ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1948, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Finally Tonight: “Badman’s Territory.” Tomorrow (Thursday only):P‘Little Mister Jim.” There isn’t a member of the family from grandpa down to the youngest tot, who can fail to enjoy “Little Mister Jim,” featuring “Butch” Jenkins with James Craig and Frances Gifford in strong support screens at the Opera House tomorrow. Here is the story of an eight-year-old boy brought up on a cavalry post,, adoring his understandingyoung parents, guided in his childhood decisions by a wise Chinese houseman, getting embroiled in such childhood incidents as a birthday party in which the guests are more or less “blackmailed”- into bringingpresents; learning to ride his first bicycle; turning his nose up at “girl stuff.” It is when the story takes a serious turn, however; when the youngster’s mother dies and his father attempts to drown his grief in drink, that the talents of this juvenile make themselves manifest. The latter part of the always moving narrative revolve about the attempts of determined ladies of the cavalry post to find a new mother for the child. They meet their match in little Jim's courage and steadfastness, and in the end the boy and his father find a v." y to start their life afresh.

Regent Theatre Tonight: “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 and spells ruin to the lives of the men who love her. Starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond, the emotional 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.