AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1935, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—TO-DAY. Henry Edwards heads the cast m George A. Birmingham’s uproarious funny Irish comedy, 11 General John Regan,” to be screened to-day for the last time. It delineates life in Ireland, and is no travesty. The characters all save an American Tourist, are played by the worXl-fanious Dublin Abbey Players, a combination whose fame and good name are household words. First written in book form by a Canon of the Anglican Church, who then hid behind a nom-de-plumc, it was a best-seller. Dominion Films have produced the screen version which is scoring heavily. The attractions for to-night are ‘‘Let’s Fall in Love” and “Finishing School. ’ ’ SUNDAY. Sally Eilers. Zasu Pitts and John Alack Brown, appear in “Three on a Honeymoon,’’ to be screened on Sunday, the proceeds being in aid of the Mayor’s Unemployment Funds. MONDAY.

“Little Alan, What Now,” features Margaret Sullavan, Douglas Moutgom cry, Alan Hale. Catherine Doucet on

Monday. A simple picture, honest and beautiful. It is the story of two young people in Germany’s pre-war depression days, who marry with no assets. 'They live the life that thousands of such innocents live—tn shabby attics, in city tenements, fearful of losing ] romiscuous jobs, yet sc unworldly that a, holiday in the woods makes them supremely happy. Buying a fine dressing table, they are saved by an eld dealer in junk in whose attic their little man is born. Margaret brings absolute sincerity with her job. She is not too beautiful to be believable. She is any girl in any country in such circumstances. Alontgomery is any boy| struggling against odds. Rest of the cast are up to requirements. “FINISHING SCHOOL.” Idealistic, love stages a. dramatic 1 attic against the false gods of snobbery ami hypocrisy and emerges glori-1 ( uslv triumphant in “Finishing School,” which conies to the Opera House Theatre to-day. Revealing a startling cross-section < f life behind the exclusive walls of :i certain type of fashionable boarding school, the story is that of a girl who is left to different supervision. So-ciety-mad mothers who banish their daughters to these schools so as to be f:ee to follow the social whirl, unburdened by the care of their children also are pilloried. Francos Dee, recently seen in “Little AVomen,” plays a sensitive, high-strung daughter of the rich, she is rescued through the I 'V-e of a. man outside her exclusive s cial set. Bruce Cabot is the young doctor who loves the girl and who storms the walls of her school prison to save her. Dashing Ginger Rogers will lo seen as the wildest girl in the school, an expert at evading rules and the moving spirit in the staging of week-end rendezvous with fake chaperones and hidden bottles. Billie Burke portrays the girl’s society-mad mother, and Beulah Bondi plays the part of the hide-bound, snobbish, merciless head of the finishing school. Regent Theatre HARRY THURSTON IN VAUDEVILLE In addition to the double feature progDammc atQ the Regent Theatre, comprising ‘‘l am a Fuga- ; tive From a Chain Gang”, and “Con vent ion City” these wilj be a welcome novelty. 1| takes the form of the famous characterisations present- ‘‘ I by Harry 'Thurston, in “ London Life on the ’Thames Embankment.” i Harry Thurston i s a master chars,ter actor, and his performances will

enthrall any audience. lie 'depicts rhe real life of one of the most notable jiart of the world's greatest city. Everybody' knows of the romance and tragic features of life on the Embankment, but to realise it adequately in all its variety. on6' requires to see it depicted by so authentic and talented an exponent as Harry ’Thurston. It is safe to say the management will merit the hearty approval of their patrons in ob taining such a feature for a season of several nights.