ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 March 1948, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Finally Tonight: “Michigan Kid.” Commencing tomorrow: “Badman’s Territory” starring Randolph Scott and Ann Richards. Spacious and adventurous romance on the Oklahoma frontier, made oh an impressive scale and brimful of stirring entertainment, is presented in “Badman’s Territory,” commenceing at the Opera House tomorrow, with Randolph Scott, Ann Richards and character player George ‘Gabby’ Haves in top heroic roles. The long political light during the “Nineties” to bring the “Forgotten Land” that is now the Oklahoma Panhandle under Federal control forms the historic basis for the dramatic plot. In the rough and tumble setting is laid the stormy love story which motivates the film. A Texas sheriff, who enters the region on a personal matter, and a frontier newspaperwoman campaigning for law and order, are the hero and heroine, respectively, and their romantic troubles are played against a vivid background of bandit raids, politics and personal feuds, and lend the picture a solidly authentic atmosphere. Regent Theatre Finally Tonight: “The Sea of Grass,” with Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Melvyn Douglas. Commencing tomorrow: “The Locket” starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond. “The Locket,” is the powerful drama of a beautiful girl whose strange fixation warps her life arid spells ruin to the lives of the men who love her. Starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond, the emotio'rial saga revolves round the split personality of its heroine, Nancy Patton. An unfortunate childhood experience has given an otherwise lovely girl an irresistible impulse to steal jewels, and this kleptomania brings disaster to her. Miss Day, in her depiction of the charming but conscienceless Nancy, has an exacting role in which she reveals innate artistry beyond anything she has hitherto disclosed. Aherne, as the psychiatrist formerly married to her. Mitchum as a moody painter whom she drives to suicide, and Raymond as the wealthy young man she is about to marry, all turn in noteworthy characterisations. Strikingly different in its field, and abundant in drama and- suspense.