ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 August 1949, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

TONIGHT: “Road House,” starring Ida Lupino and Cornel Wilde. A powerful dramatic story set against the exciting background of a road house brings together Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm and Richard Wildmark in “Road House,” the new screen hit, packed with hard hitting drama and dynamic action, showing at the Opera House tonight. In brief, “Road House” is the story of a night club singer, whose looks and magnetism involve Wilde and Widmark in a struggle for her love. Out of this antagonism grows the dissolution of the men’s friendship, and the transformation of Wildmark from an easygoing play-boy into a vindictive enemy. A climax in which the men are pitted against each other as they track through the northern wasteland will most assuredly have you glued to your seats with excitement.

Regent Theatre TONIGHT: “A Date With Judy.” Among the stars of “A Date With Judy” are Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Wallace Beery, Carmen Miranda, Robert Stack, Xavier Cugat and his Orchestri. Here is a song-studded tale of a lucky family and their happy-go-lucky adventures. Beery, in one of his rare excursions into musicals, plays the benign head of a brood which Includes wife, Selena Royle, daughter Jane Powell and brat son Jerry Hunter. Jane falls in love with handsome Robert Stack; and rival Elizabeth Taylor tries to upset jthis applecart. To add to her misery, Jane discovers that her father is keeping mysterious trysts with Senorita Miranda, unaware that their meetings are for the sole purpose of cacies of the rhumba. But complications are cheerfully unravelled before the family goes completely to pieces.