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ENTERTAINMENTS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES ROXY THEATRE “They All Come Out,” an exciting story of prison life, and “Marines Fly High” will be screened today. Such ingenious devices as an “automatic gun detector,” an “electric eye” which detects any bit of metal on a prisoner, and the scientific “double door” system are among the escapeproof inventions utilised in modern prisons and shown for the first time in the new drama, “They All Come Out.”

; Telling the story of a Central ' American insurrection led by a daring bandit, and how the U.S."Marines ; help to put a halt to his reign of i terror, “The Marines Fly High” contains every entertainment ingredient for a high-speed action show. Topping the cast are Richard Dix and Chester Morris as two flying lieutenants assigned to help train native volunteers in a Nationalist army, j | STATE THEATRE “Sh! The Octopus,” an amusing comedy featuring Hugh Herbert and Allen Jenkins, and “Alcatraz Island,” a colourful drama, will be screened today. In “Sh! The Octopus,” Hugh Herbert and Allen Jenkins are a detective team —and the world’s very dumbest. In their radio car they hear an alarm that all policemen are called upon 1o seek the capture of an “Octopus of Crime” which has the city in its grip. The trail leads to an abandoned lighthouse three miles offshore. A real octopus turns up. Every once in a while a tentacle snakes out of a crevice in the wall and wraps itself around one or other of the dumb “D.’s.” There are roars of thunder and bursts of lightning. There are screams of women. Occasionally, a corpse is found. “Alcatraz Island” is a grim and fascinating story of men who live outside the law and af the men whose duty it is to apprehend and convict them. REGENT THEATRE “Dad Rudd, M.P.,” is delighting j audiences with its rollicking humour and its homely sentiment, while “Dad’s” peroration at the close is inspiring. The film brings back the inimitable Rudd family, who have won esteem because of their ability to provide entertainment that is lighthearted. wholesome and sincere. Under the paternal wing of the be- j whiskered Bert Bailey there are Mum ! (Connie Martyn), Dave (Fred Me- j Donald), Joe (Ossie Wenban), Sally j (Valerie Scanlan) and his eldest i daughter, Ann, played by Yvonne j East, the Melbourne actress who makes her screen debut in the film. The comedy character of “ Cedric Entwisle,” is again played in uproarious manner by Alec Kellaway, while Grant Taylor is the romantic “ Jim Webster,” who finally unites the two families by marrying “ Dad's” daughter. Grant Taylor’s screen “ father ” is Frank Harvey, stage and j screen veteran, who also wrote the scenario.

THEATRE ROYAL One of the most amazing real life dramas ever filmed—its entertainment qualities all the more gripping by virtue of the fact that such a story is actually happening every day—- “ Damaged Goods” has a message for every mother, every father, every son and daughter of the nation. Based on the famous French play of the same name by Eugene Brieux and adapted for the modern screen by Upton Sinclair. “Damaged Goods” dares to throw the searchlights of truth on one of today’s great menaces to health and happiness. At the same time it cannot be stressed too strongly nor too often that here is no mere health lecture, but a stirring drama of this age—the story of five people whose whole future was threatened by a youthful indiscretion on the part of one, on the eve of his marriage to a second of the group. Some may contend that the picture is somewhat daring, but let us remember that it is based on actual fact, and that the truth sometimes hurts. Science and statistics have proven that ignorance and innocence are the greatest allies of a disease that is making serious inroads into the health and happiness of all nations CIVIC THEATRE “Turnabout” is a very unusual and amusing comedy. Thorne Smith has written several clever and fantastic novels of which many have been transferred to the screen, hut it is 1 doubtful if any previous film has the crisp dialogue and § delightful comedy of “Turnabout.” The story itself concerns the trials that befall a back-biting young married couple who express a mutual desire to change places. An evil little god gets to work, and in the morning they i find the change has actually taken place. Then the real fun starts. A sweet young thing with a throaty, masculine voice is enough to startle j the best of manservants, and a strap- ! ping young man with a girlish so- j prano and just the right ideas about j the texture of stockings and other things can wreck the balance of a , busy advertising firm. The March of Time dealing with ; the Philippines is very interesting. ,

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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 3

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ENTERTAINMENTS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 3

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