ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21374, 19 March 1941, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES STATE THEATRE "Thanks for Everything” keeps an audience in hilarious mood. It deals with a nation-wide contest to pick Mister Average Man and the subsequent exploitation of this hapless fellow as a human barometer who can foretell the whole country’s reaction to everything from a brand of cigarettes to the next world war. The cast includes Adolphe Menjou, Arleen Whelan, Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Binnie Barnes and Tony Martin. When a pair of harum-scarum American newsreel cameramen get mixed up in an Arabian revolt, things begin to happen. That’s exactly the situation in “Chasing Danger,” the exciting comedy featuring Preston Foster, Lynn Bari and Wally Vernon. REGENT THEATRE "Golden Boy,” adapted from Clifford Odets’ stage play, seen in Hamilton recently, is the story of a young man raised in the traditions of great music, taught mastery of the violin and inspired to become a great artist who turns to the prize-ring because of his desire for the good things of life. The him has a different ending from that in the play. William Holden has the title role. "40,000 HORSEMEN” One of the most heroic chapters in Australia's war achievements in 1914-18 is relived in “ Forty Thousand Horsemen,” which will be screened on Friday. It is the story of the operations of the Australian Light Horse Brigade in desert warfare. The dash and stark courage of these "mad bushmen” at El Arisn, Gaza and Beersheba are reproduced with remarkable fidelity.