ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 February 1942, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE —Now Showing: , “Money and The Woman" and | '■The Slack Cat." Ever since people started reading) Edgar Alien Poe’s great mystery; stories, their thirst for anything! mysterious 'has been unquencnable. j Realising that his patrons demand I thrilling movies, Mr A. Beban. oi' tiiei Opera "'House, announces that he) is now showing “Money and tiicj Woman," a brand new kind, of) movie mystery, starring Jeilreyi Lynn, and Brenda Marshall. The; story concerns a desperate attempt to) loot a bank of 90,000 dollars. Jeffrey ( Lynn, playing the role of a young! bank’executive. becomes involved in; the case and is forced to solve the; crime in order to clear his own name.-: Ho is helped by Brenda Marshall wi \°) is Sion as the wile of one of the bank . clerks. Suspecting ner own husband,) played by Roger Pryor, ol implication ;■ m the case. Miss Marshall does her; best to I.tip Lynn track down the master-mind back of the gang _ ol| criminals. When his identity is fin-1 ally revealed, the entire audience aie; left gasping with surprise. “THE SLACK CAT." I Replete with assorted murders, al large order of sinister suspects, a| hundred howling cats and a haunted) house, together of course with a rip- | roaring rain and thunderstorm. “The Elack Cat" is also showing, at the Opera House. The; story centres about the sinister Winslow" estate, the wealthy old mistress of which has the obsession for providing a home for stray cats. She is suddenly murdered alter reading her will. The telephone is) mysteriously disconnected, and the) place is marooned by a raging rain) and thunderstorm. Meanwhile two) more murders occur. REGENT THEATRE—-To-night: ' “WASHINGTON M ELODRAMA. ’j To-day, all eyes are turned to-) wards Washington in the onrush of world affairs—but there is another side to the whirling American capital. There are human lives—people pursuing happiness, grim mvsterics, strange intrigues, lost to-day as the headlines focus on international affairs. These you will see against the thundering background of a nation preparing for Democracy’s defence, in “Washington Melodrama," commencing on Tuesday at the Regent Theatre. Here is a detective mystery unlike any you have ever witnessed. A beautiful girl is found dead. There is only one clue —a lost glove. From this is built up a ramification of intrigue, blackmail and mystery. Settings are elaborate, including the roaring oilices of a tabloid newspaper,' reproductions of noted spots in Washington, a night club in which a great’ glass tank rises from the floor so that the audience, given fish poles, may “fish" for beautiful girls, a millionaire’s home and modernistic apartments. Thrills include a strange murder and capture of a feminine amateur detective by a murderer, and spectacle is added by lavish night "club sequences with musical numbers.