AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 4 August 1936, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House “THANKS A MILLION.” If it’s songs one is looking .for. “Thanks a Million” has mor e than.one can count; if it’s laughs, it’s the season’s top job show; and if it’s romance and stars, how about Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak. Fred Allen, tPatsy Kelly. Paul Whiteman and I.is band with Ramona, Rubinoff and the Yacht Club Boys I Crammed with entertainment. 20th Century spectacular new fun-music film opened yesterday to crowded houses at the Opera House-. It has a frivolous plot, woven about the wildcat adventures of a troupe making one night stops under the masterful misguidance of comedian Fred Allen. Dick Powell is the company’s songster, and Ann Dvorak its leading dancei. Allen manages to get the troupe entangled with a bunch of wild-eyed politicians, and before they have '-xtricated themselves, plenty happens. The film’s songs, largely from the pens of Gus Kahn and 'Arthur .Tohns'on, include “Thanks a Million,” “I’ve Got

a Pocket Full of Sunshine” and “Sugar Plum.” “THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP.’ “The Old Curiosity Shop.” the greatest of all Charles Dickens’ immortal classics, has at last been translated to the screen. It comes on Friday to th,.. Opera House. All that yus im mi rtal masterpiece ever conjured up i>. our imagination, we now see am! hear ns if in real life, befo ,- e oi r enraptured gaze its beauty, mo.dug simplicity, quaint humour and endeaiirr characters ar c here, all g-orumsly enhanced in a masterpiece oi entertainment that will forever remain a treasured memory. Regent Theatre “LOTTERY LOVER.” One of the most delicious screen comedies, “Lottery Lover," bi g ns at th,. Regent to-day. It is '.he ->t«>ry of a gallant crew of young cadets, in Paris. One girl-shy .fellow wins a lottery which they have organised. With it he wins their pooled resources, .the fight Io woo the glamorous darling of "lhe ‘l’Fo'ies Bergere’’- -<nd Hilady’s garter ns his colling card. Tne Iml' has found th,, one girl of Im heart, which complicates his situation. The ingenious story affords screen eu I ertia i omen t of a high ordei. that sparkles with the zest ami mind) ol Hi., parisiati boulevards. 1.--W A.\ie.-tni-ns in a gram! performanec as Jim winner of the lottery; “Pat’ Patterson, charming English beaut). >s the girl he really loves; and Peggy F.'-ars, described as “the best-dressed woman on Broadway, is the lasiinat ing actress. Miss Fears discloses that she is a- film personality of the first |.. 111 ] < —smart, talented, beautiful and magnetic. Not the least of th e high points is tier singing of two enchanting numbers by Jay Gorney and Don Hartman, “Ting-A-Ling-A-Ling” and and “There’s a. Bit of paree m You William Thiele directed this Fox hit, with Al Rockett, as producer. The store is th t . work of Siegfried Al. Herzig'and Maurice Ilanline, with dialogue by Sam Hellman. Th ( . cast ot “Lot-ierv Lover” includes such wellknown ilollywoodites as Sterling Holloway, Reginald. Denny, Walter King, Nick Foran and Eddie Nugent.