AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 9 May 1935, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House To-night

“THE SCOTLAND YARD MYSTERY.”

An atmosphere of intense thrill is created in a powerful detective melodrama now screening at the Opera House, entitled “The Scotland Yur.l Alystery.” It deals with the exposure of a tremendous life insurance ramp by the Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard and entails a continuaus train of intensely gripping incidents. The late Sir Gerald Du Maurier, gives in his final film a polished performance as the Scotland Yard inspector. George Curzon makes an ideal crook, whilst Walter Patch, who supplies the comedy, Greta Natzlcr, Belle C'hrystall, Leslie Perrins Henry Victor all provide excellent support. FRIDAY—A NORMA SHEARER TRIUMPH. “RifcPTIDE.” Norma Shearer offers another fas cinatiug performance as a woman with ultra-modern ideals in ‘ fik’ipt ide, ” her newest photoplay which opens on Friday at the Opera House. This new Shearer vehicle stands out as one of the finest to come from the Aletro Goldwyn-Alayer studios. As Lady Rexford, in this daringly triangular romance, Aliss Shearer is regally superb. Never has she appeared so beautifully photographed or handsomely costumed. Iler performance is nothing less than magnificent, even more superb than her “Divorce, ’’ which won her the Academy of Motion Picture Aits and Sciences award in 1929 With the customary flair attached to a Shearer film the star is provided with not one leading man but two. Robert Montgomery enacts the playboy friend and Herbert Alat-lall is seen as the more sober-minded husband' Each d._ jvers a superb performance.

MARIST SCHOOL CONCERT. The Alarist Concert taking place tonight in the Town Hall promises to surpass everything hitherto presented by the pupils of that school. With items dramatic, instrumental, choral and gymnastic, the concert provides for the tastes of all. In the dramatic section the three plays “Wireless and Such Like Nonsense,” “Birds of a Feather,” and the scene from “Treasure Island,” the youthful actors will enthrall the audience and at times keep them in a constant state of merriment. In the instrumental portion of the programme two old favourites will be rendered by the Convent Quartette, Selections from “Maritana, ” and ”In a Alonastery Garden.” The picturesque flag drill, consisting of rythmic- and intricable figure making will appeal to the aesthetic tastes of all. while the extreme youth of the performers in the statue drill will gladden the hearts of young a’nd old. Part songs rendered by the Convent Choir and Alarist Choir will fill the choral part of the programme. The Convent Choir discussing in song the vagaries of Alother Hubbard in her trip to the cupboard and the Alarist Choir in “Larboard Watch,” will round off a well-balanced and careful-ly-chosen programme.