ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1940, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—To-night: “DISPUTED PASSAGE.” Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff and John Howard share top dramatic honours in “Disputed Passage,” an exciting story about the problems of medical men, which is now showing at the Opera House. Based on Lloyd G. Douglas’ best-selling no ( vel, it asks the dramatic question; will marriage interfere with the career of a promising young surgeon? To which Lloyd Douglas answers that there is a powei’ higher than anything which is learned in the laboratory! In her first genuinely dramatic role, Miss Lamour plays a young American girl brought up in China who comes to America to make her home. Her vital love for Howard who portrays the brilliant young surgeon, runs afoul of Akim Tamiroff, a worldfamous neurological surgeon who believes in the stern dedication of a physician’s life to science. This trenchant attitude provides the focal point upon which the story revolves when Tamiroff persuades Miss Lamour that her projected marriage to Howard will bring his career to defeat. Other members of the supporting cast who contribute towards making “Disputed Passage” the new season’s outstanding medical film are William Collier, Sr., Gordon Jones, Keye Luke and starlet Judith Barrett.

REGENT: Now Showing: “FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS.” A bunch of grown-up men sitting at desks and learning their French, a temperamental French professor with a piquant brunette daughter, and a glamorous blonde interloper with designs on all men are the ingredients of “French Without Tears,” based on Terrence Rattigan’s famous play of the same name. The producer’s belief in the technique of getting “close” to the audience from the screen should be responsible for a ready host of silent chuckles as well as loud laughs. Ray Milland and Ellen Drew are the well chosen principals for this show. Jim Gerald, a French comedian, plays a character role with Milland and his co-star. Gerald, according to Milland, is a monumental individual with one of the most pleasing personalities he ever has encountered. “He’s wide enough for two men,” said Milland. “He has a huge, roly-poly face lobster red from exposure to sun and wind, which is almost continuously wreathed in smiles.” Patrons are requested to make early reservation for this excellent comedy.