ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 May 1938, Page 15

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. ' Romance of a woman's sacrifice for a, man. Drama in a man’s' love for “The Good Earth.” A spectacle that is dwarfing all that has gone before, “The Good Earth,” starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer,” will be finally screened to-night at the Opera House. See the famine in. the North, the Revolution in the South; embattled farmers rout locusts whose legions hide out the sun. Enchanted Chinese gardens of marbel pools' and lily ponds whose nightingales sing. Men run a gauntlet of death ter avoid conscription in the armies of war lords. The looting of the Great House of Loo. Fire dragons of the Chinese New Year celebrations. All the thrills, warmth, colour and romance that, made the book the world’® greatest seller.

“WAY OUT WEST.” Hero they are folks . . . the newest. desperadoes of the Gay 9O’.s . . . Laurel and Hardy . . . they've come “Way Out. West" hitch-hiking' on a stage coach! Laurel and Hardy as a, pair of gold prospectors and the prospects for laughs are great! “Way Out. West" is their newest featurelength laugh hit . . . their newest and their funniest! which will be screened at the Opera House to-morrow and Saturday. Can you picture what happens when Stan and Ollie find themselves in the midst of the hard-boiled honky-tonks of the gold-dust, days? No vou can’t. You’d have to see it to believe it. “Way Out West” is full of chuckles and guffaws from its opening reel to the final fadeout. You'll roar when Stan and Ollie start 3. flirtation with a. fellow passengei nn ilia stage coach only to discover that, she is the wife, of the sheriff! You'll fall out. of your seats when yon see them do their own version of the modern swing dance; You’ll split your sides when you watch the antics of the burro with whom they start, out on their trek “Way Out. West." Half the time they’re riding the burro and the other half of the time the burro is riding them!

‘•JUNGLE JIM.” new serial, “Jungle Jim." will commence its first, of 12 instalments at tho Opera House matinee, Saturday, Chapter J being “In the Lion’s Den!" Ml 1 lie mvstery, intrigue and adventure tor which Africa is famous has been embodied in this film, rhe picture shows a man. armed only with a knife, in close combat with a lion. It shows elephants in stampede, before whom both man and wild animals flee in terror. It gives an authentic view of the natives of Africa —how they live and. when aroused, hov they go into battle. Through the story runs an absorbing plot centreing about, a white girl, who, raised in the jungle, is worshipped by the natives as a goddess because of her extraordinary power to rule lions. Tho title role of "Jungle Jim,” is played by the star Grant Withers. Opposite him is charming Billy Jane Rhodes. REGENT THEATRE. The strangest case that ever rocked a. hall of justice and the. most humii story of the year, ‘One Mile From Heaven,” will be shown to-night at the Regent Theatre. It is a human. exciting story of two mothers fighting desperately for the same child. The one brought the little girl into the world, but though her dead in a fateful car crash, and, after

several years, found her hopes renewed. The other nursed the child back. Io health, nurtured ami guarded her. and came to love her as 1 her own. In this situation is a girl reporter. assigned to the biggest, news scoop of the year, yet to do so would blast, the lives of three innocent people. The climax leaves one _ breathless. Claire Trevor is the reporter, with Sally Plane and Fred! Washington the mothers fighting for the same child. Douglas Fowley injects the villainy with his consistent portrayal of the ex-convict extortionist. “One Mile From Heaven” is human, vibrant, dramatic, and thoroughly entertaining. “WESTERN GOLD.’’ Radio’s greatest, singing cowboy, Smith Ballew, becomes Harold Bell Wright's most thrilling hero in the role of a fighting, singing, loving son cf the plains who blazes, a- trail for gold-laden stage-coaches, thundering through treacherous mountain passes that bristle with the guns of raiding desperadoes and chanting unforgettable cowboy ballads to the tune of whining bullets in “Western Gold,” to be shown to-night at the Regent Theatre. Ordered by President Lincoln to thwart desperadoes whose interruption of gold shipments threatens, financial disaster. Ballew heads at once for Red Bluff, where the bandits have concentrated. The most hardbitten veterans of the trail have been terrorised by the bandits, and the special agent stirs up excitement bj offering to drive the next gold coach through. Crackling adventure is tempered bv the romance between the newcomer and the daughter of the express agent, played by Heathei Aiit,c • Ballew succeeds on rounding'up the outlaws, although not before a. pitched battle between the citizens and the robbers.

“DEAD END.” Wendy Barrie has discovered a cousin she didn’t know she had. He is Brian Alterne, wdio comes the Regent on Saturday in “Dead; Aherne is her cuosin by marriage. Ihe actress had never met Aherne. But she planned to meet him upon his return to Hollywood. “I’m going /o break the news to him,” she staid. “1 m usually not much on relationship but this is different.”