AMUSEMENTS.

Grey River Argus, 3 December 1928, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. “PRIVATE IZZY MURPHY.” George Jessel, famous for “The Jazz Singer,” a spectacular Broadway hit, is starred by Warners in a seriocomic heart drama of the days of the Wofd War, “Private Izzy Murphy.” Izzy Goldberg, having to leave his quarters in the Ghetto, add? an appeal to customers of the Irish neighbourhood into which he moves, by renaming himself “Murphy.” His delicatessen business thrives to the point of making it possible for him to bring papa and mamma from Russia. They are delighted with their son’s success. And then —the World War! “Izzy” joins up with an Irish regiment, keeping the Hibernian name. He had courted pretty Eileen Cohannigan. Ho goes overseas. Word comes he has boon killed. But after the Armistice, when the boys are parading up Fifth Avenue, the Goldbergs go wild with joy to see their boy among the rest, helmeted and “big as life and twice as natural!” The complications which follow (with Eileen’s father, Moe Ginsberg, the marriage broker, dough boys, neighbours) are so mirth-provok-ing that everyone in the audience forgets that such things as rancour and prejudice can exist in the world. Patsy Ruth Miller “Eileen Cohannigan,” the pretty Irish sweetheart. This Warner Bros, classic shows at. the Opera House to-night.