ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 September 1944, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—-Finally To-night: “Stardust on the Sage” and “The Spider Woman.” Tuesday: “The Light that Failed.”

Artist! Adventurer! Soldier! Lover! That was Dirk Helder! Fascinating, unforgettable; this character that only Rudyard Kipling could create, now comes to light in the picturisation. of Kipling’s novel, “The Light That Failed,” commencing at the Opera House to-morrow, with Ronald Colman in the principal role.

See the screen unfold drama that swings from the blazing sands of the Sudan to the charm of London in Spring; from the holocaust of war to drama of love and sacrifice! There’s crashing action—as thousands of fuzzy-wuzzies hurl themselves on the slender ranks of the British Square, in the most thrilling charge ever filmed! There’s tenderness as the picture unfolds the story of- lifelong romance between a man and a woman who are rivals for fame. There’s fascination—in the drama of a woman who takes her most terrible revenge against a man who scorned her love!

REGENT THEATRE—FinaIIy Tonight: “Flesh and Fantasy.” Tuesday: “Jeannie.”

Starring Barbara Mullen and Michael Redgrave, “Jeannie” commences at the Regent Theatre tomorrow. The entrancing story is about a Scots girl, -who has spent most of her life doing housework in her father’s house. When her father dies she inherits a small sum and goes oil to Vienna for a holiday, for no other reason but that she has heard “The Blue Danube Waltz.” On the way she meets Stanley (Michael Redgrave), a washing machine salesman, in whom she is particularly interested, because of all the things she hates il is washing sheets. In Vienna, ifcwever, she loses interest in Stanley

and fails in love with a foreign Count, who, when he hears she has come into a fortune, concludes she has inherited vast wealth and determines to marry her. When the money has gone and Jeannie has to tell the Count that her “fortune” has disappeared he very soon cold-shoulders her. She leaves Vienna in a hurry and returns to Scotland. She is no sooner back home than Stanley arrives, and by means of a washing machine inveigles her into marrying him.