AMUSEMENTS
OPERA HOUSE—TO NIGHT. “TUGBOAT ANNIE " Marie Dressier and Wallace Beery are lhe attraction, h.lariously funny tensely dramatic, but a.ways entertaining, in ‘‘Tugboat Annie,’’ to be screened to-night and on Saturday Mare plays Annie and Beery plays ‘'Terry,’’ her husband, while 1 Ri b. ri Young, captain of a liner, marries the daughter of a shipping magnate and seeks to remove his parents from the tug which i R thpj- livelihood and home. The father lapses into :.lco ho.ie ways, and the son disowns him —but when, in resejuing the son’s liner, the father makes an astounding sacrifice. their difficulties are smoothed out. Beery’s scene, pinging leaking boiler tubes in a flaming firebox ar sea, is the dramatic highbght of a delightful ro manep. Beery and Mis R Dressier battle and make up and glean countless laughs-. Frankie Darro is clever' as the son before he gnows up into Young. Maureen O’Sullivan makes ?| beautiful siwpptheart. Clever character work is provided by "Willard Robertson. Tammany Young, Jack Pennick and Paul Hurst Mervyn. Loßoy d*necited the picture with the same deft skill that, marked his “Gold Diggers.’’ BLACKBALL—TO NIGHT. “The Working Man’’ w’ll be screened to-night. DENNISTON—TO-NIGHT. “A Bedtime Story’’ will be screened to-night. WALL SEND—TO-NIGHT. “A Lady’s Profession’’ will b' screened bo-night. Baty’s Garage for the largest stocks of motor parts and accessories.—Advt.
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Grey River Argus, 4 May 1934, Page 6
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