ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1943, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

j OPERA HOUSE: To-night: “Lucky ; Legs” and “Might Monster.”

i The season’s merry musical com- ' edv romance “Lucky Leg’s” starring iJinx Falkc-nburg and featuring Rus- ■ sell Hayden, Leslie Brooks and .Kay ‘ Harris is showing at the Opera House. , .Miss Falkenburg is the owner of 'the “Lucky Legs” of the title. Appearing as a chorine whose pulchritude attracts the attention of a Broadway playboy, she suddenly inherits from him a million dollars and a lot of trouble. She “angels” a Broadway j production, in which she is slated to star; she meets a racketeer, who-does I his best to get his hands on the I money; she fails in love with a young I lawyer 1 whom her benefactor’s spirrister sisters hire in order to break I the will. The racketeer has a “legiti- ’ mate” claim to the dough, because it jhad been absconded from him in the Ifirst place; unfortunately, he can’t i prove where he got it, although he • does try to retrieve it by similar ' means. i “NIGHT MONSTER” ? Shudder's and mystery thrills dominate the action of “Night Monster,” latest of Universal’s famous norror dramas, also showing at the Opera House. | Here is a shivery masterpiece among those dark and forbidding shock films which always fill theatre seats with patrons and patrons with gasps. The story moves rapidly through a series of murders which take place in one of the gloomiest creepiest settings yet constructed for the camera.

REGENT THEATRE: To-night “Sky i\i it rcler.”

Laughs, mystery and thrills strike home in rapid succession in Walter Pidgeon’s latest adventure as Nick Carter in “Sky Murder” which is showing at the Regent Theatre. Pidgeon is assigned to run down a band of international criminals plotting against the Government. A man is murdered on a luxury airliner and a beautiful girl is suspected. Pidgeon clears up the mystery and catches the ringleader between hilarious adventures in flirtation which land the susceptible sleuth into all manner of funny situations. The picture introduces to the screen a glamorous new personality in Karen Verne, blonde discovery from England. Pidgeon is debonair and forceful. A new slant of feminine comedy is provided by Joyce Compton as the flighty but efficient feminine sleuth, and Donald -Meek with a pocketful of bees and derby hat provides many more laughs.