ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1943, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

'opera HOUSE: Finally to-night: “Those Kids from Town’ and “Riders of the Timberland.” Tuesday: “Here Comes Happiness” and “The Story of the Vatican.” : A warm comedy romance about, a girl who found that an unpretentious Ijfe meant a happy one, commences at the Opera House to-morrow in “Here Comes Happiness." : Coles gives a grand performance 'us Jessica Vance, who doesn’t care lor her hand-picked fiance, played by Richard. Ainley. She leaves home and : takes a small apartment, where she falls in love with Chet Madden, portrayed by Edward Norris. < Norris gives a realistic characterisation of an ordinary fellow, with simple ambitions and an extreme dislike for insincerity. When he learns that Jessica secretly obtained .£5OO . from her father in order to get him a 'safer job, his present one being very dangerous, he becomes bitterly jealous because he thinks she is two-tim-ing him with a rich elderly man. I STORY OF THE VATICAN ‘ The eyes of the world are turned to-day toward the Vatican to, a degree unparalleled in modern history; the appearance of the March of Time .film “The Story of the Vatican” which commences at the Opera House ' to-mbrrow, can hardly have been more timely. Here is an experience that corncs once in a lifetime —the inside story of the smallest Sovereign State in the world where peace still exists in a world of war. Even if it were possible for you to visit the Vatican, you would not see what this film shows, for The March of Time’s cameras have gone to many places within the Vatican where visitors are excluded. Before you are the great architectural and 'artistic treasures of the Vatican and the governmental and business activities of the Papal State. You see the splendours of the Basilica of St. Peter’s, the murals of Michaelangelo in the Sistine Chapel and the masteri pieces in the Vatican galleries, and' you visit the crypts beneath the Cathedral where the Popes are buried the- Vatican radio station, the post office, and the tiny State’s stores and shops. Crowning those revelations The Marell of Time brings to the screen a vivid enthralling series of intimate motion picture studies of His Holiness Pope Pius XII.