ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1949, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

“The Green Fingers,” starring Robert Beatty, Carol Raye, Nova Pilbeam, Felix Aylmer. This film is the most controversial picture to be made in years. This is the story of Thomas Stone, a fisherman with a leg disabled in the war. All doctors had told him he would be disabled for life. He goes to London and is healed by an Osteopath after which he decided that he also will become an Osteopath. The ensuing story is one which you will thoroughly enjoy, but one that will be condemned by your doctor. Regent Theatre ‘‘Ruthless," starring Zachery Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet, Martha Vickers. “Ruthless” tells the story of a man. played by Zachary Scott, destined from childhood by personality to make his way up in the world—with no thought of ‘the price, either to himself or to those he uses, as he climbs the ladder to infamous success. As a child, Scott worms his way into the graces of a wealthy family and gets them to send him to Harvard. There he becomes engaged to Martha Vickers, the niece of the influential broker, whom he discards when he learns that she is of no more use to him.

His boyhood friend, Louis Hayward, watches as Scott breaks an industrialist who helped him and then steals the wife of the ruined man. The tense and dramatic climax is reached when Scott, confident, suave, enormously wealthy, and at the peak of his career, attempts to steal the fiancee of Hayward, his best friend. TEX MORTON

Tex Morton, the Australian equivalent of Gene Autry, is to appear in person next week at the Regent Theatre. Guitarist, trick-shooter, singer, composer, poet and trick-rider, he is a New Zealander, whose recordings of popular outdoor songs and ballads have achieved remarkable popularity. His

amazing trick shooting act includes splitting a card edgeways with a bullet, shooting the ash off the cigarette of his stage partner. Sister Dorrie, and other feats with genuine live ammunition. Tex Morton will introduce the famous international hypnotist, Van Loewe, to Greymouth' audiences at the Regent Theatre next Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Box plans are at Harleys.