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ENTERTAINMENTS

Saturday,

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Documentary

Nursing Profession

Tribute To

FILMS by

"FIRST

NIGHT"

"Vigil in the Night"

. Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne

THIS is a sincere adaptation of Dr. A. J. Cronin's novel which deals with the nursing side of the metlical pro- fession as it affects two sisters.

One of the sisters pays for earlier negligence with her life whilst the other sister achieves her ambition only through sacrifice and suffering.

The sensitive direction,and natural treatment of this noble theme becomes an impressive and absorbing documentary tribute to the nursing profession

The authenticity of approach and with a young girl, who eventually the stark simplicity of the handling becomes his accompanist. They no of the film, allled with perfect de-away together and the cattera swings tal and convincing atmosphere; re- away from Sweden, where the vio- to the south of France Etilt In an absorbing sequence, of Binist lives,

and the sunshine of escape and hap- dramatic incidents.

piness.

This fim is one of the finest on the subject seen to date.

Carole Lombard plays the role of Anuc Lee, one of the sisters, with the perfection we have corne to ex pect from her. She is extremely well supported by Anne Shirley as the other sister.

Brian Aherne brings dignity and understanding to the comparatively smil role of Dr. Prescoll. Other inembers of the cast, particularly the matron, acquit themselves with equal succens.

FILM: "Wings of the Navy" STARS: George Brent, Olivia de

Havilland, VERDICT: Pageantry of the skies.}

THIS film contains breath- taking thrills and aerial stunts which have seldom been equalled on the screen.

It is a panorama of aerial necom- plishment, of machines massed in formation flights, bombers zooming warfare. across the sky in mimic

their glant seaplanes making for objective a dozen at a time, and tiny

and

tests machines engaging in which provide the thrill supreme.

The story deals simply with family pride in name, a tradition which must be lived up to whatever, the

or

But there is no rent escape happiness for them; the girl has a conscience as well as brains, and the man cannot forgel his home. She fades gracefully mat of his life and the film, and the violinist's re- concillation with his wife is made ensier by a motor aceldent in which their younger child is injured,

Leslie Howard gives the violinist his own charm and sensibility, and

WHAT'S ON

TO-DAY QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA; "Vigil in the Night"

MAJESTIC: "The Fishllor 69th." KING'S: "Vings of the Navy" 'ORIENTAL:. “Intemezzo"

TO-MORROW

KING'S: "Wings of the Navy" ORIENTAL: "U-Boat 29" MAJESTIC: "The Fighting G9th." QUEEN'S AND ALHAMBRA: "Iloneymoon in Ball"

for 1940.

Caro

Lombard Plays

A Serious Role.

produce as one of its principal efforts "Diamond" Jim," "Sutter's Gold," "Bachelor's Affairs," "The Road Back" and "The Road to Reno,"""

MERLE

OBERON will linve

Research work. Anished recently with the dispatch to America of photographs of documents and anti- ques going back to 1859, and carry- ing the Reuter story through to the George Brent as her co-star in "The coverage of the present war. A Constant Nymph," which will go be- cable received by Max Milder states fore the cameras as soon as "TH

finished. In that the role of Baron Jullus de We Meet Again" is Reuter, who founded the firm, will" We Meet Again" the two have the parts originally played by Kuy be taken by Edward G. Robinson.

The British Museum also aided in Francks and William Powell in "One the reconstruction work, and every Way Passage." detail of the production will be as accurate as the records of the past and the Reuter's men of to-day can present them. The picture is tentn- ively ltled "This Man Reuler."

June 15, 1940.

RADIO

ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.e.) and 31.49. motres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Mozart Jupiter" Symphony No. 41 in C Major

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 846 ke's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.10 p.m. and B-12 midnight on 9.02 m.c's. per second...

Í. K. T.

12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter- cession.

12,30 Charlie Kuns at the Plane. 12.43 Selections from C. B. Coch- ran's RevucS.

1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.

1.03 Danco Blusio by Harry Hoy and Els Orchestra.

1.30

"Reuter and Rugby: Press, and Announce-

Weather Forecast

ments.

1.45 A Variety Programme. 2.15 Close Down!

0.00 Excerpts from Wagner's "The Valkyries."

6.25 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.

0.27 Mozart-Symphony No. 41 In

C Major "Jupiler."

