ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 October 1937, Page 12

ENTERTAINMENTS

' OPERA HOUSE Surprise follows dramatic surprise, secrets are revealed, and tangled lives set straight when the Country Doctor’s 3,000 grown-up “babies” come, back to share their joys and tears with‘the man who brought them into the world in “Reunion,” to be shown to-night, at. the Opera, House. The picture which stars the world famous Dionne Quins and features Jean Hersholt, Rochelle Hudson. Helen Vinson, Slim Summerville. Robert Kent, John Qualen, Dorothy Peterson any many other players, boasts the year’s most important cast in the most unusual drama. The Quins’ Dr. Luke, played by Jetjn Hersholt, on the verge of retirement, decides to call back from all over the globe three thousand men and women whom he assisted into the world. From all over the country and from many foreign lands they come, the rich and the poor, the high-placed and the lowly. Joining the party is attractive young Dr. Tony Luke, the doctor’s nephew, called to the little Canadian town from Toronto to carry on Dr. Luke's duties. Tony, deeply in love with Mary, Dr. Luke’s nurse, is followed by the wife of his superior in the Toronto Hospital, who refuses to release him. In a scene that combines drama with pathos and humor, Dr. Luke, Tony, Mary, Airs. Sheridan, and the Doctor’s 3,000 grown-up “babies” — including the governor of a State, a fading stage star, a crook just out of jail, and other unforgettable characters —convene for the re-union. Also present are the Quintuplets. The old doctor, under cover of a pompous speech by a Government dignitary, straightens out the problems of Tony, Mrs. Sheridan, Mary, the governor and his unacknowledged little son, the actress and her girlhood flame. Also on the same programme is “March of Time,” No. 4 1937 series.

REGENT THEATRE How public opinion, running high due to an element of mob psychology, may influence testimony of witnesses when a man’s life hangs in balance, is sensationally revealed in the current prison drama “We who are about to die” which will be finally shown at the Regent. Theatre to-night at 8. NEWEST FILM SONG “Write a song for Dick Foran to sing to a little boy as he goes to sleep out. on the prairie.” was the order received by song writers. The order was for the thrilling Western melodrama. “Cherokee Strip,” which comes to the Regent Theatre to-mor-row. It. happened that some nineteen years ago, during the war M. K. Jerome had written “Just, a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight,”—a lullaby which became tremendously popular and sold over three million copies. In “My Little Buckaroo,” the song which he wrote to order, he captured some of the same spirit that endeared the “Baby’s Prayer” to so many listeners. Moreover, “Aly Little Buckaroo” is the kind of song that will be sung long after the majority of the current hits are forgotten. It has that rare quality—which we’ll call appeal—that lifts it above the usual run of songs. Moreover, it’s unique among Western ballads as the only one of them which is suitable for feminine voices. And being a lullaby makes it all the more the kind of song that woman singers find ideal. In the picture, the golden-voiced singing cowboy, Dick Foran, adapts “My Little Buckaroo” as his theme song, after he introduces it in an early scene. “MARRY THE GIRL” “Marry the Girl” which starts a twoday season at the Regent theatre tomorrow afternoon, has a novel setting —the offices of a great newspaper syndicate. This is presided over by Hugh Herbert, who is obviously a nut, and his sister Miss Boland, who is the brains of the outfit. Frank McHugh is general handy man of the organisation. He has three jobs to do as the picture opens—he has to get Hugh O’Connell, the syndicate's best cartoonist. on the water wagon and back to work: he must induce Alan Mowbray, an eccentric writer on psychiatry to sign a new contract; and —most important of all he must prevent, the marriage of Carol Hughes (whom he himself loves) to Misha Auer. All hands wind up in the crazy psychiatrist's sanitorium before McHugh is halfway through his triple task. But it all works out smoothly, with Frank winning the girl, the syndicate restored to businesslike order, and every one happy. RUNANGA PLUNKET BALL. It’s carnival night at Runanga this evening, when the local branch of the Plunket Society hold their grand ball in the now Minors’ Hall. The Gaiety Orchestra will provide the music, and the supper will be first-class. Efficient M.’s C. will have control of the floor, and there will be a number of novelty dances. A bus service will be run from Greymouth, leaving the Post Office at 9.10 p.m. The dance floor is in excellent, trim and patrons are assured' of an enjoyable evening.