Preston Foster. Margaret Lindsay. Also gala return by popular request of Louis Bromfield's “THE RAINS CAME,” with Myrna Loy. Tyrone Power. George Brent and Brenda | Joyce. FRIDAY NEXT. July 5: “PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES." the happiest go-lucky musical comedy seen for months. Jane "Withers (as the brav-i est little Madamoiselle in all France), the Ritz Bros, (they’re in the army now, telling the general off!), and Lynn Bari. COMING SOON TO THE STATE: “REBECCA," now in its fourth week at the King's, Wellington, and still breaking all records. “PINOCCHIO. . for the young in heart of every age. Writ Disney presents another excitingly different and gloriously new world. “THE STARS LOOK DOWN." from the great novel by A. J. Cronin. ' FOR FREEDOM." a picture to stir the heart of every Britisher. “THE WESTERNER,” a Samuel Goldwyn production, starring Gary Cooper.