ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1946, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—To-night: “Shady Lady,” starring Charles Coburn, Ginny Simms, and Robert Paige. Combining hilarity, suspense, and provocative romance, “Shady Lady,” featuring Charles Coburn, Ginny Simms, and Robert Paige in awardwinning roles you’ll never forget, is showing pt the Opera House. Locale of the arresting plot is Chicago, where Coburn, as an elderly smoothie, is the dean of card sharps in the night club belt. Miss Simms portrays an entertainer. Her boss, a notorious cabaret proprietor, is being trapped by an aggressive young prosecuting attorney deputy, played by Robert Paige. Through devious but successful means, Coburn becomes the key figure in a desperate situation which threatens scandal and a criminal’s escape from justice. In’ the end he is responsible- for the happy culmination of a romance and finds romance himself. “Olympia.” A special matinee will be held on Saturday morning, when there will be shown the Olympic film of the 1936,

world’s championships held in Berlin, and to-night (Friday) this picture J of the Olympic Games will be again ' shown. Special scenes of the Olym- ; pic Games held in Berlin show the . world’s greatest athletes in action in hurdling, discus and hammer throw- , ing, high jump, shot putt, andJLoveI lock’s epic race of 1500 metres. IREGENT THEATRE — Tb-night: “Love Letters,” starring Jennifer Jones, Josephs Cotten, Ann Richards, and Cecil Kellaway. Co-starring Joseph Cotten and the ; screen’s outstanding dramatic star, [Jennifer Jones, “Love Letters” is ■ showing at the Regent Theatre. | The picture tells the strange ro- : mance of a man and a girl who dared ! not remember yesterday. Serious, | poetic Alan Quinton (Joseph Cotjten) and gay, irresponsible Rodger [Morland (Robert Sully) are brother I British Army officers in Italy. Homesick, an idealist regarding women and love, in Rodger’s name, Alan has been writing beautiful love letters to a girl in England whom he has never [met and never expects to. Rodger gaily announces that he is going [home to marry the girl who has

fdllen in love with him, thinking that he is the author of the letters. Upon Alan’s - return to England months later, he learns that Rodger had been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and that the girl had been tried for the husband’s murder. The impulse to investigate this strange series of 'circumstances, in which he had inadvertently played a part, impels him to search newspaper records in an effort to find the now lost girl, Victoria, who is alive but is an amnesia victim, having lost her memory at the time of the murder. Eventually Alan finds Victoria, realises he is in love with her, and marries her.