ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 May 1938, Page 12

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. A stirring romantic drama, “Idol of Crowds,’’ starring .John Wayne and featuring Sheila Bromley, will be screened to-night and to-monov at the Opera House This picture is packed with . . . Drama! John Wayne has to play an ice hockey game tor the world championship while his little pal. Billy Burrud. lies critically injured in a hospital. John becomes jealously suspicious of his sweetheart and is led. to believe that she is in league with a gang that has bet on the other team to win. Thrills! Flashing skates, dashing conflict between two dazzlingly fast hockey teams .... Thousands cheering them to victory. . . . Outside the 1 Garden, two taxicabs in a crashing wreck . . Inside, gangster guns trained on Wayne to shoot him before he can score a goal. . . Police sirens screaming as the bluecoats hurtle through the streets to prevent, murder. Suspense! Heart throbs as Billy Burrud’s life hangs in the balance . . . . Romance dangling bj' a thread, as Wayne and Sheila misconstrue each other's intentions. . . . The last game. .... Will Wyne win it for his team? “Idol of the Crowds’’ is a picture that makes the heart race and the pulse leap faster. Be sure to see it. “THE WEINTRAUBS." On Monday and Tuesday, May 9th. and 10th„ pictures will be. suspended at tho Opera House to make way for the celebrated Continental comedy instrumentalists, “The Weintraubs" five individualists, each a show in himself. The management advise patrons that this is an entire evening’s entertainment of wonderful harmony, syncopation, comedy, burlesque and master musicians. “The Weintraubs” as an entertainment are'something definitely out of the ordinary, and certain it is that this talented company is the greatest musical and comedy combination ever to visit these shores. Theirs is a performance which has to be seen and heard to be fully appreciated.

REGENT THEATRE. A well-diversified; prog(ea|mme, including ‘‘Artists and Models” starring Jack Benty, Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra, Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen and Gael Patrick, will be screened for the last time at the Regent Theatre to-night. “TRUE CONFESSION.” How did I know that my boss wanted flirtation instead of dictation? What was I to do? I was only an innocent girl, and twelve pounds a week looked liko fair play, oven though I can’t typewrite! That, fiend in human form wanted me to smile for him, not file for him! So I popped him on the nose, and ran out! And now they’ve found him dead, and everybody says I killed him! Sure, my husband’s a lawyer, but he says that I’ve never told the truth up to now, so ho won’t believe me when I say I’m innocent —so I guess I’ll have to plead guilty, and give him a chance to prove that he’s a good enough lawyer to get me off! I only hope I’m around long enough to congratulate him on the victory—l hope. You’ll see the whole cock-eyed story in “True Confession,” when it opens on Tuesday at the Regent Theatre, with Carole Lombard playing me, Fred Mac Murray playing my husband, and John Barrymore playing around!

“HOLD ’EM NAVY." ! “Hold ’Em Navy,” featuring Lew ■ Ayres, Mary Carlisle and John How--1 ard, was photographed by Henry Sharp, A.S.C. The film, which is set in a famous naval academy, will be ' screened at thel Regent Theatre as a I second feature oh Thursday and Friday, the cast including Benny Baker and Elizabeth Patterson, and was directed bv Kurt Neumann. I I “BLOSSOMS ON BROADWAY.” A goldless gold mine! a male swindler and a female rogue trying to outdo each other; a pretty girl and a G-man furnish the larnghs and romance in “Blossoms on Broadway,” new comedy with music that opens next Thursday at the Regent .Theatre. The laughs come thick and fast with Edward Arnold, Shirley Ross, John Trent, William Frawley, Weber and Fields, Rufe Davis and Kitty Kelly handling the fun. TEMPLE THRILLER. “Wee Willie Winkie,” coming on Saturday to the Regent Theatre, Shirley Temple finds the Rudyard Kipling story her most elaborate and 'exciting’, screen production, with much thrill- 1 ing action with the Scotch highland-* ers at the Khyber Pass.