ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 June 1944, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

(oP'-'RA HOUSE— Finally To-night: I ' “South American George.” Friday: “Broadway” and “To-mor-row We Live.”

The extraordinary experience of beinf his own biographer on the screen has fallen to George Raft. The vehicle by which Raft’s own slice of life story is exploited is “Broadway, the thrillingly melodramatic film play of “the roaring ’2o’s,” commencing at the Opera House to-morrow. Raft, as a hoofer with an overpowering ambition to be tops in his profession, heads the cast with Pat O’Brien, as the “toughesj; cop on Broadway,” as his co-star in the film adaptation of the stage play hit. “Broadway,” in its screen transition, is Raft’s own life story. “TO-MORROW WE LIVE” That screen lovely Jean. Parker proves that she is also a most competent dramatic actress in “To-mor-row We Live,” a stirring story of the American drama at the Opera House to-morrow (Friday). Miss Parker plays the part of Julie, daughter of the owner of a lunchroom on a desert highway. The dramatic action develops swiftly as a dangerous underworld character with psychopathic delusions of power, played by Ricardo Cortez, attempts to possess Julie, using his sinister power over her dad who is using his desert place as a hide-out for “hot” rubber tyres. The drama is manysided, with the girl in an emotional vortex as she tries to protect her clad.

REGENT THEATRE—FinaIIy Tonight: “South of Suez.” Friday: “/Above Suspicion,”

Action and thrills follow fast on the heels of Joan Crawford and Fred Mac Murray as they combine in “Above Suspicion,” commencing at the Regent Theatre on Friday. Placed in the background of prewar Paris and Southern Germany, the film exposes the extent of Nazi espionage being practised even then, and shows what the British did to counteract its influence. Miss Crawford and Mac Murray are honeymooners who are asked by the British Intelligence to undertake a. perilous secret mission in Central Europe just prior to the outbreak of war. Their hair-breadth escapes from the Gestapo, involvement in the murder of a Nazi officer, and the rescue of a British agent (Reginald Owen) among other things cram the action. Felix Bressart is outstanding as, a member of the underground. Conrad Veidt disregards his typicalvillain role and portrays a member of the German underground. Basil Rathbone is incredibly “slimy” as the Nazi spy who meets his just deserts in a spectacular climax.

MAORI ADZES There are on show in the window .of the Grey Power Board, Mackay Street, five nephrite Maori adzes. One of these, loaned by Mr J. Horrack of Greymouth, is a perfectly finished adze obtained from a shingle bar in the Grey River. Mr D. Burt, of Ruby Creek, has deposited an unfinished adze, which illustrates the Maori method of sawing. There is also a good quality adze found near Lake Brunner and loaned by Master Reginald Skelton, of Gladstone. Another is like a pakeha axe in profile showing the typical adze form of the Ngai Tahu people; this is presented by Mr E. Kehoe. The last comes from Murchison, near the junction of the Nel-son-Marlborough routes into Westland. There are also two small adzes manufactured from bowenite, also a large curved pendant (Tautau) of the same material which was found near Lake Wanaka on the Haast Pass

route to Westland. There are nine argillite adzes, large, small and dium, and one chisel from Mrs W. Baty, Coal Creek. Amongst the others from localities ranging from D’Urville Island to Hokitika there is a very large argillite adze deposited by Mr H. Lament, Greymouth, and another from Ruby Creek sent in by Mr D. Burt; also" a small adze of the moa hunter type from Miss Sylvia Mclntyre, Cobden. Argillite js the material used before the greenstone was discovered, and it is thought that these older implements, were fashioned and used by the moa hunters. Local holders of other Maori artifacts who may wish to place them' on loan with the Museum will be welcome, and such could be left with

Messrs Kehoe and Barrowman, honorary supervisors. Ownership in such articles would, of course, remain with the donors.