ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1938, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. “Merry-Go-Round of 1938,” with the greatest of all laugh makers, The Fohr Horsemen of Hilarity in a 10- • star fun frolic, will be finally screened to-night at the Opera House. It is one of the funniest musical comedies yet produced, with dozens of girls you’ll adore, new song hits you’ll love to hum and whistle, romance you’ll love, action to thrill you, and laughs by the hundred’s to make you hold your sides to keep them from falling in. “MADAME X.” The screen demonstrates forcibly again that it can add new charm to the old beauty of the theatre. The time-honoured stage hit, “Madame X,” with Gladys George in the title role, proves heart-stabbing entertainment. This is the picture which comes to the Opera House to-morrow and Thursday, The remembered story of the woman who was drawn by circumstances into a life of degradation and was at the last defended by her son, who did not know her, has been one of the most dramatic stage vehicles in many years. It gains a greater quality of suspense in the adaptation. The producers have also brought the narrative closer into the present without detracting in any way from the original. Gladys George has played 1 the role on the stage. She brings to the screen characterisation a wealth of artistry and delicate understanding. John Beal is the son and Warren William plays the part of Fleuriot, the husband. They are ac-

complished actors who contribute pre cisely the right qualities to their char acterisations. The supporting cast ii notably good, including Reginah Owen, William Henry, Daniell, Phillij Reed, Lynne Carver and Emma Dunn “Madame X” remains on the screei the magnificent drama it was on th< stage, an older generation remember! it with keen enthusiasm. Now i comes enhanced with the new powei of the films. FAMOUS BOXING KANGAROO. One of the most novel, amazing comical and thrilling acts in the world is “Aussie,” .the boxing Kangaroo, coming to an appearance on the stage of the Opera House on Monday and Tuesday, September 2( and 27, being presented by M Lindsay Fabre, his owner and sparring partner. This animal boxer guarantees a “knock-out.” An act that must be seen to be believed. You’ll be roaring with laughter when you are not speechless with excitement. A favourite with young and old, so make up your mind now to see this wonderful animal perform.

RECENT THEATRE. One father? She’s got forty-live! Ono jam? She’s in four hundred, and fifty! One laugh? There’s at least forty-five, hundred of them in “45 Fathers,” fun-packed picture starring Jane Withers, and featuring Thomas Beck, Louis Henry and the inimitable Hartmans, eccentric ventriloquists and Broadway satirists of the dance, which opens to-day at the Regent Theatre. A group of millionaires draws Idts to determine “which lucky man is going to have his life brightened by this sweet little girl?” and then shout for help as Jane starts throwing things around and the ventriloquizing Hartmans start throwing! their dancing, voices and discretion to the winds in the funniest picture Jane

ever made. The highly amusing screen play first finds Jane with the Hartmans, aboard a vessel bound for New York, where she is to be adopted by the members of a millionaire explorers’ club of which her father was a member. A series of hilarious situations get under way when the inseparable trio, after arriving in New York, find their way to the club where the solemn members are thrown into an uproar as Jane goes on a riotous rampage. Taken by Richard Carle, “Lucky” winner in the drawing, to his nephew’s home, Jane, in spite of her uproarious antics, takes time out to study the interest of Louise Henry, an attractive but scheming society girl, in Thomas Beck, and proceeds to rescue him from the entanglement. With the audience limp from laughter, the picture rises to still greater heights of merriment when it reaches the climax in which Jane, aided and’ abetted by the Hartmans, throws a heart-balm trial into a carnival of laughter by exposing the snobbish society schemers with wild ventriloquistic tricks.

“HOPALONG CASSIDY.”

The’fifteenth Clarence E. Mulford’s outdoor action romance to reach the screen “Partners of the Plains” opens on Thursday at the Regent Theatre, with William Boyd again playing the role of the dauntless cowboy character he has made famous. Gwen Gaze, a spectacular new star, plays the role of an English girl who tries to wind the cowboy around her finger only to find herself at his feet. Others in the cast of this Harry Sherman production are Russel Hayden, Harvey Clark. Hilda Plowright and John Warburton. “SCANDAL STREET,” Lew Ayres, rated the best trapdrummer in Hollywood’, preparedjrom his earliest school days for a career as an orchestra leader, only to be discovered by Lily Daniita in a Los Angeles cabaret and put into motion pictures where he scored a great dramatic hit in “All Quiet on the Westrn Front.” He plays the leading role in r Scandal Street,” which open on Thursday at the Regent Theatre.

OLD-TIMERS APPEAR. , Herbert Rawlinson and Johnny Tarran, film stars of the screen’s silent days, appear in “That Certain Woman,” which comes to .the Regent Theatre on Saturday. Henry Fonda, lan Hunter, Anita Louise and several other current favourites are the cast principals.

DANCE AT HERB MOORE’S. Oyer eighty couples with an enthusiastic spirit of “make the dance go with a swing” thoroughly enjoyed last Tuesday evening’s dance (in aid ol the Sports Queen), at Herb Moore’s Cabaret. All dancers are. cordially invited to this popular dance to-night, and one and all are guaranteed a happy, care-free entertainment.