ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1948, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

TONIGHT: “Where There’s Life, starring Bob Hope. , The old adage—“uneasy lies the beau that wears a crown”—has never bee so hilariously demonstrated .as in “Where There’s Life,’ showing at the Opera House tonight with Signe Hasso and William Bendix also staired, Bob Hope is cast as a gag-happy uisk iockev who almost becomes King ot a mythical country. ‘‘Where Theres Life” starts right off with a bang an assassin’s bullet fells the reigning monarch of Barovia. The shot i. heard round the world, for the kings death-bed confession names a New York platter spinner as his son ana heir to the throne. The “clown’ prince is of' course, Hope, blissfully going about his business of selling dog food over the air. Only his impending marriage to the manhunting sister oi a tough Irish cop mars his happiness. On the eve of this “disaster,” a delegation from Barovia, led by the most beautiful general in any army, Signe Hasso, arrives to tell Hope of his inheritance and to escort him back to the fatherland. From that moment, Hope faces a fate worse than marriage.

Regent Theatre TONIGHT: “Unconquered,’’ starring Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva. “Unconquered,” which co-stars Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard, showing at the Regent tonight. Much of the action centres around Fort Pitt, a lonely outpost 1 giving precarious shelter to 500 colonists. George Washington, then a Colonel in the King’s Colonial forces, selected the site. When Chief Pontiac’s savage hordes swept down on it, determined, to drive the white settlers out, there were many who thought its defence was a profitless waste of lives. “Unconquered” also tells the exciting romance of a Virginia militiaman and a lovely English bond slave who fall in love and share some hair-raising adventures.