ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 January 1942, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE —Now Showing: “THIS WOMAN IS MINE,” starring Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan and Carol Bruce. “This Woman is Mine,” a romantic adventure story oi the early nineteenth century, witii Franchot Tone, John Carroll, Walter Brennan and Carol Bruce in the starring roles, is now showing at the Opera House. Lloyd has long been famous as a maker of great sea pictures, anu in this he tells a story of both the sea and the land during the pioneering era of American history. The story deals with the. voyages aboard the schoner Tonquin, which made a hazardous trip around the Horn in 1811) to establish the American fur trade in the Pacific Northwest. Tone is a voting clerk sent to represent Joim Jacob Aster, owner of tne expedition. Carroll portrays a laughing, loving French-Canadian riverman, and Brennan, the- stern captain of tne Tonquin, ft also marks the screen debut of Miss Bruce, who won overnight lame on the New York stage. She plays the principal feminine role in the ‘picture, that of a soubrette who falls in love with Carroll and stows away on the Tonquin to be near him.

REGENT THEATRE —Now Showing: “WATERLOO BRIDGE.” Robert E. Sherwood's noted stage play has been drastically changed in adaptation to the screen. By setting the opening scenes in London of the present moment, under black-out conditions, the screen play is given added realism ' and vitality. The characters, too, havs been made more believable and sympathetic in the light of present conditions. There have been many great and memorable romances brought to the. screen but none more tender, more poignant nor more vividly, true to life than “Waterloo Bridge.” This is a simple human story of two young people desperately in love and caught in the merciless web of war when a lifetime must be telescoped into forty-eight hours. Its stars are Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. The characterisation of Myra brings Miss Leigh a new sweetness and charm and the chance to display hidden facets of her fascinating personality. As the hero, Roy Cronin, Taylor has been given the most mature and dynamically virile characterisation"of his career. The transition from the young officer in love to the self-contained man nearing middle age gives him greater scope than ever before.