ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 June 1937, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. Those merry madcaps, the Marx Brothers—Groucho, Chico and Harpo —-appear in their latest comedy, “A Night At the Opera,” to be shown tonight at the. Opera House. It is a picture that is hot only tops for the screamingly funny comedy of the Marx Brothers, but built around an intriguffig plot, an interesting story and brilliant singing by two Broadway stage favourites, Kitty Carlisle, and Allah Jones. Groucho, Chico and Harpo go into the grand opera business in Italy, dash across the Atlantic and stage an opera in New York that has the city on its ear. Original comedy, sparkling dialogue, delightful opera and, of course, the Marx Brothers, vie in the most delightful fun that has come to the screen for some time. Supporting the Marxes in addition to Jones and Miss Carlisle, who are perfectly cast as the young lovers, are Walter King, who also has a fine singing role, Siegfried Rumann, Maragret Dumont, Edward Keane and Robert Emmet O’Connor.

“DIMPLES.” Hailed as the grandest story of her career, “Dimples” brings Shirley t Temple to the Opera House on Friday in the most brilliant triumph in her succession of hits. Shirley plays a little street minstrel in the production, and' the role permits her to sing new songs and do dazzling new dance steps that surpass even her past accomplishments. Frank Morgan heads the cast supporting Shirley, also including Helen Westley, Robert Kent, Astrid Allwyn, Delma Byron, the Hall Johnson Choir, and the inimitable Stepin Fetchit. REGENT THEATRE. Charlie Ruggles is the husband of Mary Boland for the eleventh time in “Wives Never Know,” the domestic comedy opening Tuesday at the Regent Theatre. Ruggles forsook the wholesale drug business thirty years ago to become an actor, and has played comedy roles on stage and screen ever since.

“O’RILEY’S LUCK.” A breezy and delightful story of young love, charged with all the glamour and action of a bigytime college football game, will charm and thrill the audience at the Regent Theatre to-morrow night when “O’feley’s Luck,” with William Frawley, Eleanor Whitney, Tom Brown, Larry Crabbe, Benny Baker, Terry Ray and Priscilla Lawson, will be shown. •THE ROAD TO GLORY.” Joel Sayre and William Faulkner, authors of several “best sellers,’’ collaborated on the screen play of “The Road to Glory,” coming to the Regent Theatre with Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore in the starring roles, on Thursday.

HOPALONG CASSIDY.” A one-man battle to bring law and order to a roaring, lawless western mining town is the theme of the latest Clarence E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy story to come to the screen.’’ “Hopalong Cassidy Returns.” The picture, with William Boyd as Hopalong, opens Saturday at the Regent Theatre, together with “Go West Young Man,” starring May West in her latest and best. At Popeye Club matinee, Hopalong Cassidy will be serened with Popeye, Betty Boop and cotqedles, '