ALFREDTON PICTURES
PROGRAMME FOR THURSDAY. Gracie Fields the jovial queen of comedy, toast of Britain, returns to the screen in a new film in which she sings and dances as only she can. The film opens with the scene of the Queen Elizabeth christening and launching the newest of the liners, named after herself. The great British shipyards at Clydebank, Scotland, being the setting for Gracie Field’s latest comedy film, “Shipyard Sally.” to be shown at Alfredton tomorrow night, in which she is starred with Sydney Howard. This time Gracie Field is the unexpected proprietor of a pub in Clydebank. Unexpected, because until her erratic father (played by Sydney Howard) invested all her savings in the tavern, he and Gracie had been barnstorming the isles as a music hall team. She soon becomes the fast friend of the shipbuilders, practically the blooming queen of the shipyards, and when Gracie Field gets up steam it’s time for all good sailors to beware. Prominent in the cast is young Oliver Wakefield, famed “double-talk” comedian of the radio who introduces some new verbal tricks in this picture. “
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1940, Page 7
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184ALFREDTON PICTURES Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1940, Page 7
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