ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1949, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

NOW SHOWING: “All Quiet on the Western Front. “AP Quiet on the Western F now showing at the Opera House iss fo - lowed with most unusual faithfulness, bringing with it a dynamic message to maSd This towering drama is the story cfi youth—the youth of all nations in war. A story of one young £ a * symbolises in himself the fate oi all youths, comrades and foem ®u. cas^H t .° the flaming maw of war. This pictuie has an amazing cast of stars headed by Lew Ayres in the role of a young idealist who went from the schoolroom to the front. Beryl Mercer as his mother, Slim Somerville and Louis Wclheim play very important parts. Also screening, March of Time .presents “Battle for Germany.”

Regent Theatre TONIGHT: “White Cradle Inn,’’ starring Madeleine Carroll, Michael Rennie, lan Hunter. A. Swiss village has been the refuge Of French children during the war. Roger, one of them, ha. 4 been billeted at an inn owned by Magda, whose marriage to Rudolph is unhappy. Magda wants to adopt the boy, but Rudolph refuses to sign the paper unless she makes over the inn to him . ‘She reluctantly agrees. Determined to win the friendship of Rudolph, who considers him a coward, Rodger persuades him to take him on a climb on to a mountain peak. Rodger misses his footing and crashes on to a ledge below. Rudolph, suspended in mid-air, supported only by a rope around the boy’s waist, realises that one or both will be killed. He deliberately cuts the rope and falls to his death. Roger is rescued and taken back to the inn by Magda and the village doctor, who is in Jove with her.