ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1945, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. —To-night: “Top Man” and “Tarzan’s Desert Mystery.”

Praised as one of the most entertaining comedy dramas of the season “Top Man” is showing at the Opera House.

Co-starred in the picture are Donald O’Connor, Susanna Foster, Lillian Gish. Richard Dix, and Peggy Ryan. Donald O’Connor plays the part of a resourceful youngster who becomes the head of the family after his dad accepts a Navy commission. Susanna Foster is seen as Donald's girl ITiend and sings several numbers during musical sequences of the story. Dix has the “lather” role opposite Miss Gish, whose screen appearance will be welcomed.

“TARZAN’S DESERT MYSTERY”

Adventure lovers have one of the greatest treats the screen has offered them in “Tarzan’s Desert Mystery,” showing at the Opera House. Johnny “Tarzan” Weissmuller and Johnny “Boy” Sheffield are this time out of the jungle, tangling with Nazi agents around the desert capital of an Arab sheik. They join forces with a beautiful American girl, played by Nancy Kelly. She poses as a stranded chorus girl, but is working with a neighbouring sheik to enlist the local ruler in a campaign against enemy agents. The foe : s cunning us well as ruthless, and has Tarzan imprisoned and the girl condemned to die on a false charge of murd'ering the sheik's son. Tarzan’s escape and thrilling rescue of the beauty concludes 'an exciting drama.

REGENT THEATRE— To-night: “A Guy Named Joe,” starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunn.

Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunn, two great screen favourites, arc starred together in “A Guy Named Joe,” showing at the Regent Theatre to-night. The unusual theme based on the legend that pilots never die. but return’ to guide the fledgling airmen who carry on in their stead is beautiful] worked out and will leave audiences impressed and with a feeling of having had. contact with things supernatural. It is a story of a new kind, thrilling with its spectacular aerial battles, stimulating with its warm human touches, and highly, entertaining. “A Guy Named Joe” is any man in’the Air Force, and the guy in this instance is Pete Sandige (Spencer Tracy). Miss Dunn is a pilot in the ferry command. When Pete is killed bombing a carrier he returns from Airmens’ Heaven Io guide the fortunes of young Van Johnson. After Johnson meets and falls in -love with Miss Dunn her love for Tracy is fulfilled. An. unusual supporting cast includes Ward Bond as Tracy’s pal, and Lionel Barrymore as the General.