ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 October 1948, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

TONIGHT: “Where There's Lije," starring Bob Hope. The old adage—“uneasy lies the head that wears a crown”—has never been so hilariously demonstrated as m “Where There’s Life,” showing at the Opera House tonight with Signe Hasso and William Bendix also starred, Bob Hope is cast as a gag-happy disk jockey who almost becomes King of a mythical country. “Where There’s Life” starts right off with a bang—an assassin’s bullet fells the reigning monarch of Barovia. The shot is heard round the world, for the king’s death-bed confession names a New York platter spinner as his son and 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 of 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 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.