ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 February 1947, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE.—To-night: “Masquerade in Mexico,” and “Grissly's Millions.” Dorothy Lamour and Arturo de Cordova share stellar billing in “Masquerade in Mexico,” - showing at the Opera House to-night. Featuring rhythmical dances and music, the story concerns the adventures of Lamour, who innocently becomes involved with a diamond smuggler, then poses as a titled Spanish singer to escape detection. In the course of her nightly engagements at a smart, expensive club, she is seen by handsome Patrie Knowles, fellow-passenger aboard a plane to Mexico. He remembers that she was the young lady who planted a stolen diamond on him while he was suffering an attack of airsickness,, and instantly becomes interested in her. Subsequently he hires Dotty to vamp a dashing matador who insists on flirting with his wife, a spoilt lady of Mexico’s upper crust. “Grissly’s Millions.” Fashioned to a new pattern the murder mystery melodrama “Grissly’s Millions,” with Paul Kelly and Virginia Grey in starring roles, showing at the Opera . House tonight. Grissly Palmer, an eccentric old millionaire, on his death-bed disinherits his mercenary relatives and leaves the bulk of his fortune to his granddaughter, who ran away years before to get married. Returning to the Grissly mansion, she tells her grandfather, for personal reasons, that her husband is dead. But he unexpectedly turns up and tries to blackmail her. When a private investigator arrives to apprehend the husband things begin to happen. The old man and the husband are murdered, and all evidence points to the daughter.

REGENT THEATRE. — To-night: “Waterloo Road,” starring Stewart Granger, John Mills, Alistair Sim, Joy Shelton A heart-warming, right-up-to-ths minute drama of a soldier who skips camp to straighten out his married life. It includes plenty of real, oldfashioned humour and a tremendous fight. John Mills has the part of the young soldier, Jim Colter, who breaks camp to come home and settle his family troubles. Jim is a typical cockney type, brave, resourceful, and humorous. . He risks his army career to safeguard his home and is ready to fight anybody to protect his wife. As Ted Purvis, Stewart Granger is a flashy boxer who has wangled his way out of national ser- I vice and idles his time away as pro- j prietor of a pin-table saloon. Alistair Sim plays the kindly Dr. Mont- | gomery, whose advice does much to

| solve the .young couple’s problems for them. Joy Shelton wins promotion to a featured role as John. Mills’s wife, Tillie. Other interesting casting includes Leslie Bradley as a Canadian military policeman; George Carney as a railway ganger; Alison Leggatt as the spiteful sister; Annan Konstam as a cockney JAonde,

Concrete Floors. All new houses in Britain are to have ground floors made of concrete instead of wood supported by wooden joists. The order applies to houses built by free enterprise or local authorities, and is to continue to operate until Britain can increase 'timber imports. ■