ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 April 1948, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Finally Tonight: “The Verdict.” Commencing tomorrow: “Two Smart People” and “The Crimson Key. Laid against such diversified settings as Beverley Hills, the Mexican desert and New Orleans’ colorful Mardi Gras, with Lucille Ball anti John Hodiak paired in a romantic tale of two swindlers who almost outsmart the law, “Two Smart People.” commences at the Opera House tomouoA. Miss Ball is seen as Ricki, a suave dealer in faked art masterpieces, who first encounters Ace Connors when he botches up one ot her irciuduleru sales. Their idyll, however is interrupted when the law, in the person of Detective Bob' Simms catches up with Ace and is about to take him into custody for the theft of a haliinillion dollars in gilt-edged securities. Through a series of circumstances, Ace is able to make a curious deal with the detective. He promises to give himself up, providing he and Ricki are permitted a last four-day fling. The occurrences make for a narrativfe continuous in excitement and mounting tension, with the suspense of whether the principals will Snake a getaway after all. “THE CRIMSON KEY”

“The Crimson Key,” with Kent Taylor, Doris Dowling in the leading roles, commences at the Opera House tomorrow. Touched off by the disappearance of “The Crimson Key,” and the murder of its owner, the action centres around a doctor and his wife, a nurse, an actress and an artist. Violence and murder are the keynote as the search for the missing key brings on an unusual chain reaction. Regent Theatre Finally Tonight: “My Favourite Brunette” with Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour. Commencing tomorrow: “Ivy,” starring Joan Fontaine, Patrie Knowles, Herbert Marshall. Dynamic drama and breath-taking suspense are skilfully blended in one of the most gripping stories of the year in “Ivy.” Beauteous Joan Fontaine has the title role. Exceptionally strong male support is given with a trio of Hollyw’ood’s best actors, Patrie Knowles, Herbert Marshall and Richard Ney. Ney portrays the husband she murders and Knowles the lover upon whom she casts suspicion so that she can be free to pursue the wealthy Marshall. Other roles are played by supremely competent performers—Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Lucile Watson, Rosalind Ivan, Sara Allgood, Henry Stephenson, Lilian Fontaine, Paul Cavanagh and Una O’Connor.