ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 July 1941, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE! —Now Showing! ‘■Convoy,” starring Clive Brook and Judy Campbell. No film in recent years has so gripped the imagination as “Convoy,” which is now showing at the Opera House, for an extended season. With a canvas crammed with highgeared thrills, desperate adventures, resounding naval encounters, pulsating acts of individual heroism and adorned with bluff, sardonic humour of the British blueiacket arid men of the Merchant Service, this large scale production fulfils up to the hilt every demand for a topical drama extolling Britain’s command of the seas. A flagship, expecting leave, is ordered to sea without a breathing space to convoy a fleet of merchantmen. Among the latter is a tough old skipper who thinks he can do better away from the convoy and takes his ship, packed with refugees, on a course of his own. On the flagship the Captain (Clive Brook), is disconcerted to find the Admiralty have appointed as his lieutenant the man who fan away with his wife and left her stranded. The girl in question is on the refugee ship, which is soon in difficulties with a U-boat. The flagship Captain ignores her SOS lest he irhperil the rest of his charges, but the Lieutenant dispatches a plane to its assistance, only to have it shot down. Though the captain’s wife is saved, and explains away ■ his bigoted misjudging of his younger colleague, the flagship has to erigage single-handed the German pocket-battleship, “Deutschland.” The whole production is alive with action from end to end, with every in[gredient of popular entertainment skilfully moulded into a film you will really enjoy and long remember. John Clements plays the part of the Lieutenant, Judy Campbell as the lovetroubled wife, and Edward Chapman as the tramp skipper.

REGENT: —Now Showing: “THE GREAT VICTOR HERBERT.” This picture is not so much a biography of Herbert as a drama of the composer’s influence over the show world of his day. It tells of the romance of a stage-struck girl and the matinee idol of the day. who meet in Herbert’s gay world, find fame 'in his operettas and happiness in friendship With the great man. Miss Martin, as the young* girl, comes to New York with her only assets uncommonly good looks, a fine singing voice ahd a determination to make a name on Broadway. Her lucky day comes when she meets .Herbert’s premier star, Jones, who falls in love with her, makes her his wife and later his stage partner. Follow the couple’s dramatic experiences over which Herbert, in the person of Connolly, casts a shadow. Their struggle to stay in public favour, to prevent their marriage from becoming “just another Broadway affair” and to make another star of .their talented daughter form a fast-paced backstage story. Miss ’Martin ohly needed one foie to make her name famous. Her singing of “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” in “Leave It To Me,” did the trick. Another newcomer is the sensational singing discovery, 14-year-old Susanna Foster. Some of Victor Herbert’s best-re-membered songs intersperse the. story, including: “A Kiss .iff the Dark,” “Kiss M Again,” and “I’ffi Falling ih Love With Someone.” Patrons are urged to book early. ’Phone 601 now.