ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 October 1942, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE —To-nicjht: “ Tl ’e ai; ’Em Rough” and “Mr and Mrs North.”

The excitement of the. prize ring and a murder plot to hi-jack a million dollars worth of black gold (oil) combine to give “Treat ’Em Rough, now showing at the Opera House 60 minutes of sure-fire action drama. The story tells how Eddie Albert as The Panama Kid, temporarily tosses his prize-fight mitts into the attic and forgets his quarrel with the Old Man long enough to rush back to the old home town. Object of the idea is io help ease the latter off’ the suspect list for several thousand missing truckloads of ms own company’s oil. “MR AND MRS NORTH”

Grade Allen virtually convicts her screen husband of murder, then saves him unexpectedly in “Mr and Mrs North," also showing at the Opera House. Her only clue, a lobster claw, Miss Allen inadvertently solves a mystery that bailies the police and almost sends her husband to prison, but before she gets around to that, there is a rare combination of mystery and comedy, which any audience will obviously relish from the first course to the lobster claw.

REGENT THEATRE—To-night: “Our Wife.”

Melvyn Douglas, lately associated with the racy, rowdy type of comedy, finds a refreshing new angle on comedy in “Our Wife,” showing at the Regent Theatre. Here we see Douglas as the bewildered male over whorn two women fight for possession. It’s the most exciting triangle that ever made Douglas run round in circles in his screen series of matrimonial mix-ups. Ruth Hussey and Ellen Drew are seen in the feminine leads, one using her head and the other, her arms, lips and eyes—while an embattled Melvyn Douglas uses his voice—to yell for help! John Hubbard, another comedy star of exceptional merit, adds much gaiety to a film which audiences will look upon with delight. Charles Coburn, currently the screen’s outstanding comedy character of his type, rates honours of his own. Excellent associate programme includes Sports Thrill, “Ali the Giant Killer,” “Screen Snapshots,” “Air Woman” and Paramount News.