The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-21
'CUNCA DEN' TO
 PLAY AT STRAND
Great Galaxy of Stars in Picture; ''King KOng''
 Second Feature

Strands current screen offering of ''Ten Gentlemen from West Point" co-starring George Mont gomery, Maureen O'Hara and John Sutton, and Tt Happened in Flat bush" co-starring Lloyd Nolan and Carole Landis, the second smash laugh riot on the same program, will end tonight after a successful three day run.
 Starting tomorrow for four days, the Strand will present that mem orable screen spectacle, "Gunga Din". High adventure in the Brit ish Army campaigning on the northwestern frontier of India half century ago, colorful romance, rowdy fun, heroism and sacrifice are compounded in the screen pro- duction of Rudyard Kipling's famous ballad of "Gunga Din". Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fair banks, Jr., and Joan Fontaine, win ner of the 1941 Motion Picture Acad- emy Award, share the honors in this mammoth production which employs as well, high and notable sup porting cast, and which boasts Of elaborate scenes. breathtaking in their grandeur. The male stars are cast as trio of sergeants in the Brit ish army, close friends despite their surface quarrels. Grant is a rest less treasure seeker, hoping some day to find a Rajah's hoard that will make him wealthy; McLaglen is the typical two-fisted British NCO, ready for a fight or frolic, and Fairbanks is gentleman ranker who plans to marry Joan Fontaine, as soon as his enlistment expires. The trio run afoul of a band of thugs, the famous religious stranglers of India, and just man. age to escape. Large bodies of troops march out, while the same trio of sergeants, with much larger force, are assigned to keep the vital telegraph line open. One of the party is Gunga Din, native water carrier who is aware of Grants treasure hunting proclivities. Din and Grant searching for a rum ored temple with golden tower, discover it to be the thugs secret headquarters. and are captured. Din escapes, brings McLaglen and Fair banks to the rescue, but all Of them are trapped and held prisoner by the enraged natives The desperate effort of the little group to save a rescue party looking for them, their capture by the thugs, and Gunga Din's heroic sacrifice, comprise the thrilling climax of the film.
 King Kong" with Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Ca- bot, is the second thrill packed feat ure on this same program. In sub stance, King Kong" is the thrilling ly imaginative story of a prehis- toric ape taken captive and brought to New York, where it throws the metropolis in a panic and creates tremendous devastation. Fay Wray plays the girl whose frail, golden beauty so entrances the great beast that his heart from the first time in it's seven million years of existence, knows no emotion ot tenderness. Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot portray two advent urers seeking to get motion pic ture of a legendary ape and to make drama out of his reactions to the beauty of a woman.
 The second giant bathing beauty contest will take place next We'd nesday night, August 28, on the stage of the Strand theater. Here indeed, is grand opportunity to win handsome prize and become eli gible for the grand prize, a beauti- full $100 diamond ring plus the title of Miss Waterbury of 1942. Regis tration blanks may be obtained and left at the Strand theater or the Mattatuck Music Store where the