ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1941, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE —Now Showing: “THE WESTERNER” & "MARCH OF TIME.”

Against the colourful and adven-ture-filled background of the old West, in the days when justice was administered at the point of a gun, and roistering Judge Roy Bean loomed as the “Law West of Pecos,” “The Westerner,” starring Gary Cooper, and featuring Walter Brennan and Fred Stone, is now showing at the Opera House. The setting of the story is Vinegaroon, Texas, in the roaring days of the ’Bo’s, when there raged a bitter and long-protracted battle between the cattlemen, original settlers of the land, and the homesteaders, who sought to till the land they homesteaded under the law. Just when the battle is reaching a peak, the Westerner, a roving cowboy named Cole Harden, drifts into town and finds himself entangled in the vicious “Law West of the Pecos.” But the Westerner is a wily adventurer, fearless and bold, and when he comes to grips with wily Judge Bean, he proves a shrewd opponent. Discovering that Judge Bean’s idol is the fabulous and beauteous Lily Langtry, the stranger tells the Judge that he has met the Jersey Lily, and knows her well. This news intrigues the Judge, and he manages to have Cole reprieved until further evidence in the trumped-up case against him is brought in. The story reaches' a smash climax in the scene when the cattlemen and Bean’s henchmen set fire to the hundreds of homesteads and farms throughout the area. Cole realises that the time has come for a showdown with Judge Roy Bean. He follows the weatherbeaten, grimy old man to Fort Davis, where Lily Langtry is to make her long-promised visit. How Cole waylays the Judge just as the gorgeous actress is about to step before the footlights and what happens when guns are fired provides the story with a swift, actionfilled ending.

REGENT — Commencing To-day: Errol Flynn in “THE SEA HAWK.”

Errol Flynn, swashbuckling hero of so many thrilling screen adventures, has his most glorious role in “The Sea ria wk,” a thrilling new saga of the seven seas. Riding the dangerswept waters of the Spanish Main, fighting through enemy ambushes in the swamp-infested jungles of Panama, attacking the fighting ships of a great Armada, battling the tyranny that shackles men to the tortuous chains of a terrible bondage, Flynn s role as “The Sea Hawk” is film advesture at its greatest heights. Mighty sea battles, daring duels, magnificent court scenes and a tender love story are masterfully interwoven in “The Sea Hawk,” which critics have labelled one of the great motion pictures of all time. Featured with Flynn is beautiful Brenda Marshall, hailed as one of the most exciting new star “finds” of the year. Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Flora' Robson, Alan Hale, William Lundigan and Una O’Connor head the supporting cast of thousands. DANCES TO COME ! To-night: Ngahere Home Guard. May 3: Ngahere-Blackball R.S.A. May 7: Woolworths. May 9: Runahga Druids. May 10: Stillwater. I May 17: Ikamatua Golf. May 23: Reefton Catholic. May 24: Waiuta Red Cross. June 2: Grey Fire Brigade. June 7: Blackball Oddfellows. June 13: Runanga Labour. July 19: Waiuta W.t.