ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 March 1941, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE: Now Showing: “Untamed.” \ <•’

Sinclair Lewis’ famous story, “Mantrap,” has been translated into an exciting and intriguing picture under the title “Untamed,” co-starring Ray Milland, Patricia Morison and Akim Tamiroff, and which is now showing at the Opera House. The ' picture is announced as one of the more important offerings for the current season and has been filmed entirely in Technicolour. Backgrounded by the awesome, yet colourful north-Can-adian forests of the Rockies, it visualises the love of two men—one a sturdy, single-minded hunter and guide, the other a sophisticated city society doctor —for a woman, who, through a strange quirk of destiny, has married the guide, although her entire life has been spent in an atmosphere of fine clothes and modern city life. Immured in a tiny Northwest community, she falls in love with this doctor, who represents everything worth while in life to her, but honour and affection for the third in this eternal triangle, acts as an unsurmountabld bar to both in a consummation of their love. In a series of dramatic sequences the picture builds to a powerful climax, rich in entertainment values. Others featured in the cast are William Frawley, Jane Darwell and Farrell McDonald.

REGENT: Now showing—Excellent Comedy: “FORTY LITTLE MOTHERS.” In the story of “Forty Little Mothers,” Eddie Cantor, the Clown Prince of Gags, discards his mantle of hokum to emerge as a real human being, providing a combination of comedy pathos and drama that blends into what is indubitably his best picture. The story is of a timid professor who, after saving a distraught mother from suicide, inadvertently inherits her abandoned baby. When he gets a job in a girls school he takes the baby along and attempts to hide it in his apartment. Cantor runs into a rebellion when the students attempt to have him fired because he is not as handsome as his predecessor. A high light is the appearance of Judith Anderson, celebrated Broadway stage star, as Madam Granville, head of the school. Rita Johnson plays the unfortunate mother and delivers a fine performance, Excellent also are Nydia Westman, as the old maid stooge of Miss Anderson, Bonita ' Granville, leader of the rebellious schoolgirls. Ralph Morgan as the kindly judge, Diana Lewis, Margaret Early, Martha O’Driscoll, Charlotte Munier and Luise-Seidel. As for the infant, Baby “Chum,” he comes close to stealing every scene in which he appears.

Patrons are advised to make early

reservations. ’Phone 601 now.