ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1940, Page 3

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-sefling novel, 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 power 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 —Finally To-night: “FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS.” Commencing Tuesday: “THE YOUNG IN HEART.” Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Paulette Goddard made their debut as an exciting new screen trio in the comedy romance, “The Young in Heart.” Roland “Topper” Young, Billie .Burke, Henry Stephenson, Richard Carlson, romantic newcomer from the New York stage, and Minnie Dupree, head the imposing supporting cast of this version of I. A. R. Wylie Saturday Evening Post serial, “The Gay Banditti.” “The Young in Heart” is the delightful story of the Carletons, a family of fascinating phonies, who live by their charm and anyone’s money, and have been kicked out of only the best places from the Riviera to London. They’re out to “take” the world, but their hearts get the surprise of their easy-going lives.

! RAILWAYS SWINGTIME REVUE. To-morrow (Tuesday) will be the opening night of a season of gaiety I at the Town Hall, when the Railways Swingtime Revue stage their second production, “Half-Shot at Sunrise.” Outstanding is the ballet dancing by the Swingtime girls in the “Military Ballet,” also the “Waltz Time” ballet. There is a burlesque “Strip Tease,” entitled “The Seven Wails,” danced by the male members of the show. Mr Sorenson (Shorty) leads the cast with good comedy sketches, and proves that “all men are liars.” The show is packed with attractive vocal and instrumental musical hits, dancing and comedy. Parents could do worse to-morrow and Wednesday than put the youngsters to'bed during the afternoon so as to be able to take them in the evenings to a show that will live in their imaginations for years afterwards as a source of amusement. The proceeds are in aid of the Patriotic Funds. The box plan is now open at Kilgours, and booking costs nothing extra.