ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1950, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

Opera House “The Red Pony” starring Robert Mitchum and Myrna Loy. “The Red Pony,” based on John Steinbeck’s beloved novel showing at the Opera House tonight. The story is built around the gift of a small red pony to nine-year-old Tom Tiffin. The father, Fred, is a former schoolteacher who has never been able to adjust himself to the ranch life so natural to his genteel wife, Alice, and his young son. Fred finds it impossible to get on an equal footing with the neighbour’s, all of whom address him as “Mr Tiflin” when he longs to be called by his first name. It seems to Fred that he is excess baggage around the ranch. Even Tom turns to Billy Buck, the hired man for help in training the pony, rather than to his father. Fred vents most of his resentment upon his old father-in-law whose wishful identification with the past irritates the unhappy man. When the pony dies, bringing depthless grief to young Tom, the family situation is brought to a fast, heart-warming culmination. Regent Theatre ■ “Miss Tatlock’s Millions” starring John Lund Wanda Hendrix, Barry Fitzgerald, Monty Woolley.' John Lund, a stunt man, is engaged to masquerade as the idiotic member of a wealthy family whose presence is required at the reading of a will distributing the family fortune. The idiot had been in Lund’s charge but had disappeared in Hawaii and had not been seen by the family for years. When the will is read, Lund finds himself the sole heir. As a result he becomes the object of numerous conspiracies involving everyone but Wanda Hendrix, who had a genuine affection... for., her., unfortunate “brother.” Lund falls in love with Wanda, but naturally, he is compelled to control hfs emotions. In the end Fitzgerald discovers the real missing heir, who had married an Hawaiian native, and after a series of crazy events foils' the avaricious plans of the scheming relatives- and brings Wanda and Lund together.