ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1944, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—-To-night: “The Underpup” and “One Night in the Tropics.” A new personality, Gloria Jean, appears in the title role of “The Underpup” showing at the Opera House to-night, in which the 11-year-old singing actress shares starring honours with Robert Cummings and Nan Grey.' No less than fifteen featured “names” are in the line-up, including Beula Bondi, Virginia Weidler, ~ Margaret Lindsay. C. Aubrey Smith, Billy Gilbert, Anil Gillis, Raymond Walburn, Raul Cavanagh, Frank Jenks, Ernest Truex, Samuel S. Hinds, Dickie Moore, Shirley Mills, Doris Lloyu, a new musical comedy team, Billy i-ien-hart and Kenneth Brown, and others. .“ONE NIGHT IN~THE TROPICS”. All the colourful atmosphere of the tropics and all the musicianship of the noted composer Jerome Kern went into the making of “One Night in the Tropics,” showing at the Opera House to-night. Starring Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Robert Cummings as key figures in an impressive cast. The picture deals with the romantic complications of two couples, arising when Jones sells his best friend (Cummings) a inilliondollar “love insurance” policy under-' writing an impending marriage. REGENT THEATRE—To-night: “Hitler’s Madman.” “Hitler’s Madman,” showing at the Regent Theatre to-night, is the blood-stirring story of Lidice, the little Bohemian village the Nazis erased from the face of the earth in a world-shocking war incident during the time Hitler’s armies were over-running Europe. While, as would be expected, shudders predominate, the story is firmly and beautifully bound together with strong human qualities, notably in the love theme portrayed against the background of bloodshed by Alan Curtis and Patricia Morrison. Curtis as Karel Vavra, young Czech recently of the R.A.F., and Miss Morrison as Jarmila Hanks, his sweetheart, are brought together as . the couple who conspired in the asassination. of Reinhard Heydrich, “The Hangman,” vividly portrayed by John Carradine. It was this assassination that heralded the shocking Nazi reprisals under Heinrich Himmler hated Gestapo head, portrayed by Howard Freeman. From “Hitler’s Madman” can be gained a partial realisation of what has happened to the defenceless countries Hitler has swallowed up in his quest for world domination.