ENTERTAINMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 May 1942, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT

OPERA HOUSE —Now Showing: “YOUNG PEOPLE”; also “DEAD MEN TELL.” Bubbling over with mirth and melody, and with Jack Oakle and Charlotte Greenwood sharing the fun, “Young People,” now showing at the Opera House has been heralded as the most enjoyable of all Shirley Temple’s 22 pictures. Boasting five new song hits, the stoory pattern concerns two small-time vaudeville entertainers, Oakie and Greenwood, who adopt Shirley. She grows up with them on the stage—but they decide the stage is not the place to raise children, so they retire to a small New England farm. Their attempts to be well-liked in the reticent town meet with rebuffs and sly pokes at which they are slow to take offence. The denouement comes when Shirley, in an attempt to put over a sophisticated revue at the annual school performance, is booed off the stage by the shocked and indignant parents.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

On Friday. Saturday and Monday evenings only, patrons will have a special entertainment treat when “Young People,” also the latest “Chan” series. “Dead Men Tell," starring Sidney Toler, will be screened. At the special children’s matinees on Saturday and Monday, “Young People” will be the main attraction, plus outstanding featurettes.

REGENT THEATRE—Now Showing "MAJOR BARBARA."

Now showing is “Major Barbara," from George Bernard Shaw's play. The greatest picture of 1942! George Bernard Shaw, introduces the characters, Wendy Hiller as Major Barbara —An earl’s granddaughter, sacrificing sables for sinners—collecting confessions that could only be whispered one woman to another. Rex Harrison as Adolphus Cusins —Greek scholar and ardent lover — Beneath his calm exterior, unscrupulous desire—A man of doubtful parentage and definite ambition. Robert Morley as Andrew Undershaft —Millionaire munitions manufacturer — Unshamed of his doubtful parentage And too busy to know how many children he had. Robert Newton as Bill Walker—Scoffer, renegade, bully, supreme egotist—lntoxicated by his own importance. Emlyn. Williams as Nobby Price —Self confessed sinner—Fraud, thief and hypocute— A wily rascal who confessed to beating his own mother to get a free hand. Sybil Thorndyke as The General A good woman, wholesome, honest, but highly ambitious—She took without a blush £lOO,OO0 —a joint soul-saving contribution from two expensive sinners. Marie Lohr as Lady Britomart—Autocratic matriarch—but beneath this frigid veneer —just a woman —jealous of her children’s affections —confounded by her husband’s amazing dual personality. Walter Hudd as Stephen Undershaft —Innocuous, bumptious png who chose his parents incongruously.