ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1938, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. Acclaimed by audiences as one< of the grandest entertainments yet presented, “Kathleen Mavourneen” the sweetest love story that ever stole your heart away with Sally O’Neil as the charming Irish Colleen and Tom Burke (world famous tenor) playing leading roles will be finally screened at the Opera House to-night. The picture is a rare blending of romance, with Irish settings, Irish wit, Irish songs and dances. Lucan McShane provides the comedy that will send you into hysterical fits. So put this picture on your “Must Not Miss” list. “LET THEM LIVE.” A significant phase of modern life is portrayed with dramatic intensity in “Let Them Live.” starring John Howard and Nan Gray, finally screening at the Opera House to-night. It relates the battle of a young doctor who compels crooked officials 1 to provide proper equipment to save the lives of children threatened by an epidemic. “NO TIME TO MARRY.” The plight of a star reporter who spends his wedding night on a goat hunt —under orders from his : managing editor, and does that get the bride nanny! Making fun on the run’s furious fun! You’ll go batty about this side-splitting, shriek-a-second romance, “No Time to Marry,” which will be screened at the Opera. House to-morrow and Thursday. Richard Arlen and Mary Astor truck —a truckload of turkeys! And Lionel Stander makes looney love to a Leopard! It’s rowdy, roisterous, girl-meets-boystei-ous! They’re knee-deep in madness and head-over-heels in love! They’ve got bats in the wedding bell-fry! It’s a menagerie of mirth! Virginia Dale, a dazzling new'comer, Marjorie Gateson, Thurston Hall, Arthur Loft and others are also featured in this comedy riot! It’s love at its gladdest! It’s fun at its maddest! And it all takes place on Christmas Eve! “THE BIG SHOW.” “The Big Show” is the first full length picture to introduce to Greymouth audiences Gene Autry. The singing cowboy sensation, and the most popular star on the screen today, showing at the Opera House tomorrow and Thursday. The picture gives Autry an outstanding good opportunity to present several new song hits in his inimitable style; which has made him the favourite the' world over. Packed with, excitement the picture may well be claimed to be the most ambitious western ever produced. Supporting Gene are Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette, and four big orchestras. REGENT THEATRE. The last screening of “Happy Landing,” with popular Sonja Henio, will be given al the Regent Theatre this evening. CHAN ON BROADWAY. A special interest, attaches to the screenings here of the picture “Charlie Chan on Broadway,” which commences on Wednesday, because of the fact that the principal performer Warner Oland, who has made famous the character of Chan, has just joined the great majority, his death having only yesterday been reported from Norway. In this picture, Chan, called into action on New York’s “Great White Way” invades the night clubs

to seek the killer whose double murder casts a shadow of terror over Manhattan’s gayest spotis. This is the newest of his screen adventures. It’s “candid-camera night” in a swanky midtown cabaret and as the flashlights of a hundred enthusiastic “minicam” fans boom, death strikes, then strikes again, bringing Chau, fresh from his (sleuthing triumphs in distant lands, to confront the most baffling adventure of his career. Oland is featured in his familiar outstanding characterisation of the Chinese detective, and prominent (roles in the cast are played by Keye Luke, as Chan’s “number one son,” J. Edward Brombery, .loan Marsh, Louise Henry, Joan Woodbury, Donald Woods, Douglas Fowley and Harold Huber. The blundering curiosity of Chan’iS “number one son” is the opening wedge of Chan’s entrance into a mystery concerning a night club singer’s secret diary, supposed to contain sensational information that, once published, will “blow the lid off the town." Before the diary is brought to light, however, the singer is killed in Broadway’s gayest, night spot. a. murder, soon followed by a second, that serves to baffle the police even more. In the attempt to imitate the wily sleuthing of his father, Lee Chan manages to place himself in a highly suspicious position, from which he has to be ignominously ■extricated by the Oriental detective. A multitude of conflicting clues becloud the entire case, with the chief evidence supplied by the amateur can-did-camera. “shots” taken in the club. This is a new angle in screen mysteries, used for the first time in this story. From the confusion of circumstances Chan manages, in his quiet, philosophical fashion, to piece together an amazing solution that is thrillingly proved in a surprising climax. “WELLS FARGO.” Often there comes a picture; which everybody simply must see. Such picture is “Wells Fargo,” the stirring and inspiring (story of the building and maintaining of America’s first lifeline of empire—the Wells Fargo Trail. “Wells Fargo” which opens Friday at the Regent is a. big picture, taken from history and painted on heroic canvas with bold and daring strokes. The big cast of over a hundred is headed by Joel McCrea, Frances Dee and Bob Burns. It is a story which, will thrill and inspire you. See it!