ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 May 1949, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

TONIGHT: “Under Nevada Skies’’ and “Fighting Mad.” Starring Roy Rogers and featuring George Hays, Dale Evans, The Sons of the Pioneers, and Trigger, “Under Nevada Skies” an action-packed Western musical is showing at the Opera House. The story concerns Rogers famous rodeo star who returns to his old home town to visit his old pal Gabby and meets his Indian friends at a near-by reservation. On hearing that an old friend of Gabbv’s has been murdered they forget about Indian pow-wows and romantic sogs and go out in search of the mysterious killer. Joe Palooka, Australia’s favourite comic strip hero, also hero of a hundred fights, again comes to the screen of the Opera House tonight in his latest knock-out drama, “Fighting Mad.” When the champion hears that his friend Knobby, is being used as a stooge he comes out of retirement and challenges the new heavyweight champion, and in a thrilling fight, knocks him out.

Regent Theatre

TONIGHT: “Call Northside 777,” starring James Stewart, Richard Conte, Helen Walker. This is the story that was waiting to be unleashed by Chicago Times reporter McNeal... a story that lay smoldering in the heart and hopes of a mother—Tillie Wiecek—whose son was sentenced to a life term in Illinois State Penitentiary for the murder of a policeman in 1932. And it is the story whose telling Frank Wiecek fought against—in the beginning—so that his innocent wife and child be spared. This is the story whose secret was locked behind the cold, bitter lips of Wanda Skutnik who swore to the jury that Frank was the killer, and then disappeared. It is the story that some police and government officials tried to hush up to “maintain confidence in law and order.” And it is the story that a crusading newspaper and its fighting city editor Kelly said must—and would —be told.