ENTERTAINMENTS
OPERA HOUSE —To-night: “Pirates on Horseback.’’ and “Don t Get Personal.”
“Pirates on Horseback,” showing at the Opera House to-night with William Boyd in the leading role, shuffles the elements of romance, comedy, and mystery, with the grim, and always exciting business of the manhunt. The action starts when Old California (Andy Clyde) inherits the Eldorado mine from a prospector who died without revealing the location of the shaft. Flanked by William Boyd and Russell Hayden, Clyde arrives to take up the hunt, and discovers that there is an heiress also, pretty Eleanor Stewart. Russell is fascinated by Miss Stewart, and Clyde soon yields to his passion for raising vegetables, but Boyd single-mindeaiy pursues the hunt for the mine until he discovers a mysterious message left by the old prospector. ,At t his point, Morris Ankrum, responsible for the murder of the prospector, injects himself into the action. The climax puts the mine safely into the possession of Clyde and the girl. DON'T GET PERSONAL” The rollicking new comedy set to music, “Don’t Get Personal,” with Hugh Herbert in the leading role, is also showing at the Opera House to-night. Herbert, who portrays the zaney heir to a pickle works, is the cause of a romantic mix-up involving four young people who work on his favourite radio programme. The love interest is complicated by the plotting of pickle works executives who want to bilk Herbert out of his inheritance.
REGENT THEATRE— To-niqht: “Married Bachelor.”
When a married man poses as a bachelor and an authority on marriage the situation promises a good many laughs, and with Robert Young as the “sucker” and Ruth Hussey as his pretty wife, they ably fulfil this promise in “Married Bachelor,” starring at the Regent Theatre. Young is bombarded with complications when the wrong horse wins and, in order to pay off his bet to a New York gangster, he poses as a bachelor and authority on marriage. Surprisingly enough the ladies of the nation take him to their hearts and he becomes the “heart-beat of the year.” Now, with a wife on the sidelines, this can be embarrassing. And it is to Young. Especially when Lee Bowman, his publisher, discovers the charm of the said wife. Things go from bad to worse, with a laugh accompanying each new complication. More headaches crop up when Young’s publisher falls in love with Ruth. Adding insult to injury Young hands out advice daily, to Bowman on how to win the girl—ignorant of the fact that he’s helping Bowman win his own wife from him.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 July 1942, Page 3
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