ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1948, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

FINALLY TONIGHT: '‘The Exile:' Commencing Tomorroio: “Meet the Navy” and “Susie Steps Out.” Come aboard the good ship “Happiness,” manned by an all-Canadian crew of navy girls and boys and skippered by Oscar Natzka (N.Z.’s basso singer), carrying ••a cargo of melody, youth, beauty, romance, comedy and spectacle on a sea of technicolour, in the famous London Hippodrome sensation “Meet the Navy,” commencing at the Opera House tomorrow. This two-continent stage hit now brought to the screen, is the authentic story of the Royal Canadian Navy show —its travels and success. Every member of the film cast is either an officer or rating who joined the navy from ordinary walks of life. “SUSIE STEPS OUT”

The laugh-filled, heart-warming musical film “Susie Steps Out” commencing at the Opera House tomorrow with David Bruce, Cleatus Caldwell and Nina Hunter in the leading roles is the first to delve into, the background of television broadcasting. The story centres around the trials of the Russell family. When Papa Russell, becomes ill, little Nita decides to sing in a night club to contribute to the family budget. She dresses in her sister’s clothes and lands a job. Bruce, Cleatus, fiance, decides to teach Nita a lesson and takes her to his apartment. Cleatus, not understanding Bruce’s motives, breaks up with him. But all is finally straightened out, and Nita wins a co-starring singing role with Bruce.

Regent Theatre FINALLY TONIGHT: “Cass Timberlane,” with, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott. Commencing Tomorrow: “The Private' Life of a Scoundrel,” starring George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak.

Set in Paris of the last century, the film introduces Sanders just after his return from the war in Africa, poor and disheartened. Quite by accident he meets an old friend, John Carradine, who gets him a job on a leading French newspaper. Through Carradine’s wife Sanders is soon on the way up the ladder to fame, fortune, and enviable social position. During his ascent, he cleverly makes use of the affections of the many women who fall passionately in love with him, as well as every influential man he meets. His enemies are legion, his scandalous affairs soon the talk of Paris. Excellent in supporting roles are Frances Dee, Marie Wilson, Susan Douglas', Hugo Haas, Katherine Emery, Albert Basserman, Warren Williams and Richard Fraser.