ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1946, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—To-night: “Radio Stars on Parade” and “Close Quarters.”

Gaiety, novelty, and music feature in the hilarious musical comedy, “Radio Stars on Parade,” which is showing at the Opera House. The rapidly-climbing team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney share stellar honours with sugar-voiced Frances Langford in this hilarious tale of a pair of phoney Hollywood agents mixed up with a pretty singer, a gambler, a gangster, and a big broadcasting station. While one of the boys is busy selling the singer to a famous band leader, the other is taking a stiff bribe from her gang-ster-admirer to keep her off the air. The last third of it consists of a wildly hilarious pursuit of the two wouldbe agents through studios of the broadcasting station, where they interrupt one programme after another in their efforts to escape the gangt ster’s vengeance.

At last the heroic work of the British Submarine Service has been given full official film recognition in “Close Quarters,” showing at the Opera House to-night. The result is an unvarnished record of the hazards run by men of the Submarine Service in the course of a patrol in the- North Sea. Gripping highlights are the sinking of a U-boat, the rescue of three Norwegian fishermen, the torpedoing of a floating dock, and the escape of the submarine from depth charges, and from the sea bed following the sticking of her bow in the mud. REGENT THEATRE — To-night: “Out of This World.”

The cast in this hilarious musical comedy is headed by Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Diana Lynn, and Cass Daley. You’ll hear Eddie Bracken use Bing Crosby’s voice to sing “Out of This World,” “June Comes Around Every Year,” and “I d Rather Be Me.” The film also features several specialty acts, including keyboard harmony by Carmen Cavallaio, Henry King, Joe a Reichman, Ted Fiorito, and Ray Noble, a 25-piece all-girl orchestra, with Diana Lynn at the piano, seven new song hits, the Crosby Kids, and Cass Daley and her Gol-Darned Drums. Out oi This World” is supported by a splendid first half. • _