ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1945, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE: To-night: “Sweet Rosie O’Grady,” in technicolour. There never was a girl like Rosie! You remember —Rosie O’Grady, they called her. And now her adventures are depicted in the new technicolour hit, showing at the Opera House, entitled “Sweet Rosie O’Grady”—and is she ever a honey! Who plays Rosie? None other than the Army’s favourite pin-up girlblonde, beautiful Betty Grable, the gal with shapely legs, out of this world voice and a smile that can defrost even the iciest heart. Starred with Betty, America’s favourite, are Robert Young and Adolphe Menjou. and in supporting roles are Reginald Gardiner, Virginia Grey, Phil Regan, Sig Ruman, Alan Dinehart, and many, many more—all popular favourites and all perfectly cast. Betty is seen as the toast of London who, as she is about to win her Duke, is expressed by Reporter Young as an ex-Brooklyn entertainer. How she gets even makes for top-notch entertainment. In a musical, it’s the songs that count, and in “Sweet Rosie O’Grady” there are melodies that are headed for top poularity, including “My Heart Tells Me,” “Goin’, to the Country Fair,” “The Wishing Waltz,” “My Sam,” and the theme song “Sweet Rosie O’Grady.” As for the dance numbers, they are to quote previewers, “dream confections.” For one of your best night’s entertainments in a theatre, don’t fail to see “Sweet Rosie O’Grady.” REGENT THEATRE: To-niqht “Tender Comrade,” starring Ginger Rogers. “Tender Comrade” starring Ginger ■ Rogers, showing at the Regent Theatre to-night, is an appealing

storv of the girls who are left behind when their men go off to war; girls who have only their romances to look, back on, and their futures to look forward to —but with heart-breaking jobs to be done in the present. Miss Rogers plays the part of Jo Jones, who, when her young husband, Chris (Robert Ryan) is called into the army, insists on taking a hand in winning the war herself by taking a job in a big ’plane, factory. Three of the other war wives with whom Jo eats lunch discuss their troubles in getting a place to live. The foursome winds

lip by pooling their resources, renting a large old-fashioned house and engaging a housekeeper. The experiences of the- quartette in adjusting themselves to community living and in settling their personal troubles form an interesting background to the love story of Jo and Chris.