ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 February 1937, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. The music of “Show Boat” composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein IL, has gained suteh popularity that all the original numbers will be retained in the screen version which is now attracting crowded audiences at the Opera House. Three new songs: were written for the picture. The hit numbers of the play include “Make Believe” and “Why Do I Love You?’ duets rendered by Irene Dunne and Allan Jones. Helen Morgan does two numbers that she has made famous “Bill” and “Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man.” Other songs which will be heard are “Old Fashioned Wife.” “Cotton Blossom,” “After the Ball.” and “Goodbye, My Lady Love.” Paul Robe Son, the world renowned baritone, sings “Old Man River,” and a new offering, “Ah Still Suits Me.” A new duet number, “I Have the Room Above Her,” is presented’by Irene Dunne and Allan Jones. Miss Dunne also has a sprightly tune called “Gallivantin’ Around.” One of the special features of the production is a chorus of 200 voices that weave a spell with unusual rhythmic tone patterns. The cast of 3,500 people includes, besides those already named, Charles Winninger, Helen Westley, Sammy Wh'ite, Queenie Smith, Sunnie O’Dea, Donald Cook, Francis X. Mahoney, Charles Middleton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Arthur Hohl, and Flora Finch.

REGENT THEATRE. That curious mixture of contradictions, .childish pranks, deep-rooted emotions and annate honesty which goes to make up ;the average boy, has been brought to the screen of the Regent Theatre in “Too Many Parents,” to be Shown to-night. It tells of four boys, typical of hundreds of thousands the country over, who have been deprived of the .most precious birthright pf all children —the love and guidance, the tender affection and instruction of their parents. “THE WITNESS CHAIR.”

Power of circumstantial evidence to involve the guiltless is the basis for tense emotional drama in “The Witness Chair,” the second feature to be shown. Ann Harding stars as a woman who must watch the man she loves (Walter Abel) tried' for murder charges she herself should face. Douglas Dumbrille, Francis Sage, Moroni Olsen and Margaret Hamilton also appear.

“A STAR FELL FROM HEAVEN.”

“A Star Fell From Heaven,” which will start on Thursday at the Regent Theatre has excellent singing talents, good numbers, pretty ballets and a good romantic comedy theme. The major attraction is, of course, Joseph Schmidt, a diminutive but powerful-voiced -tenor, who has a reputation on the Continent. It is one of the brightest efforts yet by a British studio.

“YELLOW DUST.” “Yellow Duist” is stark drama of the epochal gold rush, in which live again fighting, lawless, greed-frenzied men. This feature will commence at the Regent Theatre on Thursday.