ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 August 1943, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE —To-night: “One Dangerous Night” and “Bombs over Burma.”

Filmdom’s most famous rogue, The Lone Wolf, is back again, living .a lifetime of adventure and romance m the thrilling new melodrama, “One Dangerous Night,” now showing at the Opera House, with Warren William in the leading role. There is not just one woman to get the Lone Wolf into trouble; there are five! The girls are Marguerite Chapman, Mona Barrie, Tala Birell, Anna Savage and Marguerite Hayes. They are lovely, lively and remarkably innocent, even if one of them did plan to leave her husband and elope with a blackmailer, even if a second did plan to rob that “gentleman,” even if the remaining three are in a room with his newly-created corpse. And, of course, there is the Lone Wolf and Jamison, his perfect man Friday as portrayed by Eric Bl ore. They are found by the police prowling about the house and trying to look as if they belonged there, in order to give themselves time enough to pick up a clue or two to the murder.

Timely in theme, the actionpacked, suspenseful melodrama, “Bombs Over Burma,” is also showing at the Opera House. Anna May Wong has the leading role, that of a school teacher, who is despatched to the interior by the Chinese Secret Service to find out how the Japs get the news of Burma Road convoys which they bomb with such accuracy that it is obvious they must be in receipt of information about all transport movements. The secret of the information leak comes to light when the bus she travels in is compelled to stop at a monastery for repairs. From here the film springs into action, which is quite exciting.

REGENT THEATRE—FinaIIy Tonight: “Swamp Water.” Thursday: “To the Shores of Tripoli.”

As timely and as thrilling a subject for a picture as is possible to find is the plot basis for “To the Shores of Tripoli,” which commences at the Regent Theatre on Thursday. Taking a raw recruit in the person of John Payne, the film puts him through all the paces which the U.S. Marine undergoes to emerge a fighting “leatherneck.” For romantic interest, none other than beautiful Maureen O’Hara in the role of a Marine nurse was selected to provide the love interest with handsome John Payne. Randolph Scott gives the best performance of his career as the hard-boiled sergeant who make life both interesting and miserable for Payne. Most of the scenes were filmed at San Diego Marine Base, and hundreds of enlisted men took part, in the production. _____