ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 February 1949, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

FINALLY TONIGHT: “Deep Valley. Commencing Tomorrow: “My Girl Tisa” and, “Ghost Goes Wild.’ The lusty, romantically nostalgic days of 19G0 form the backdrop for “My Girl Tisa,” commencing at the Opera House tomorrow. Heading the impressive cast are Lilli Palmer, and Broadway stage star, Sam Wanamaker, making his film debut. Others include Akim Tamiroff, Alan Hale, Hugo Haas. “My Girl Tisa” is a love story set against the time of Teddy Roosevelt, when no girl dressed in less than five petticoats and bustle, and no man had to strain to carry his chin high—it was held there by his celluliod collar. Basically it is the simple story of Tisa, who is fresh to these shores, and who works overtime in a sweatshop to save enough money to pay for her father’s passage from Europe. She meets Mark, an energetic young man of the neighbourhood. Dramatically the story takes form when Tisa becomes involved with a crooked ship’s agent and is faced with deportation. The ending carries a punch when President Teddy Roosevelt meets the girl at Ellis Island and solves her problem. The associate feature is the uproarious comedy hit, “The Ghost Goes Wild,” starring James Ellison and Anne Gwynne.

Regent Theatre TONIGHT: “The Bishop’s Wife," starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven. Romance and comedy are blended in a unique vehicle for Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, “The Bishop’s Wife.” As a protestant Bishop in a mid-western city, Niven has become so absorbed in the problem of raising funds for a new cathedral that he has lost touch with his old friends and has even lost the warm affections of his wife and child. Realising that the situation is getting beyond him, he prays for assistance, and is dumbfounded when a super-efficient young man, Dudley, immediately appears in his study and promises to help him reestablish himself. Although the clergyman resents the stranger’s interference, the rest of the household speedily falls under the guest’s spell. It isn’t long before the mysterious visitor has straightened out the financial troubles, won the Bishop’s old parishioners back to him, and re-united him with his wife again in a sparkling Christmas Eve climax.