ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1947, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Tonight: “Snafu” and “The Strange Mr Gregory.” Something new and hilarious has been added to the screen; it is the comedy riot “Snafu” (situation normal—all fouled up), showing at the Opera House tonight with Robert Benchley, Vera Vague, Conrad Janis, and Annette Parks in the leading roles. “Snafu” is the story of a returned boy hero who only wanted in his arms, but ended up with three in his hair and whose family still thinks he’s a baby. “Strange Mr Gregory” A most unusual screen drama, “The Strange Mr Gregory,” starring Edmund Lowe and Jean Rodgers, is showing at the Opera House tonight. Lowe, a professional magician, is invited to the home of Miss Rodgers and her husband, Don Douglas, president of a local magicians’ society, Though Douglas is vastly impressed with the visiting master of his craft, his wife is frightened and repelled when she realises that Lowe is falling violently in love with her. Finally, after he has pursued the young woman ruthlessly, her husband, in a sudden rage, rushes to the magician’s home. Lowe goes into a state of suspended animation, and it is made to appear that Douglas has killed him. Later, when the husband has been convicted: of murder, Lowe returns to the scene disguised as his own brother, and continues his attentions to the young wife.

Regent Theatre Tonight: “Thunder Rock,” starring * Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason, Lilli Palmer. “Thunder Rock,” based on the successful play of the same name by Robert Ardrey, has a brilliant cast, headed by Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason, and Lilli Palmer. Its theme covers one of the most absorbing problems of the day, that of a man . Charleston, played both on stage and screen by Michael Redgrave, who, submerged in despair at the trend of world events, endeavours to escape from the realities of life by taking a job as keeper of an isolated lighthouse. The story unfolds as Charleston endeavours, m his solitary confinement, to conjure up from the past a group of people who had been shipwrecked and nearly drowned nearly 100 years ago, and with whom he builds a new world of his own.