COMING ATTRACTIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1941, Page 9

COMING ATTRACTIONS

REGENT THEATRE. I FRIDAY. Saturday. Monday: -THE : ROARING TWENTIES." Warner! Bros, great story by the famous novelist. Mark Hollinger. Featuring James Cagney. Priscilla Lane. Jef-i frey Lynn. Humphrey Bogart, Frank i .McHugh and a great cast, it tells a pulse-pounding story of the era following prohibition in America and ■ the efforts of the G-Men to stamp. out the liquor racket which lollow-! cd. Based on actual facts it is one : of the most gripping productions to < grace the screen. Featurettes include i

the latest Cinesound Nows, a thrilling fishing item, an all-colour cartoon and a story of a fantastic but true adventure.

TUESDAY, Wednesday. Thursday; ‘•WE ARE NOT AL(SNE." the great story from the pen of James Hilton, author of “Goodbye Mr Ciiips" and “Lost Horizon." Featuring the great Paul Muni, with Jane Bryan, Flora Robson and a grand cast, it is a production which will live in memory of all. Al! the humanity and genius of "Mr Chips" are present in this even greater story by the same author, and the acting is equally fine. Superb featureties complete an exceptional programme. COMMENCING FRIDAY. January 17, -the epic of all that stands for British valour in the present weighty struggle, “CONVOY," a thrill tor every British heart, and a lasting tribute to the great merchant service and the Navy that guards them. Now in its fourth week at the Regent Theatre, Wellington. STATE THEATRE. TONIGHT i Friday i. Saturday and Monday: Glamorous Zorina and handsome Richard Greene make on outstanding couple in "I WAS AN ADVENTURESS." the 20lh CenturyFox romantic drama, now at the State Theatre, in which Zorina stars by courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn, to whom she is under contract. The film is set against a lavish panorama of the smart European resorts and casts 1 Zorina as a heartless enchantress who ensnares wealthy men with her beauty while her confederates, played by Erich Von Stroheim and Peter Lorre, fleece them of fabulous sums of money. The supporting programme includes a number of interesting subjects, the outstanding item being the latest March of Timo, "The United States Navy."

NEXT MID-WEEK: Two action specials. Lee Tracy in "MILLIONZiIRES IN PRISON" and George O’Brien in "TRIPLE JUSTICE." FRIDAY NEXT (January 17c For a season of one week, the thrill spectacle you'll never forget Walter Wanger presents Alfred Hitchcocit’r "FOREIGN • CORRESPONDENT, starring Joel McCrea. Ltirainc Day, Herbert Marshall and George Sanders. Never equalled on the screen,’ J leroism —thrills —mighty adventure in this suspense-packed drama . truly Alfred Hitchcock’s Hhrertur of “Rebcccit") greatest screen achievement, COMING SOON TO THE ST.-.TE. -THE GREAT DICTATOR" <Ch.iHk Chaplin), "THE THIEF OF BAGDAD” <m techniealoui'L "NO. NO. • NANETTE” (Anna Ncaglei. CAPTAIN CAUTION.” and THE BLIT. BIRD" COSY THEATRE. FRIDAY. Saturday, M.-no.-} ’WOLF CALL.' Jack London'- “itA’- ' ■•u-ry of the Alaskan lands. fealmmg .. noble dog and its here for st. :r. - tor John Carroll anti Movtta . in the leading rules and have a gn ;■ rupportuSf’ cast Thu scinan in th: grand production is prirticuLuly flue The fitwoci-iW THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X > b; 1liant action-;.lied >iwy < ' .. t.a t killer who struck only . ‘ mght TUESDAY. Wcdn< day 'i h-.u ' • TROUBLE BREWING :):<• : ■ ' tible George F<,rmby n > <-f a. grente’ rtim’-e- ■■■ Furmby at w<>r': >■-. .ra’.-.a t Vat; have wiar ds-. i f :w ' : for all. The ■ga?:g BUI.i RTS.' story i-i a w.u* * ‘Jv* <• • . Lov.l- N a ■ ’• R ‘ !< tire featured. Cheery ru My word, » i have got the late t thing tvpite-r"’ MnmiKcr "She cermmly ; . that She is the la:.t one to irrive every mornini:"