ENTERTAINMENTS
OPERA HOUSE— To-night: “The Silver Queen.” Described as the most beautiful, most dangerous and most daring woman on the Barbary Coast “The Silver Queen” comes to the Opera House to-night. , , Priscilla Lane is both competent and attractive in the role of a socialite daughter of a wealthy fatner (Eugene Pallette) whose debts she undertakes to pay, when his gambling life ends with more creditors than friends on the doorstep. She then becomes the glamorous gambling woman, The Silver Queen in ’Frisco. George Brent has the role of another and handsome gambler, who crosses the girl’s path in the palmy days. Bruce Cabot in the role as the girl’s (lance, is a cad, who appropriates a mine deed, given her by Brent (who won it from her father), also the money she sends him some time later from the Silver Queen, to repay the creditors in full, through Cabot, before going through with any marriage. Brent finally goes to find her as also does Cabot, and the three wind up in Nevada City where the two men fight it out with fists, chairs, ornaments and a gun for the girl each has wanted so long.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1945, Page 7
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195ENTERTAINMENTS Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1945, Page 7
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