ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 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 010 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. n ~ 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, headed 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 picked men, England would surely have fallen. But all too little is known 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 into focus the things that make the R.A.F. what it is to-day. ■ Lord Beaverbrook, former British Air Minister, gave his approval to the filming of actual air battles over Germany. It 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 fights in the clouds over the Channel and the attacks on the German invasion ports. It was the desire of the Air Ministry that all scenes showing the work of the R.A.F. be absolutely authentic. Highlighting the thrills is the heroic evacuation of Dunkirk. LECTURE~aF COBDEN

To-morrow evening, in the School Gymnasium, Cobden, Mr- W. A. Stewart will continue his popular addresses on topics of current interest. He will show how the course of history has been followed to the minutest detail in the experience of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, as it was shown last Sunday evening relative to Turkey. The accurate fulfilment of these prophecies stands as a constant challenge to the sceptic, and an undeniable testimony to the truthfulness of Bible predictions.