ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1938, Page 12

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. . “Love on the Run,” screening at the Opera House to-night and to-mor-row, is the reunion of that most delightful of love teams —Joan Crawford, Clarke Gable, Franchot Tone. Miss Crawford in the new picture reverts to light comedy. As an Amercan heiress- abroad she gives a portrayal that ranks her witli her. very best. Gable provides an admirable companion for her adventures. The American heiress’ millions are. cordially desired in exchange for a shoddy title. When she discovers the facts, the wedding is called off. At that point, Gable enters the scene as a newspaper correspondent. To avoid complications the girl agrees to dodge her almost in-laws by joining Gable in a stolen plane. He’s no great shakes as a pilot, but. they get off, and Joan receives a huge bouquet, of flowers at the airport. In the air, they discover a note in the roses, and learn that the owners of the plane are spies. The gift of roses was a case of mistaken identity, but it. gives Gable a. swell story. A rival reporter enters the case, and Hie trio is chased all over Europe by spies until the proper exigencies enable them to turn the tables. The increasingly popular Franchot Tone has one of his best portrayals to date as the rival reporter whose sense, of humour is as Owen and Mona Barrie disport themselves with the proper air of menace as members of the spy ring, and excellent bits are contributed by Ivan Ledebeff, Charles Judels, and William Demarest. “Love On the Run” may be safely listed as one of the pictures for which you get. your money’s worth and more! The shorts comprise a special short featurette, “Hollywood Party,” with Elissa Landi as hostess and a. galaxy of stars: Joe E. Brown, Clark Gable, Constance Bennett, Freddie Bartholomew, Charlie Chase, and the famous Marcus Show Girls. Also Pete Smith Speciality, and Metro News.

REGENT THEATRE

“Take My Tip” will have its final screening to-night.

‘CHAN AT THE OLYMPICS

In a mad relay of thrills, shudders and bafflement, with a hundred thousand wildly cheering spectators, every one a suspect, in the great stadium, death holds the stop watch, starting Charlie Chan on his greatest case in “Charlie Chan at the Olympics," opening at the Regent Theatre on Saturday with Warner Oland in the title role. “Even champion athlete cannot outdistance murder!” observes the wily Chinese sleuth, adapted from the character created by Earl Derr Biggers, in the race-paced thriller pitting him, at appalling odds, against a. murderous spy ring. Striking at canny Chan through his “number one” son, again played by Keye Luke, the ruthless gang, headed by Katherine de Mille and C. Henry Gordon, steal from under the very eyes of the government a. secret airplane radio-control device, not omitting murder in the process. To save his son, Chan follows the, thieves to Europe, overtaking their ship, which is carrying teams to the Olympic Games, by trans-Atlantic Zeppelin. Among the athletes aboard are Pauline Moore and Allan Lane, a romantically inclined, muscular young pair selected by the spies as. proper dupes to smuggle the radio device ashore. In the cleverest bit. of sleuthing of his career, Chan rounds up criminals by the substitution for the secret robot of a radio direction-indicator, which reveals their hide-out to the police, “BAR 20 RIDES AGAIN.” The management of the Regent Theatre have secured for the Popeye Chib matinee to-morrow one of the “Hopalong Cassidy” series, in which “Bar 20 Rides Again.”