COMING ATTRACTIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1940, Page 9

COMING ATTRACTIONS

REGENT THEATRE. SATURDAY, Monday, Tuesday: “SAFARI,” the Paramount thrilling romance set in the beauty of the African Jungle, features Douglas Fairbanks Junr. and Madeleine Carroll, with a superb supporting cast include ing Tullio Carminati, set far from civilisation’s laws, it reveals a thrilling triangle of two men and their fight for one woman’s love. The scenic settings are truly magnificent. Featurettes include the latest Air Mail News, giving inspiring views of America’s aircraft “speed-up” to assist Britain; the latest Popeye Cartoon, a most interesting peep at the latest advance made in Television; etc. WEDNESDAY, Thursday, Friday: ' Metro’s brilliant “EARL OF CHICAGO,” a story with a most novel twist and one of the most discussed pictures in New Zealand today. Featuring Robert Montgomery, Edward Arnold, Reginald Owen and Edmund Gwenn, it is most brilliantly acted and~produced. Featurettes include a great Our Gang Comedy, a gorgeous all-colour Fitzpatrick Noveltalk and a Pete Smith special in which patrons powers of observation are tested. COMING: “THE LIGHT THAT FAILED” (Ronald Colman), “YOUNG TOM EDISON” (Mickey Rooney), BROADWAY MELODY” (Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire), and “BALALAIKA” (Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey in the most brilliant musical of the year presented at the Regent Theatre). STATE THEATRE. TONIGHT (Friday): “THE STARS ' LOOK DOWN,” by A. J. Cronin, the author of “The Citadel” writes another brilliant masterpiece. . . . No other man knows so much, or could write so clearly of the lives, hopes, ambitions, loves, and hates of England's most loyal people! The stars of this outstanding British film are Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood. TUESDAY NEXT (October 1): Gene Autry and Jane Withers together for the first time in an actionful western drama, “SHOOTING HIGH.” Also on the same programme are Sonja Henie and Ray Milland in “EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT,” the most delightful skating musicale the popular stars have appeared in. FRIDAY NEXT (October 4): Edward Small presents Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne and Louis Hayward in “MY SON, MY SON!” The amazing drama of a father and his son, caught in the surge of a love even greater than their love for each other . . . their love for this glamorous woman, whose beauty stood between them like a sword. Here is an entertainment you could never forget. FRIDAY (October 11): The hilarious S 6 Thorne ‘(Topper) Smith novel, “TURNABOUT,” with Carole Landis. Adolphe Menjou, and John Hubbard. It’s so daring that even the stork blushed.