ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1938, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. Deanna Durbin, the lovable heroine of “Three Smart Girls” and' ‘TOO Men and a Girl” is back again at the Opera House in “Mad About Music, a gloriously gay and captivating story o f youth and song which, brings to you new joy and new music, with her heart-warming personality and. her glorious voice. “Mad About Music will he screened: to-night and to-mor-row. Deanna, .sings four numbers to the accompaniment of locomotive whistles, bronze bells, harmonica ensembles and a. famous European choir. Tho compositions -which Deanna vocalises are “I Lovo to Whistle,” “Chapel Bells,” and “A Serenade to the Stars.” Miss Durbin’s fellow’ students at a girls’ school in Switzerland provide a. whistling musical support as they bicycle along to class. Miss Durbin happens' to be attending this school ■because her mother. Gail Patrick, a, movie actress, cannot admit a deceased husband and fifteen-year-old child to her adoring public. She sends Deanna, abroad to school. Here the girl meets Herbert Marshall and adopts him, as her father. She sings “1 Love to Whistle” again on a tuain bound for Paris, to steam whistle accompaniment. For another rendition of. this song. Deanna has Gappy Barra’s harmonica ensemble. Prospective recordings were, utilised for tho accompaniment of “Chapel Bells” to get the effect of distance 'for the church chime background. For her singing of Gounod’s “Ave Maria.” Miss Durbin was accompanied by the voices of the Vienna Boys’ Choir. “A Serenade to the Stars” is sung to Herbert Marshall’s piano accompaniment and that of a string orchestra. Others prominent in the cast are Arthur Treacher, William Frawley, Rranklin Pangboon, Jackie Moran, and Helen Parrish. “ROSE OF TRALEE.” The sweetest picture ever to grace the screen comes to the Opera House on Friday and Saturday, entitled, “Rose of Tralee,” starring the new four-year-old wonder Binkio Stuart. “Rose of Tralee” will be screened at Kumara to-night. REGENT THEATRE. Everyone has read Rex Beach’s unforgettable novel, “The Barrier,” and thrilled to its blazing istory of a couple in love, who heeded the call of 'their own wild heart-beats while between them stood the greatest barrier known to man! Let. all now see “The Barrier” on the screen, filmed in' the same glorious country which inspired Beach to novel, grippingly enacted by a great cast which is headed 'by Leo Carrillo, Jean Parker and James Ellison! It’s flaming, magnificent, film flare, this tale of a boy and girl whose lovo was strong enough to tear down the mightiest coda of the woods! it will: be an. experience that one will never, forget. Remember —“Tho Barrier” , opns on Tuesday .at the Regent j Theatre —and it is definitely at the’ top of the “must be seen” films of,'tho year! . * |i ‘‘SHE HAD TO EAT.” ] Two novelty songs' written for the. comedy “She Had to Eat,” opening on < Thursday at. the Regent Theatre, are j already on their way to top national'] ranking. Jack Haley, who. panicked j audiences with his frantic antics in t j previous pictures, is featured in the’jj film, -with Rochelle Hudson, Arthur c Treacher and Eugene Palle-tte in the t cast. j

“THE CALIFORNIAN.” Though he is almost invariably thought to be a native of Spain. Mexico or one of the South American Republics, Ricardo Cortez is.' authority for the statement that actually he lwas born in Vienna. The actor is seen as a Mexican of Spanish descent in “The, Californian,” a story Gf the early West, which opens on Thursday at tho Regent Theatre. “SMASH AND GRAB.” A little known fact. 'but a. highly interesting one. is that- .lark Buchanan was the discoverer of talented Anna Neagle. The star of “Victoria the. Great,” and one of the most important feminine stars in the •world was first given a chance in pictures opposite Buchanan in “Stand Up and Sing.” Buchanan noticed Anna Neagle and persuaded her director to give Iter a eham-o. Jack Buchanan is the star of the exciting comedy. “Smash and. Grab," which comes to the Regent. Theatre next Thursday.