ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1943, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE —Finally to-night: “Underground Agent” and “South of Santa Fe.” Friday: “On the Sunny Side” and “Escape from Hong Kong.”

Roddy McDowall has done it again, this time in a picture all his own “On the Sunny Side” commencing at the Opera House to-morrow. It is the human, heart stirring tale of a plucky little Briton sent to America for the “duration.” His life and experiences in a typical American home are sympathetically portrayed in a storv replete with laughs, thrills and tears. It is a touching scene when Roddy, the gallant little “Tommy,” speaks to his parents across the Atlantic in a trans-oceanic broadcast.

The action which took place in Hong Kong the week before the city was captured by the Japanese, and the part the British and the Americans took to combat the activities of Axis spies and fifth columnists is woven into the plot of “Escape From Hong Kong” commencing at the Opera House to-morrow, with Don Terry, Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine and Marjorie Lord in featured roles.

REGENT THEATRE: Finally Tonight: “Grand Central Murder.” Friday: “Take a Letter Darling.”

Something new in movie plots is offered in “Take a Letter Darling,” co-starring Rosalind Russell and Fred Mac Murray, which commences at the Regent Theatre on Friday. Miss Russell, a very successful advertising executive, hires Mac Murray as her secretary. Mac Murray knows nothing about shorthand or typing. He’s an artist, temporarily in the financial doldrums, but for the job he’s hired to do, he doesn’t have to know shorthand. He finds himself escorting Miss Russell around town, occasionally posing as her fiance, and always having to be nice to the jealous wives of prospective clients. Mac Murray and Miss Russell, of course, fall in love, but Rosalind won’t admit it. Riotous complications develop with the appearance of Macdonald Carey, a woman-hating tobacco magnate, and his man-hunting sister, Constance Moore, who goes after Mac Murray.