ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1937, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. “Public Enemy's Wife,” a new and unique thriller, will be featured tonight at the Opera House. The story has some of the biggest punches ever shown in this.jtype of picture. A romance between an. ace G-Man and the public enemy’s wife forms a very strong part of the plot. picture is enacted by an exceptionally brilliant cast which includes Pat O’Brien and Margaret Lindsay as lovers. O’Brien is the ace G-Man and Miss Lindsay is in the title role; Robert Armstrong, another G-Man; Cesar Romero, the arch-villain and murderous head of a band of desperate crooks; Dick Foran, rich play-boy; Joseph King, Richard Purcell, Addison Richards, and others. Miss Lindsay is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, having married 1 a handsome crook without knowing his background. The husband, Cesar Romero, has let her take the “rap” with him for the crime, because he is afraid she will divorce him and marry again. When she leaves prison before he does, he threatens to kill any man

who comes between them. He escapes from prison and heads for the wedding ceremony when he learns of it, intending to carry out his threat. But ace G-Man O’Brien is on the watch. A rich play-boy, whom the girl is to marry, proves yellow. O’Brien goes through With the ceremony, hoping to trap the killer. Then ho begins to fall in love with the girl. And it is then the picture enters a series of smashing episodes, winding up in an unusual climax in which the girl and G-Man are carried aboard a specially chartered ship by the crooks.

“DIMPLES.” Singing, dancing, dimples flashingeven when tears are clinging to her lashes, Shirley Temple comes on Friday to the Opera House in her new triumph, “Dimples;? the grandest story Shirley Temple has ever had and the outstanding hit in her parade of success. As a little minstrel, harmonising with street singers, playing every role in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’’ single-handed, starring in a minstrel show and mothering and caring for her irrepressible and' incorrigible guardian, Frank Morgan, Shirley shares with you her love and laughter, tears and thrills, trials and triumphs. In addition to Frank Morgan, ‘.Shirley’s supporting east includes Helen Westley, Robert Kent, Astrid Allwyn, Delma Byron, the Hall, Johnson Choir, and the inimitable. Stepin Fetchit. “Dimples” will be screened for a season of four nights I and four matinees. REGENT THEATRE. i | The final screening of the double, feature programme at the Regent Theatre will be given to-night. Maryj Boland and Charles Ruggles in “Wives | Never Know,” and Larry Crabbe and Tom Brown in “O’Riley’s Luck," are two features of high standard and good clever comedy.

“THE ROAD TO GLORY." A dramatic star-shell is promised in “The Road to Glory,” coming on Thursday to the Regent Theatre. Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore are starred, with June Lang. The film tells a gripping story of love painted on a canvas as great and encompassing as the war itself. Baxter is seen as the warweary commander of a valorous regiment. Monique, a lovely French nurse, provides him with his only interest. Fredric March, Baxter’s chief

aid, falls in love with Monique too, unaware that Baxter cares deeply. The triangle intensifies when Baxter discovers his father, Lionel Barrymore, is a private in the regiment. Glowing with pride over the soldier’s heroism, Baxter’s sense of duty compels him to order Barrymore to the rear, for if, one man should err in duty, the company might be endangered. Barrymore is not so easily discouraged. His desire to serve his flag under his son, prompts him to bribe Gregory Ratoff to “lose” the order. Thus, when the regiment moves towards the front, Barrymore is in the ranks. What glory does to the hearts of men and love to the

hearts of women, is revealed as the film moves swiftly, strongly, on to its crowning climax.

“GO WEST YOUNG MAN.” One of the sequences in Mae West’s latest comedy, “Go West Young Man,” which comes to the Regent Theatre on Saturday, calls for a wholesale descent upon a peaceful farmhouse by the entire countryside when word goes up that a famous movie actress is stopping there.

“HOPALONG CASSIDY.” A six-gun peacemaker matches wits with a woman and trades gunfire with some of the outlaws of the Old West, to rid a community of the bad men, in the high-speed adventure picture which opens on Saturday at the Regent Theatre. “Hopalong Cassidy Returns” is an adaptation of a story by Clarence E. Mulford, author of the “Hopalong” series. BLACKBALL TENNIS BALL.

After weeks of preparation, the Blackball Tennis Club are ready to present their first annual ball on Friday night. It will be held in the spacious Miners’ Hall, the floor of which has been undergoing weeks of treatment, under the supervision of Mr Taff Davies. The decoration committee have been working keenly and promise -to set a very attractive and gay background to the pretty frocks, with decorations of greenery and flowers. The supper arrangements are in capable hands, and will live up to the past high standard set in Blackball. The popular Marina Dance Band will supply the music, while the famous “Two Tuis” will provide vocal and' instrumental interludes. Everything points to a new high standard being set for such a function in Blackball.

BARNYARD DANCE. 1 Grand Barnyard Dance, will be (held in the Blaketown Hall. Monday night. Those who were at the last Barnyard Dance will be there again, as it was one of the best nights held in Blaketown. Please come along in fancy dress and make the night one big hit. Good prizes for the best fancy dress. Marley’s full orchestra. Good supper. Dancing 8.30 sharp.