ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1944, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE —To - night: “The Underpup’’ and “One Night in the T ropics.” A new personality, Gloria Jean, anpears in the title role of “The Underpup” showing at the Opera House to-night, in which the 11i year-old singing actress shares star- | ring 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, Ann i Gillis, Raymond Walburn, Paul Cavanagh, Frank Jenks, Ernest Truex, Samuel S. Hinds, Dickie Moore, Shirley Mills, D’oris Lloyd, a new musical comedy team, Billy Lenhart 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 malting 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 milliondollar “love insurance” policy underwriting an impending marriage. REGENT THEATRE—To-night: “Hitler’s Madman.” i . ... “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. RUNANGA BALL. With the commencement of Winter in earnest, all dance lovers are beginning to select their “Winter quarters,” and Runanga offers a splendid-regu-lar feature in the Welcome Home Committee’s regular Ball events, aimed at raising funds for returning soldiers. The Miners’ Hall is well heated, and there is every convenience lor an enjoyable evening: Billy Williams’ Orchestra, a good supper, a two guinea waltzing competition and a half guinea Monte Carlo. For Greymouth' patrons, (Joburn’s bus will run to Greymouth after the ball. Runanga people will be establishing a good Winter custom by attending these regular entertainments, and at the same time help in providing funds for local boys on their return.