ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1947, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. —To-night: “Motel Berlin.” “Hotel Berlin,” showing at the Opera House to-night, stars Faye Emerson, Raymond Massey, Andrea King, Peter Lorre and Helmut Dantine. “Hotel Berlin” tells a story that was smouldering behind the Westwall for more than five years of total war. Laid against the bombblasted backdrop of the Nazi capital, ‘'•Hotel Berlin” is concerned with Martin Richter (Helmut Dantine), an underground leader, and his struggle to bring understanding to a people diseased by years of Nazi ideology. It tells of exquisite Lisa Dorn (Andrea King), the spoiled darling of the German stage, and of the weak and shallow Jove she bore for Richter. Moving through the rooms of this great hotel, the film lays bare the lives of generals and statesmen, poets and shopkeepers; revealing for all the world to see. the corruption of the Nazi world. REGENT THEATRE. — To-night: “The Old Maid,” starring Bette Davis, George Brent. Miriam Hopkins. With Miss Davis and Miss Hopkins in “The Old Maid” are George Brent. Jane Bryan, Donald Crisp, Louise Fazenda, James Stephenson, Jerome Cowan. The story deals with two cousins, Charlotte and Delia Lovell, who live in the same old house in aristocratic Philadelphia in the period between 1861, when the civil war broke out and the 1880’s. Despite the luxury and wealth with which they are surrounded, they hate and envy each other lor twenty-odd years. Then the daughter of “the sour old maid” is able to bring mutual understanding to them as their grey hairs and lined faces tell they have entered middle age. The picture is a tense, gripping drama, with a charmingly picturesque period background. Houses, furniture, equipages, costumes, all were revived with authenticity and beauty.