ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1936, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. Miss Davis and Franchot Tone head the cast in “Dangerous,” a dynamic drama of the fall and rise of a brilliant and beautiful actress, which is now at the Opera House. Others in the cast include Margaret Lindsay, John Eldredge, Alison Skipworth. Dick Foian and Walter Walker. WEREWOLF OF LONDON.” Warner Oland, Henry Hull and Valerie Hobson are co-starred in “Werewolf of London,’’ which comes to the Opera House on Monday and Tuesday. Based on the legend of the werewolf, this picture aims at nothing except entertainment of the thrilling, chilling type that pleases audiences the world over. It is a story of a cultured English gentleman who, in his hobby of securing strange flowers from the far corners of the earth, meets with a fabled werewolf in Tibet. The werewolf bites him in the arm, and then he knows, according to the fable, he is doomed to turn into a wolf each month during the full of the moon. The only thing that can prevent this is a plant called the “wolf flower.” Henry Hull, in the role of this scientist, finds the wolf flower, and brings specimens to England. But then comes the task of keeping the flowers alive. They bloom only in the light of the moon, so he constructs a laboratory in which he creates artificial moonlight. Thieves, however, steal his precious blossoms, and he is left to the fate of becoming a wolf Frantically he watches the hair grow on his hands and face. He becomes a wolf and runs the darkened streets of London bringing death to the innocent, and suffering to himself, for the next morning when he awakes he is a man again, but knows what he has done during the dark hours of the night. Also in the cast arc Lester* Matthews, Spring Byington, Clark Williams, Charlotte Granville, Lawrence Grant, Zeffifej Tilbury, Ethel Griffies and J. M. Kerrigan.

REGENT THEATRE. The Regent Theatre is currently host to one of the brightest, happiest and most delightful photoplays the screen has presented in months, “Captain January,” in which Shirley Temple returns as a tiny sea-waif who steers straight into one’s heart. “Captain January” is the story of a little girl and a. grizzled old lighthousekeeper, who light for happiness and find' it after harrowing adventures. The villain in the piece is Sara Haden, a vixenish truant officer. She bends her efforts toward separating Shirley and her protector, Guy Kibbee. Plot follows counterplot until Kibbee flees out to sea with Shirley, and the picture.reaches its happy conclusion when the “old meanie” is thwarted and Shirley, and Kibbee are happily rejoined. Most adorable of the tinkling new tunes is “The Right Somebody to Love,’’ 'Shirley’s dancing partner, is limber-legged Buddy Ebsen, who performs fascinating new steps with the starlet when he isn’t busy falling in love with June Lang. Slim Summerville and Jane Darwell are outstanding in comedy characterisations. - . SCHAEF’S DANCE. Yesterday was Friday, the 13th, and considered a bad day to start anything, but to-day is Saturday, 14th, and Saturday is always a lucky day for. ( dance r lQvers, because Schaef’s popular Saturday night dance is held.

Come along and join the happy throng. The music is by that peppy band, the Royal Star. HOLY TRINITY CHURCH. A social evening for men of the congregation will be held in Trinity Hall on Monday next, at S o’clock. Rt. Rev. W. G. Hilliard, Bishop of Nelson, will be present. An enjoyable evening is assured. ROSE DAY FETE. The Greymouth Plunket Society’s annual appeal, to be held on Friday next, will take the form of “Rose Day,” and will as usual be conducted’ in conjunction with the Society’s annual fete, to be held at the Greymouth Town Hall. Energetic committees have, for some weeks, been carefully planning the appeal, for which, in view of the Society’s present financial position, it is hoped there will be a generous public response. Bargains in ever}' shape and form will be procurable at the Town Hall, and the Fete promises to be one of the most successful in the Society’s history. RECITAL.

On Thursday, November 2G, the pupils of the Adria Bush School of Artistic Elocution will present their Recital in Trinity Hall. There will be stage and spectacular scenic and lighting effects, while the costumes worn in the various plays will provide brightness and colour. The entire programme is composed of plays, comedy sketches, character work, and dances. “A Pageant of the Orient” will be a very colourful finale, while tlie presentation of two fairy tales, “Hansel and Gretel,” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” will delight the hearts of the children. “Alladin’s Lamp” is being included also, and numerous comedy sketches will provide variety. The Play-readers will present two one-act comedies not hitherto seen in Greymouth. On the whole, the programme will be one of the most varied and attractive yet staged here. The proceeds are to go to the Building Fund of Holy Trinity Church, and the object is one which is well worthy of excellent patronage.