ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 May 1945, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—Finally tonight: “Thoroughbreds.” T o- morrow (Friday)? “Always in My Heart.”

The new attraction at the Opera House, “Always in My Heart,” commencing to-morrow (Friday), will bid fair to go down in screen history, not only as -a thoroughly delightful picture of family life, but also as the picture which introduced Gloria Warren to the film public. For a 15-year-cld Miss Warren has a singing voice that is pure gold, ancl a completely captivating personality. Kay Francis, and Walter Huston head the cast with Gloria Warren, and Frankie Thomas; Patty Hale, Una O’Connor and Sidney Blackmer are featured. Borrah Mi'nnevitch provides some tuneful interludes.

Huston, as the father, is in jail, and at his insistence, his wife (played by Miss Francis), is divorced from him and his children believe him to be dead. A wealthy man is in love with her and anxious io marry her, and take care of her and the children. She can’t make up her mind, and seeks Huston’s advice. He tells her to accept, and hides from her the fact that he has been pardoned. Meanwhile, the son of the family (Frankie Thomas) is completely won over to the idea of having a stepfather, particularly after he is pre’sented with a new car. The daughter, who has discovered that the “Professor” is really her father, and that he is leaving town that night, taking a boat to San Diego, decides to go with him. Finding that she has missed the boat, she takes her brother’s speedboat to catch up with it.

REGENT THEATRE—Now Showing: “This is the Army.”

“This is the Army,” the army’s own musical show that was so great it had to be put on film for the whole world to see, commences at the Regent Theatre to-night. Written by Irving Berlin, and filmed in technicolour, “This is the Army” is said to be the greatest vaudeville show of all time. To make the show possible, talent .scouts covered the army camps from coast to coast of America, and found 350 boys accomplished in every phase of the show business. The original show, with the addition of a lavish cast of stars, including George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Ronald Regan, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Charles Butterworth and Kate Smith, and radio stars Frances Langford and Gertrude Niesen now conies to the screen, giving everybody an opportunity of seeing and hearing the show that was “raved about” from one end of America to the other. The War Department lent Sergeant Joe Louis, heavyweight champion, for story purposes, and to head the production number, “What the well dressed man in Harlem will wear.”