ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 July 1946, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. —Finally To-night: “Santa Fe Trail.” Next attractraction (Tuesday): “Murder, My Sweet.”

Thrill follows thrill in breathless succession in “Murder, My Sweet,” starring Dick Powell, Clail’e Trevor, and Anne Shirley. This grippingstory of murder, blackmail and romance, commences at the Opera House to-morrow (Tuesday). Dick Powell has the role of a hardboiled private detective, Marlowe, who undertakes an apparently routine job of finding the former sweetheart of a big half-witted ex-convict, “Moose” Malloy (Milke Mazurki). Claire Trevor plays a Mrs Grayle, young and beautiful wife of an elderly collector of jade. Anne Shirley is Ann Grayle, the wealthy old man’s daughter of his first wife. Marlowe’s investigations on behalf of his client, Malloy, lead hftn to the lair of a quack psychologist and blackmailer, Jules Amthor (Otto Kruger), who has Mrs Grayle in his clutches and wants to get possession of a costly jade necklace as his price of silence. Three murders and a suicide complicate matters for Marlow before he finally clears up the mystery and convinces a somewhat antagonistic police department that he has nothing to do with the crimes. The unusually strong supporting cast includes Otto Kruger as a suave blackmailer; Mike Mazurki as a dangerous and gigantic ex-convict who wants Powell to find his old sweetheart; Miles Mander as the rich man, and Douglas Walton as the blackmailer’s chief tool.

REGENT THEATRE. —Finally Toniight: “For You Alone,” starring Lesley Brook. Commencing Tomorrow: “Hangover Square,” starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell and George Sanders.

.Reaching new heights of frightening mystery and strange emotion, “Hangover ’ Square,” starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell and George Sanders, commences at the Regent Theatre to-morrow. For this new supper thiller, every blood-chilling trick of the trade, plus an horrific score of new ones are used to produce the most utterly unusual and fascinating, edge-of-the-seat film excitement of the year. Laird Cregar is splendid in the role of a serious young composer, whose mind disappears into a subnormal world, and who is transformed into a homicidal maniac, roaming the foggy London streets at night. Linda Darnell lives her role as a cheap music hall singer who is determined to gain fame by using her beauty as a lure to attract the men who can help her. George Sanders is aptly suited for the role of an ace Scotland Yard psychiaristdetective who, on the fringe of a terrible secret, is unable to warn the one he loves of impending doom.

“OUR MISS GIBBS”

AT GREYMOUTH

Lovers of amateur theatricals will have their tastes well catered for when the Greymouth Operatic Society presents the evergreen musical comedy, “Our Miss Gibbs” 'at the Regent Theatre. The show will run for a week from August 12 to August 17, with matinees on the Wednesday and Saturday. A talented company of local artists have been working assiduously for the past three months. The producer Mr. L. McGlashan, is most happy about the progress that has been made to date. The same facility will be given country ■ schools to secure reservations as they were in “A Country Girl.” for the matinee performances. They are asked to book early at the R.S.A. office, Greymouth, under whose auspices the production is to be presented. “Our Miss Gibbs” must make an immediate appeal to school children because of the many humorour parts which are unfolded in the telling of the story. Parents and teachers arc- urged to take all possible steps to have their "charges witness; this spectacular and worthwhile presentation. It is just about 35 years since this famous comedy was first staged south of the line and Sydneyites of that day were to be heard immediately singing and whistling “Yip-I-Addy.” In no time it was the rage outback and Hie comedy took on like wild-tire.