AMUSEMENTS.
OPERA HOUSE — TO-NIGHT. tl MILLIONAIRES.” “Millionaires,” the Warner Bros production released by Master Pictures, which comes to the Opera House to-night, is a picture that gets laughter in hearty measure. With George Sidney. Louise Fazenda and Vera Gor <lon heading the cast, it has a trio of rib-tickling funmakers., who have long since demonstrated that real laughs are pretty do e to real tears. Helene Costello, Nat Carr, Jane Winton and Arthur Lubin are among others who add to the gaiety of the entertainment. The story, written by Raymond L Schrock, concerns a Jewish tails’, whose placid. happy life is nearly wrecked on the shores of social ambi tion. when he suddenly copie sinto a fortune. —— FRIDAY — DOUBLE STAR. “FIGURES DON’T LIE” AND “RASH PRIVATES.” Birthday or wedding anniversary, for which is the present to the wife? Many a. man has been tripped up over that delicate question, and not every one has a beautiful private secretary [like Esther Ralston to got him out o’ difficulties, as she rescues Ford Sterling in the Paramount picture, “.Fig ures Don’t Lie,” which will be at the Opera House on Friday night. V hile trying to keep her absent-minded employer straight on his private and business affairs, Miss Ralston incurs
the enmity of his jealous wife, Blanche Payson. She also succeeds in making her sweetheart; Richard Arlen. extremely jealous. It is a hilarious story
of everyday life. All the comic in eidents that can centre around a dis tractingly beautiful girl, a harmless but susceptibe middle-aged man, a
high-tempered and jealous wife, and an equally jealous lover, are crowded into the picture in laugh provoking sequence.
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Grey River Argus, 13 December 1928, Page 2
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