ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 June 1944, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE —Finally To-night: “Hai’i'igan's Kid" and “Corregidor." ' Tuesday: “Cowboy in Manhattan'’ and “Jungle Siren. Romrnce and suspense behind the scenes' of' a great Broadway musical moducl'on are excitingly dramatised hi “Cowboy in Manhattan” co-star-ring Robert Paige and Langioid, commencing at the Opera House toTwo eminent comedians, Leon Errol and Walter Catlett, supply h!kirious sequences, and Jennifer Bolt will Im seen in a prominent role. The plcime deads with the tribulations of a noted play producer whose show is intended to glorify the State ot Texas, Miss Langford appears as the sinking star, and complications begin when a young Texas tunesmith, portrayed by Paige, insists upon having two of his compositions introduced m the project. The publicity stunt backfires and the star is believed to have been, kidnapped before romance saves the day arid starts the enterprise off io a spectacular opening.

IUNOI.E SIREN"

A sensational new combination reaches the screen in the teaming dl Ann Curio (famous burlesque queen) at id Busier Crabbe, popular Western star in "Jungle Siren,” a story of adventure in the African jungle, commencing al the Opera House tomorrow. REGENT THEATRE —Finally Tonight: Presenting Lily Mars.” Tuesday: "Lost Horizon.” Commencing al the Regent Theatre on Tuesday for a return season is “Lost Horizon.” starring Ronald Coleman, Jan? Wyatt and H. B. Warner. Opening in a whirlwind of excitement in wliicn a handful of beleaguered whites flee massacre at the guns of Oriental bandit-rebels, the drama takes its characters through the bitter chaos symbolic of the world we know into the peace and beauty of Shangri-La, the world we dream about. Hidden high in the Himalayas, guided by an intelligence centuries old, this community -has solved life’s problem of harmony and brotherhood. The piece is filled" with an inspirational philosophy, but there is personified drama 100. For the love of Ronald Coleman and Jane Wyatt, the comedy of Everett Horton and Thomas Mitchell, the menace of

Margo and John Howard, the tragic figure of Camille-like Isabel Jewell are all very human. The beauties of the pictured Shangri-La with its allpervading amosphere of peace, stand in vivid contrast to the Shots of the wind-swept wastes, ever bleak in a desolate shroud of snow and nothing-