ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1946, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE: To-night: “Headin’ For God’s Country.”

An adroit mixture of red-blooded action and interesting character delineation is contained in the romantic drama “Headin’ For God’s Country,” showing at the Opera House to-night. ' William Lundigan plays the part of a young prospector, down on his luck, who finds himself in the remote village of Sunivak, Alaska. The canny inhabitants mistrust the “Stranger.” Higgins, the local storekeeper, is particularly annoyed when Lundigan beats up his son for'mistreating a dog, and is instrumental in having the young man put in prison. To get even with .Higgins and the other villagers, he takes advantage of the fact that the local printer, Clem Adams, gets drunk, and gains access to his printing press, where he prints a phoney copy of a Seattle newspaper, in which he headlines the news that the U.S. is at war with Japan (though it is not yet December 7, 1941). The de-, nouement is novel and exciting, and it would mar the pleasure of seeing the film were it told here, but let it be said that the story grips from start to finish. Others in the cast include Virginia Dale, Harry Davenport, and Addison Richards'.

FA'GENT THEATRE.— To-night: “Fiddler's Three,” starring Tommy THnder. 1 ‘

“Fiddler’s Three,” starring Tommy Trinder and showing at the Regent Theatre tonight, is a gay musical, in a setting of Ancient Rome. The story is about two sailors (Tommy Trinder and Sonny Hale), and a Wren (Diana Becker), who become “pixilated” at Stonehenge, and in accordance with an ancient legend are whisked back to Rome in Nero’s days. Hectic adventures and highly amusing scenes folow each other in close succession. Tommy wise-cracks, sings and dances through a riot of fun and Roman games, out-Mirandaing Car-

men at one moment, flirting with Empress Poppaea the next, auctioning Sonny Hale, dressed up as an alluring slave girl, and giving Nero some interesting- glimpses of the fu-

ture by remembering a. thing or two about history. His remarkable “prophesies” so impress Nero that he is elevated to the rank of Court Soothsayer. The fun, helped along by

Frances Day as Nero’s wife, Elizebeth Welch, Mary Clare and crowds of lovely slave girls is continuous, there being not one dull moment in the whole film. ’ .