ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21584, 21 November 1941, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES CIVIC THEATRE Raff’d on the successful musical comedy l of the same name, Anna Neagle’s new starring- vehicle, ••Sunny,” recounts the romance of an alluring- dancer with a handsome young man of society. The story is laid against the colourful setting of a New urieans to today gay with Mardi Gras ceiemations. me i>icture stresses the romantic nut to an unusual degree, with John Carroll as the hero and Ray Holger, Edward Everett Horton and the Hartmans in other featured roles. Miss .neagle has the title part of a dancer and equestrienne who Is the hrignt star of a little carnival. Caught up in the whirl and gaiety or a Mardi Gras crowd, she meets a handsome young Louisianian, Larry Warren, and it is a case or lovu at first sight. Many lilting songs arc included in the film, including “Who?” •“Sunny” and ‘•Two Little Bluebirds.” THEATRE ROYAL Heralded as something new and startling in the field of screen shockers, “Manmade Monster,” tells what happens when a scientific genius, attempting to prove a theory that human life can be motivated and controlled by electricity, transforms a normal human being into a super-carged monster. Lionel Atwill, specialist in sinster portrayals, essays the rule of the scientist. Lon Chaney Jnr, in a characterisation reminiscent of those of his famous rather, portrays the monster. Anne Nagel, I-'rank Albertson and Samuel S. Hinds have other major roles. •’The Rig Guy,” an entertaining comedydrama featuring Victor McLaghen and Jackie Cooper, and a chapter of the new serial. “Riders of Leath Valley,” are also screened. STATE THEATRE Thrills, fun, dances, song, romance—all that and more are packed into “Golden Hoofs,” Jane Withers’ starring film. As the picture opens Jane, as a 15-year-old trainer of trotting horses on the Yankee Stock Farms, learns that the new owner of the Tarm, Charles (Buddy) Rogers, plans to get rid of all the prize trotters to make room for his racing stock. But when Rogers does show up at the farm, he turns out to be such a likeable and handsome fellow that Jane falls head-over-heels in love with bim. A gay highlight or the film is the "Box Social” sequence which provides Jane a chance to sing a delightful new song hit, “Consider Yourself in Love,” and do a clever dance routine with Buddy pepper, a talented young newcomer. “Melody and Moonlight” i- a sparkling musical comedy romance, with Johnny Downs and Mary Lee. REGENT THEATRE Embodying all the Irresistible humour or the British people, and in particular the British Navy. “Sailors Three,” is a riotous production. The opening- scene takes place in a Smith American dance Hall and from their shifts rapidly to a Nazi pocket battleship, the Ludend'irf, and the comedy aii,i thrills that blend as a trio or do-ur-die British sailors capture the enemy vessel provide keen entertainment. Tommy Trliitler, well-known stake comedian, who has delighted thousands with his infectious cockney humour, makes his screen debut as leader of Hie irresponsible trio. The three sailors celebrate their arrival in the .south American port a little too well, and after a romantic interlude in which two or them fall in love with the third’s sister find themselves by a queer turn of events on board a .Nazi warship, terror of the high seas. Then the fun and excitement begin. ROXY THEATRE “Escape,” featuring Norma Sheara, Conrad Veldt, and Robert Taylor, and “The Great Plane Robbery” will be screened toda'‘Escape” is a story that combines great suspense with characterisations that should live In film history. Miss Shearer reaches new heights as the Guinness von Treck holding desperately to illusions that she knows arc raise. Robert layer emerges as a still more convincing performer as the young American artist, Mark Preysing, desperately seeking to rescue his mother, ex-actress Emmy Ritter, from execution in a concentration camp. In this escape the Countess finds hers err

involved. One of the most d.irlntr criminal arracks in the terror-packed annal? or the an* ramifies the ba.-o- lor d-iiuinbu - ' Jack Hull thriller, ••The (in-at j-jaue dtoJabery.’’