ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20909, 14 September 1939, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

CURRENT PROGRAMMES ROXY THEATRE Magnificent in its pageantry, with beauty of brilliant costume and setting, splendidly cast with such film names as Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut, Gladys George, and scores of others, "Marie Antoinette” is a spectacular and very interesting production. "A Nation is Built” is an intensely interesting picturisation of w r hat Australia has done in all fields of endeavour. "MEN WITH WINGS” "Men With Wings,” a thrilling aviation story in technicolour, and "Three Blind Mice,” featuring Loretta Young and Joel McCrea, will be screened to-morrow. ■ 3I CIVIC THEATRE "Old Iron” gives the popular Tom Wall’s great opportunities in a film which is essentially different from the farces in which he made his name. Although the comedy clement still prevails, Ben Travers has been able to endow the story with a realism that makes it a much more momentous work than the former Aldwych production. "TAILS PIN” A long-neglected phase of aviation, the part which women play in this dangerous sport, is brought to the screen in "Tailspin,” the thrilling drama which will be screened tomorrow. It is -a story of tragedy, but it is also an epic of courage and determination shown by a band of women who live precarious lives. OTidr - REGENT THEATRE "This Man is News” deals with a reporter who achieves notoriety as the result of a murder story he sends in to his paper before the actual crime is committed. As may be imagined, this produces uncomfortable consequences for him; but, fortunately, he is able to prove an alibi. In the end he is instrumental in bringing the criminals to justice. ’ n H U CKL DB ERRY IFINN ’ ’ The film version of one of the world’s classics in the literature of boy stories, Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry 'Finn,” to be screened on Saturday, will charm audiences by its fidelity to the author’s delineation of boy character and the consequent thrill and comedy of the hero’s adventures on the old Mississippi. In the title role Mickey Rooney fulfills everybody’s conception of the ragamuffin. STATE THEATRE "Okay For Sound” combines music, romance and humour very entertainingly. The Crazy Gang is composed of three of London’s most celebrated humour duos —Nervo and Knox, Flanagan and Allen and Naughton and 'Gold. In "Okay For Sound” they run through a most hilarious set of situations, in which they are supported by topnotch musical and comic artists including Enid Stamp Taylor, Fred Duprez, the Sherman Fisher Girls, Patricia Bowman, Louis Levy’s Orchestra, Peter Dawson and Lucienne and Ashour. “Super Sleuth” is something new in murder mysteries, with Jack Oakie as , an amateur detective. The manner L in which the exciting story is ‘unfolded holds the close interest of the audience. THEATRE ROYAL Pictures will not be screened to- _ night owing to the theatre being other- ■ wise engaged. John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, E. E. Clive, Elizabeth Patterson and Reginald Denny return to the screen in the thrilling new mystery yarn, "Bulldog Drummond’s Secret Police,” to be screened to-morrow. Set in an eerie old castle, in which Howard and Miss Angel have planned to be married, the story tells of mysterious treasure buried in the vaults beneath, and the struggle that ensues when a desperate killer arrives on the scene to get it.