The B. B, C. Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult,

6.55 Compositions of Rachmaninoff. 7.13 The Boston Symphony Or chestra.

"Mefisto" Waltz No. 1 (Linzt), Rosemunde-Ballet Music. No. 2, Op. 28 (Schubert).

7.30 London Relay-The News, 0.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03

A Variety Programme,

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0.00 London Relay London Lor'. THE NEW SENSATIONAL SINGER

D.15 London Relay-News Sum-

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9.30 Musical Comedy-"Yes Ma- | OSCAR NATZKE. THE NEW ZEALAND BASS

dam?"

Binnie Hale, Bobby Howes and

Company with

Theatre

Orchestra

Joseph Tunbridge.

10.05' Danco Muale,

("The second Chaliapine! Vido Press)

the

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10.45 Max Mller in the Theatre. Recorded during 'an' Actual Per- formance at the Holborn Empire.

11.05 Dance Musle. 12.00 midnight. Close Down.

To-Morrow's Broadcast

Radio Programme Broadenst by ZBW on a Frequency of 845 Ice's. and on Short Wave from 12.15-2.30 p.m. and 8-10.35 p.m., on 0.52 m.c's. per second.

10.15-11.15 a.m. Relay of Morning Service from the Methodist Church,

12.15 p.m. Band Music. Per Asper Ad Astra-March 12.29 Songs by Malcolm McEachern (Bass) and Muriel Brunskill (Con- tralto).

12.47 Coleridge-Taylor - Four Characteristio Valses.

New Light Symphony Orchestra, JEFFREY LYNN has been cond. by J. Ainslie Murray.

1.0 Local Time Signal and Wenther signed an important part in "All Report. This and Heaven, Too," Warner cost and includes some welcome in-Edna Best acts servibly as the wife.

1.03 Plano Ducis by Rawicz and terpolations of romance and comedy hut it is not they who rescue the film

Bros. picturisation of Rachel Field's Landaner.

The Lit of Lehar-Medley; Waltz with which to leaven the sensation from the commonplace. It is the WARNER BROS. have signed Ed-best-seller, starring Bette Davis and

(Oscar Strauss); and thrill.

But it is the pageantry of the skies personality of Ingrid Bergman, who mund Grainger as an associate pro- Charles Boyer. Arrangements have Dream-Selection

girl Anita.ducer, working under the supervision also been made to borrow Virginia The Great Waltz-Selection.

-1:15 Marek Weber and His Or. which makes the entertainment what plays the part of the

There is strength about Anita, of Hal B. Wallis, associate executive Weldler from M.-G.-M. for the port it is, a spaciously planned vision of vivacity, gaiety, and charm at war in charge of production. Grainger of one of Boyer's daughters. Anatole chestra.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weh- man's mastery of the air which cla- with a certain deep-set sullenness has to his record such pictures as Litvak is directing.

ther Forecast and Announcements. mourn to us on the tense ́excliement

145 Tchaikowsky-Symphony No. of it all and which surs one's ad which make her, as Ingrid Bergman

5 in E Minor, Op. 64. miration for a generation which can plays her, an exciting figure. take an engine and canvas and steel tubes into the air and do such amaz- ing things with them.

George Brent plays with attractive repose supported by John Payne as his brother. The girl in the case is Olivia de Havilland. Effective work romes

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O'Neill..

from Frank Mellugh, John Victor Jory and

Henry

FILM: "U-Boat 29." STARS: Conrad Veldt, Valerie

Hobson. VERDICT: First Rate and Topical,

Pat

FILM: "The Fiphilng 69th." STARS: James Cagney,

O'Brien. VERDICT: Fighting drama.

THIS drama, larded with much

brusque comedy, focuses on James Cagney as an arrogant and incorrigible young recruit who doesn't give a hoot for the traditions of the Fighting 69th during training, and can't stand up to the hard codes of his own, simple DIRECTOR Michael Powell, soldier's duties. He becomes the dips back into history for a anxious concern of the commanding story that is as topical as. theomcer, "Wild Dill" Donovan (George

and Father Duffy Brent)

(Pat front page of a newspaper. The O'Brien) the regimental chaplain, film is "U-Boat 29."

through whose spiritual example he The Orkneys provide the setting. tually conquers his cowardice and and 1917 the time. The hero is makes the supreme sacrifice. "German," "a" U-boat commander, who

Cagney plays the character becomes for a brief spell a spy, help-Private Jerry Plunkelt with unwaver- ing to engineer a U-boat attack which ing spirit, feeling and conviction. Pat wil cripple the British Fleet. O'Brien is splendid in the priestly

of

A young schoolteacher-chaming, role. George Brent ably portrays the despite her whiplash tongue and n commanding officer.

