ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 June 1940, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE: Now Showing:— “ANDY HARDY GETS SPRING FEVER.”

Spring may not be in the air for you, but it is for the people of Carvel, | Andy Hardy has Spring Fever!«Again the delightful Hardy Family, with Lewis Stone as the Judge, Mickey Rooney as Andy, Cecilia Parker, as Marian, Fay Holden as Ma Hardy and Sara Haden as Aunt Milly have come amongst us, and they’ll be at the Opera House to-night, to-morrow | and Monday in the lucky seventh! Hardy Family hit, “Andy Hardy Gets I Spring Fever,” and it’s one of the maddest and merriest pieces of enter-

tainment in years. Mickey falls in love with his pretty dramatic teacher in high school, and actually proposes. He writes the school play, stars in it with Ann Rutherford, builds a prop volcano for it. The play itself is a howl of mirth from start to finish. He took Romeo and Juliet for the story moved it over to Tahiti, and let the Tahitian Juliet jump into a volcano, j There’s a laugh in every line. There is tender heart interest too, in the boy’s

infatuation for his very charming teacher; in their final scene together, where she brings him to a realisation that marriage isn’t the thing for a mere boy and a twenty-three-year-old girl. One of the greatest scenes, compelling in its human quality, is the scene where Lewis Stone, as the father, discusses the serious aspect of marriage with the adolescent boy. Stone, as the Judge, becomes enmeshed in a plot of swindlers, and extricates himself and fellow townsmen by a clever legal trick. And Mickey and Ann Rutherford kiss and make up. You’ll revel in this simple, human story of typical American family life in a small town, in the trials and tribulations fo the youngsters, and the deep heart interest that blends with the comedy. The first part of the programme is also of a high standard and includes, Metro News; Cinesound Review; a Fitzpatrick Traveltalk; and a sensa-

tional issue from Crime Does Not Pay series “Drunk Driving” which shows (“If you drink, don’t drive; If you drive, don’t drink.”)

REGENT: Finally To-night: “HAWAIIAN NIGHT" and “CODE OF THE SECRET SERVICE.” Commencing SATURDAY: “THE CAT AND THE CANARY." I The mystery-comedy “The Cat and 1 the Canary" based on John Willard’s stage play has a cast headed by Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal, Douglas Montgomery, Gale Sondergaard, Elizabeth Patterson and George Zucco. A mansion in the Lousiana marshes is the setting. When seven people are in attendance at the mansion all but one being a potential heir, to hear the reading of the deceased owner’s will, the chills and fun begin. On lovely Joyce Norman be- I coming the new owner she is imme-j diately menaced by a hairy, murderous creature, “The Cat” and it is all that Wally. Campbell can do to save her from the clutches of “The Cat," what with strange, ominous noises,

whisking hands, a murder, and mysterious passage-ways.

ISOBEL BAILLIE.

Among the famous artists who are to appear at the Greymouth Centennial Concert to be held at the Regent Theatre on July 3, is Miss Isobel Baillie. Miss Baillie’s record is brilliant and unique. In 1923, she made

her debut in London, and so instantaneous was her success that the Queen’s Hall claimed her no less than six times in the first season. Since then Miss Baillie has appeared at the Queen’s Hall on innumerable occasions. Among her most conspicuous successes have been the ingenuous role of Marguerite in Berlioz’s “Faust,” and the exacting soprano j parts in Beethoven’s Mass in D and the Choral Symphony, and, needless to say, Handel’s “Messiah.” All these works have been done at the Manchester Halle Concerts under the baton of Sir Hamilton Harty. Miss Baillie has also been eminently successful at the great English musical

I festivals. From the inception of > broadcasting, Isobel Baillie has excited interest, and her singing has aroused a world-wide appreciation. The members of the Centennial String Quartette, who will assist at the concert, are: Vincent Aspey (first violin), Harry Ellwood (second violin), William McLean (viola), and Francis Bate (violincello). Clifford Huntsman, noted English pianist, will be at the piano.