ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 September 1943, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE: To-night: “Lucky Legs” and “Night Monster."

The season’s merry musical comedy romance “Lucky Legs” starring Jinx Falkenburg and featuring Russell 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 production, in which she is slated to star; she meets a racketeer, who does his best to get his hands on the money; she falls in love with a young lawyer whom her benefactor’s spinster sisters hire in order to break the will. The racketeer has a “legitimate” claim to the dough, because it had been absconded from him in the first place; unfortunately, he can’t prove where he got it, although he does try to retrieve it by similar means. “NIGHT MONSTER” Shudders and mystery thrills dominate the action of “Night Monster,” latest of Universal’s famous horror 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 creepfest settings yet constructed for the camera.

REGENT THEATRE: To-night “Sky M urder.”

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 clotting 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. AUTHOR*&’EDITOR.

Mr. A. AV. Anderson who has just arrived from Australia will give a public address in the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Thursday evening at 7.39. Mr. Anderson is a distinguished author and editor as well as a forceful speaker. His wide experience and extensive travels make him popular with the public. In all centres large audiences have been held spell bound by his gripping-ad-dresses. An invitation is extended to all.