ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 April 1943, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE: To-night: “Mr. Celebrity” and “Father Steps Out.’ If you crave real persons in a picture that’ll make you laugh, yet tug at your heartstrings, you have a pleasant evening in store in the race thrill drama “Mr. Celebrity,” showing at the Opera House. There are Francis X. Bushman, original glamour boy of the gaslight era, Clara Kimball Young, the movies itrst real glamour girl, Jim Jeffries the toughest heavyweight boxing champion of them all, playing themselves in the film, not to mention a dozen other veterans playing fictitious toles. The romantic lead falls to a comparative newcomer, Janies Seay, who drops in on “Celebrity Farm,” home ’ of all the ex-champions, with his t voung nephew, played by Buzzy r Henry. Seay, an expert track veter- : inarian, is unable to earn a decent t living, because he is driven pillar-to-i post in a desperate effort to escape the detectives of Buzz’s wealthy grandt parents, William Halligan and Laura ■ Treadwell, who believe the life of the racing folk is not for their grandson. t -When financial reverses threaten i the security of “Celebrity Farm, f Seay attempts to condition and race , a lame thoroughbred, “Mr. Celeb- : rity” after whom the film is titled. Doing this, he falls in love with pretty , Doris Day, who, as a struggling young 1 writer, is preparing the biographies 5 of the personalities on the farm. i REGENT THEATRE: Now Showing: > “Forty Thousand Horsemen.” > A picture to thrill the hearts of f every Australasian. The immortal story of the Australian Light Horse, and the New Zealand Mounted Rifles , in Palestine. Thrilling entertainment, , 'drama, action, adventure, romance 1 and humour, with a brilliant cast, ? headed by Betty Bryant, Grant Tayjor, “Chips” Rafferty and Pat TwoRill. A magnificently impressive, an . heroic spectacle which baffles deJ scription. i '-"""."r!: