AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 27 April 1936, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House “DANCE BAND.” A. successful picture demands capable ar.ists, inns.cal comedy no e-s--thau drama. Every great musical film success has revealed the fact that one or more brilliant stars have hear.ed the cast. Ths fact helps to make a brilliant success of “Dance Band, which comes to the Opera Houso tonight. Heading the east is Buddy Rogers, who made stu-li a decided nn in a series of Hollywood musical films some years ago. In “Dance Band” he gives a dashing performance. and proves himself most versat le. He directs a dame band witb rare pep. plays nearly every mstru me nt, croons pleasantly, and ucnera ly laughs his way through the whole film June Clyde makes a. deiigh.ful jrfir ner foi • him, sing ng, dancing ana plaving in a particularly vivacious and' attractive manner. In addition there are excellent comedy interpolations, lavish modernistic settings, dance band spectacle, lo<s of lilting music, songs, and spec.ally turnDance Band” is good, bright enterta nment fur everyone, and will be popular with all types ol audience. “BRIGHT LIGHTS.” RETURN SCREENING TUESDAY “Bright Lights,” Joe E. Brown’s most- uproarious comedy romance which comes to the Opera House tomorrow for a return screening, is, without doubt the funniest talkie th b funnel-mouth comedian has ever made. Patricia. Ellis and William Gargan are co-featured in support of Joe E. “Flying Gloves,” the. sporting featurette which reviews all tho famous fights since the days of Jack Johnston, will also be screened on Tuesday. Regent Theatre DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAMME. Love and mystery form an intrigu ing combination in “Star of Midnight,” R.K.0.-Radio’s romantic rirama, starring William Powell am! Ginger Rogers. Telling a strikingly different type of love story, in whict the delectable Miss Roger-., fresh from triumphs in the musical “Top 11-it is the pursuer, and Powell, the ostensibly wary quarry, the picture deals with a baffling mystery in modern New York. A beautiful woman disappears, a newspaper columnist is killed, and three factions undertake the solution of the case, each with a separate motive. Powell and Miss Rogers team as a “Sherlock and Watson ” combination in running down elves. The two stars, long establistied among sc-ecn favourites, appear together for the I first time. Although they have worked at the same stmlus many times and acted on adjoining stage), Powell and Miss Rogers were never cast together until R.K.0.-Radio opened the microphones for this ’n;r-.guing mystery drama. “OLD MAN RHYTHM.”

A gay young college man who becomes so tangled up romantically tb.it his staid father has to enrol as freshman to straighten matters cut. stirs up entirely new comedy as tho chief character of R.K.0.-Radio’« filmusical, “Old Man Rhythm” Charles (Buddy) Rogers plays the freshman. George Barbier, the father. Jane Withers, the little “meanie,” of “Bright Eyes,” and the starlet of ‘Ginger” has an important rolo in Jnnet Gaynor film, which conies on ‘The Farmer Takes a Wife,” the new Wednesday to the Regent. Theatre.