ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 August 1939, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE: FINAL SCREENINGS: “KENTUCKY.”

With the glorious tradition of the Blue Grass country as its background, and a love that is all fire and pride as its theme, the technicolour production, “Kentucky,” starring Loretta Young, Richard Greene and Walter Brennan, -will be finally screened at the Opera House to-nigHf. Here is a picture that is rich in everything you desire in motion pictures entertainment, glamorous romance of beautiful women, chivalrous men, and- magnificent thoroughbreds climaxes in breath-taking spectacle when the silks flash by at Churchill Downs in the famed Kentucky Derby;

NEXT ATTRACTION: ‘THE STORM’

Turning the spotlight on drama in the lives of wireless operators aboard merchant ships, “The Storm” comes to the screen of the Opera House tomorrow and Thursday. Cast in characteristic roles for the story which tells of conflict and disaster at sea, are Charles Bickford, Barton Mac Lane, Preston Foster and Andy Devine. Tom Brown and Nan Grey carry the romantic interest. “The Storm” depicts Bickford's efforts to keep his young brother, Tom Brown, from following his own reckless mode of life on the sea. A counter-plot shows Bipkford striving for revenge against Mac Lane, who has abandoned his friend, Foster, to drown on a sinking sliip. Impressive scenes will show the explosion of a gasoline tanker in mid-ocean, the crashing of a speeding ocean liner into an iceberg, the drama in wireless rooms as ships fight their way through typhoon and hurricane and the performing of a surgical operation aboard a storm tossed freighter, while a doctor on shore directs the surgery by radio telephone. Samuel S. Hinds, Florence Roberts and Joseph Sawyer head the supporting cast.

•REGENT: Final screening of “THE RETURN OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL,” and “SPEED TO BURN.” Commencing Wednesday: “SAFETY IN NUMBERS” and “GAMBLING SHIP”

“Safety in Numbers,” featuring the Jones family, gets off to a breezy start with Mrs.. Jones —voted “The World’s Best Mother” in a radio contest —going on the air with a weekly broadcast, advising her listeners about domestic problems. The programme is a huge success, but meanwhile the Joneses get tangled up in some pretty serious domestic problems of their own —what with Jack planning to elope and Dad plunging his own and the whole town’s savings into a mineral water investment scheme which turns out to be a phony. How Mrs. Jones, with the whole family rallying to her side manages to save the situation from complete disaster offers an exciting climatic proof that there is indeed, “Safety in Numbers.” Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Spring Byington, Russell Gleason, Ken Howell, George Ernest, June Carlson, Florence Roberts and Billy Mahan have their usual family assignments, while Marvin Stephens, Iva. Stewart *and Henry Kolker complete the cast. The associate feature, “Gambling Ship,” is a. timely, action-filled drama in which a special investigator uses motion pictures to trap a crooked gambling ring. Robert Wilcox, who plays an undercover man posing as a gangster;' Helen Mack, as a beautiful young gambling ship owner; Ed. Brophy, as a comedy thug; Joseph Sawyer, as an ex-prizefighter and loyal bodyguard,

and Irving Pichel, as a scholarly gang leader, have leading roles. Action starts off when a speed-boat explosion sets the stage for a gambling war that ends only after a series of mishaps and misunderstandings between a romantic pair, the investigator and the girl who operate a floating casino in open defiance of a powerful mob.

High-seas romance and an expose of red-handed racketeering in the gambling game provide dramatic highlights in the story. ’Phone 601 for all reservations. CELTIC PALL. Zero hour will soon arrive in Greymouth’s social circles, the ambassadors of happiness are all in readiness to “go over the top” to-night. Blast Old Man Gloom sky high. Tlie Celtic boys have everything in readiness to usher in the best night’s fun ever had on the West Coast, and Schaef’s Hall will be full of a happy throng for the festive evening. The belle of the hall contest will be judged by two competent outside judges, so all girls can rest assured on this point. Arn. Beck and his boys have been practising strenuously for the big evening and will release numbers never heard on the West Coast before. Dance patrons are in for a feast of first-class music. The supper, which is entirely home-made, is in charge of a very capable ladies’ committee, and nothing has been spared to satisfy the wants of dancers. All girls and boys are requested to discard all cares and worries, forget about this month’s payment of the dole, and flock along to Schaef’s Hall tonight, and have the time of their lives at the Celtic Ball.