British officer are, seemingly, his oc-

complices in a plot that is top good

to be spoiled by telling in advance.

It is inevitable that "U-Boat 29"

Bri-

TWO important literary pro- should bring audiences right upperties, one of them n against the realities of the present, tish best seller, have just been Last year it would have been accepted acquired by Twentieth Century- as just a first-rate thriller. For it Fox. The unpublished memoirs certainly is first-rate,

-of-Andro-Maginet-creator of The sweeping Scottish sca

makes scape

Atting back- ground for melodrama that goes

the start," with a swing from matching, suspense with exelte- ment, and dropping shrewilly into humour once in a while to whet the appetite for more of the grim stuff,

the famous line of French fortifica- tlons have been bought for filming, and also the Richard Llewellyn novel

How Green Was My Volley."

The deals were concluded by Mr. Robert Low, head of the European story department for Twentieth Cen- ury-Fox. Scripts are being pre- Conrad Veldt's portrait of the pored and both, subjecla

for early shooting German commander le as impressive scheduled

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Brightest of the other players is

perhaps diny Petrie, as a ship'a en- C. AUBREY SMITH began his gineer, popping up from the subler- forty-eighth year on the stage and rancan depths like one of the seven screen with his selection for a lead-

dwarfs to make repeated complaints ing feature role In "Waterloo

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FILM: "Intermezzo."" STARS: Leslie Howard, Ingrid

Bergman.

VERDICT: Brief Interlude,

THE story is no more than a trifle which has often been told before and, to be fair to it, it

Bridge. The veteran character`nctor plays an English general and noble- Imani, uncle of Robert Taylor, in the picturisation of Robert Sherwood's stage play, starring Vivien Leigh and Taylor. Mervyn LeRoy Is directing the M.-G.-M. film.

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Musle of Early Italian Com-

7.30 London Relay-The News, 8.0 Local Time Signal, Wenther Report and Announcements.

6.03 Massenet-"Lo Cid" Music.

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Eugene Goossens,

8.18 Two Songs by Georges Thill | (Tenor).

Serenade Toscane (Faure and Bus- sine); Clair De Lune (Faure and Verlaine).

with Plane, accomp. by

Maurice Faure,

8.25 Liszt-Concerto No. 1 In E tat REASO Flat

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Mischa Levitzki (Piano) and the Landon Symphony Orchestra con- ducted by Sir Landon Ronald.

8.45 Studio The second of weekly series of Book Reviews,

8.57 Miza Korjus (Soprano) and The Philharmonie-Symphony Orches- tra of New York.

La Danza (Rossini)....Milica Kor→ jus (Soprano) with Orchestra and Chorus; Overture "Semirninide" (Russini)... Phillburmvate-Symphony Orchestra of New York end. by Arture Tosconint

9.15 London Relay-News Sun- рагу.

9.30 Magazine Feature Programme, No. G.

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10.02 Organ Music. Organ Concerto

B Flat (Handel); Movement in D from Handel's "Water Music" Sulte....Dr. E. Bullock playing on the Organ of Westminster Abbey.

Evening

10.35 Studio-Sunday Epilogue.

10.33 Close down.

ACCIDENT IN GARAGE

Five Men Fall into Well At Gilman's

A serious accident occurred about 8.15 p.m. Inst right when five work- | men, fell into a well under construc- tion at Gilman's Showrooms, Nathan Road

The men were sitting on a'plank over the well, when it gave way and hurled them down a 20-foot drop.

There was little waler, at the bot- tom-and-the-man-sustained “severo Injuries. They were taken to the Kowloon Hospital where their con- dition is reported serious ar

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Sanctuary of the heart. Ol man river.

Song of the Volga boatmen, The song of Hybrias the Cretan. Hear me, ye winds and waves.

O isis and Osiris. "Mogle Flute". La Salumnia. "Barber of Seville",

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