ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 March 1949, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

Opera House

NOW SHOWING: “For. the Love of Mary,” starring Deanna Durbin. A bright, entertaining romantic comedy enlivening the screen with mirth and music, is Deanna Durbin’s latest picture, “For the Love of Mary,” supported bv Edmund O’Brien, Jeffrey Lynn and Don Taylor. Displaying a matured flair for effervescent frivolity, the talented Deanna, is seen as a White House telephone operator who becomes chummy with the President,, cabinet members, supreme court justices and othersdignitaries of the national'Capital. The romance is set in a quadrangle, in place of the customary triangle. The three men eager for her affectiojr are O’Brien in the role of a presidential naval aide, whose first date with her is by executive order; Tayloi' an ambitious young ichthyologist whose mind until he meets her was devoted exclusively to fish; and Lynn, a worthy plodder in the attorney general’s office 1 who finds the romantic competition to 1

be tough going for a man devoted to Blackstone rather than Eros.

Regent Theatre

NOW SHOWING: “Song of My Heart,” starrinn Frank Sundstrom, Audrey Long, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

With Frank Sundstrom and Audrey Long romantically teamed as the composer and the Russian princess who greatly influences his life, this picture is rich in the Tchaikovsky music and drama brought out in the screenplay by Benjamin Glazer. One of Hollywood’s important biograghies, “Song of My Heart” serves as the American screen debut vehicle for Sundstrom, a graduate of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Sweden. Others featured with Sundstrom and Miss Long in “Song of My Heart” are Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as the Grand Duke and father of Audrey Long; Mikhail Rasummv, in a dual role as a Russian officer who tells the Tchaikovsky s.tory to several Americans he meets in an Officers’ Club in the Persian Gulf Command, and also as Tchaikovsky’s beloved valet; and Gale Sheerwood, as

Sophia, the young music student whom Tchaikovsky marries, but soon divorces.

IRISH, NATIONAL CONCERT

The annual Irish national concert will be staged at the Regent Theatre on Thursday evening. Particular attention has' this year, been given to the selection of items to be presented, and. patrons are assured of a wonderful evening’s entertainment. Mr Grenfell, a singer from Hokitika, will be especially pleasing to the audience, as also will be several local singers already well known to Greymouth audiences. The ■ ever-popular choruses by local school choirs will again be heard. Miss Miriam Trott’s School of Dancing will provide two items. Another item of interest will be a clever display of gymnastics by the pupils of the Marist Brothers’ School. The concert is a well-balanced selection of national music, songs and dances.