ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 July 1942, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE: “Meet Boston Blackie” and “Three Men from Texas.”

Boston Blackie, that suave rascal of “Get-Rich-Quick- Wallingford” fame, is back to fill the night with terror, and your heart with chills! With Coney Island’s glittering thrills I for a background, the celebrated cracksman cracks down on dangerous foreign agents. Mystery over Coney Island, spies in a freak, show, murder in the “Tunnel of Love,” when fiction’s suavest scoundrel unmasks a sideshow of freaks serving as a “front” for enemy agents. With Chester Morris playing the title role, “Meet Boston Blackie,” now showing at the Opera House, has a strong supporting cast which includes Rochelle Hudson, Richard Lane, and Constance Worth. “Hopalong Cassidy” rides again in the most thrilling adventure of his career in the new Clarence E. Mulford romance, “Three Men From Texas,” also showing at the Opera blouse, with William Boyd in the starring role, supported by Russell “Lucky” Hayden, and Andy Clyde and Esther Estrella. Based on California’s mostthrilling period, the film takes you into the notorious land grabbing days, by eastern speculators when a man’s home was his only as long as lie was able to keep shooting for it, and the law was directed by the speed of a man’s trigger finger.

REGENT THEATRE: “international Lady."

Superb drama of intrigue, thrilling suspense, top-notch acting, brilliant direction and a smooth production are highlights of the new Edward Small spy melodrama, “International Lady,” which co-stars George Brent and Ilona Massey. It is a drama of wartime intrigue in which a goldenvoiced concert singer upsets first the plans of England and America and then does as much for the schemes of the wily sabotage ring. Miss Massey, in this role, acquits herself brilliantly on two scores—as a singer and as a dramatic actress. George Brent inevitably associated with distinguished histrionics, is top-notch as a G-man, who combines sleuthing and love-making with amazing skill. Among others deserving special mention are Basil Rathbone as a gentleman from Scotland Yard. Gene Lockhart, who turns up as a wealthy candy manufacturer, owner of a vast Long Island estate, which happens to be a screen for the schemes of a sabotage ring, Martin Kosleck, who plays a member of the gang, and George Zucco, also in a meanie role.