ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 April 1943, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE —To-night: “Home in Wvomin.” Gene Autry, screen’s most popular western singing star who has thrilled you in all his previous hits, thrills you anew in his latest production, “Home in Wyomin” now showing at the Opera House with Smiley .Burnette and Fay McKenzie in leading supporting roles. Packed with excitement, laughter and action the film also contains five songs entitled “Any Bonds To-day”; “Thinking To-night of My Blue Eyes ; “Modern Design”; “Twilight in Ola Wyomin’’; and “Clementine.” “EYES OF THE UNDERWORLD” ! — ... , ( Action melodrama devotees are promised a full quota of entertainment in “Eyes of the Underworld,” showing at the Opera House. . Starring Richard Dix, the picture has a- distinguished supporting cast. The story turns the spotlight full upon the vicious and far-flung operations of motor car theft gangs since Uncle Sam clamped war-time restrictions on the sale of autos and tyres. Dix portrays a two-fisted police chief who is threatened with exposure as an ex-convict when he insists on ridding his city of the crooks. Chaney, it is said, brings another spectacular characterisation to the screen in his role of the police chief’s stir-crazy chauffeur. ; The production is high-lighted by a thrilling gun battle between . the law enforcement officers, led by ( Dix, and the underworld forces, heaaed by Lloyd Corrigan, who hides his criminal activities under the shield of his presidency of the city council. REGENT THEATRE: To-night: “A. Yank in the R.A.F.” “Never . . have so many owed so much to so few!” These famous words show how England feels about her protecting eagles, the valiant! R A.F. All realise that without the, stamina, the vigilance, the courage ‘ and. the skill of this handful of pick- j ed men, England would surely havei fallen. But all too little is known 1 about these heroes of World War 11. “A Yank in the R.A.F.,” far from a glorification of the men of the R.A.F., is a picturisation of them at work and at play, an attempt to bring them to the screen just as they

, are in life. Seen through the eyes ,of the Yank, who is portrayed by (Tyrone Power, and Betty Grable as ■ his sweetheart, the picture brings inIto focus the things that make the i R.A.F. whatlit is to-day. I Lord Beaverbrook, former British I Air Minister! gave his approval to the filming of actual air battles over ' Germany. 'lt also includes everything from the take-off of an R.A.F. : squadron to the actual scenes of the bombing of Berlin and other German ' cities; dog lights in the clouds over 'the Channel [and the attacks on the 1 German invasion ports. It was the : desire of the Air Ministry that ah scenes showing the work of the ! R.A.F. be absolutely authentic. Highi lighting the thrills is the heroic evacuation of Dipkirk.