AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 12 August 1937, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House “KEEP YOUR SEATS, PLEASE.” At the Opera House to-day at the , matinee and again to-night, final screenings of "Keep / Your Seats, i Please.” the real laughter special, will < be shown. “CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.” “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” Warner Bros.’ stupendous production /suggested by the immortal poem of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, comes to th? Opera House, commencing to-morrow (Friday), for three matinees and three nights, with an all-star cas* headed by Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland—and over fifteen thousand extra people. The absorbing story of which the charge of the Light Brigade makes the sensational climax, begins in India, where two brothers, both army officers, are rivals for the hand of a beautiful Scottish girl,. The girl is betrothed to the elder, but during his absence, fighting on the frontier, she falls in love with the younger. She struggles against this love, believing herself obligated to her fi ance, but when she finds that both of her lovers have been ordered to the front against the Russians in the Crimea, she confesses her love for hi" brother to her betrothed, at the same time expressing her fear that the man she loves will be killed in battle. The elder brother and superior officer promises he will keep the younger from danger, and carries out this pledge when he sends his brother hack to headquarters with a note to the Commandant telling him that he has deliberately changed an order for retreat into an attack, he himself riding to his death on the battlefield. This is the terrific climax to the picture, but the preliminary setting in India is filled with thrilling action including border skirmishes, hand-to-hand fighting, the massacre of officers, men, women and children under a flag of-truce at Chukoti, and scorer of other breath-taking events. The picture is said to have been produced on a mammoth scale with colourful interior settings, including the magnificent palace of the Amir of Suristan with his retinue of Nautch dan' ing girls, slaves, and members of his court. Besides Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, the distinguished cast includes Patrie Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, David Niven, C. Henry Gordon, G. P. Huntley, junr.. Robert Barrat, Spring Byington, E. E. Clive, J Carroll Naish, Lumsden Hare, WaiteHolbrook, Princess Baigum, CharlesSedgwick, Scotty Beckett, Georg' Regas, Colin Kenny, Gordon Hart, and Helen Sanborn. Michael Curtiz directed the picture from the screen play by Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh.

Regent Theatre “BANJO ON MY KNEE.” Fighting and singing, laughing and loving, tempestuously living their own lives in their shanty-boat colony in the lower Mississippi River, the primitive and picturesque characters in the Twentieth Century-Fox drama with music, “Banjo on My Knee,” enact a story that provides distinctly different screen fare, which will be enthusiastically approved by every type of audience. It has been ideally cast with Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea in the leading roles, and important supporting* characterisations entrusted to such talented players as Helen Westley, Buddy Ebsen, Walter Brennan, Walter Catlett. Anthony Martin and Katherine de Mille. The story of the film, which opens at the Regent Theatre to-day. begins on the shanty-boat of Walter Brennan, whose son, Joel McCrea, is about to marry Barbara Stanwyck, a “land girl.” Brennan is entertaining the guests playing his one-man band “contraption.” Katherine de Mille wanted Joel herself. Victor Kilian, who buys the fish catches of the colony, tries to kiss Barbara. Joel knockl- - into the river. Searchers cannot find Kilian, and Joel decamps, believing himself a murderer. Kilian is not drowned, but Joel is far at. sen for six months. Walter Catlett, travelling photographer, tries to'persuade Barbara to go with him to New Or leans. She refuses. Joel returns and tells her that he is going to leave he” again, to set up a home for them in the West Indies. Barbara demands that he take her with him. He refuses, and she runs away with Catlett. Joel starts rowing the 500 mile* to New Orleans. Brennan packs his “contraption” and joins the procession. Barbara gets a job as dishwasher in the nearby Creole Cafe. Joel learns that Barbara has fled, and gives Catlett a beating. He goes to Creole, and agrees to sail for Havana, and misses seeing Barbara. Brennan, arriving qt Catlett’s, also hands him a lacing, and steers into the Creole where Im “wows” the customers playing hi? contraption. Barbara finds Brennar and he promises to find Joel. Budd; Ebsen, ne’er-do-well, brings word that Joel docks in New Orleans. Joel arrives in time to see Barbara with Catlett, and wrecks the place, going to gaol. Katherine pays his fine and he goes back to the colony with her , to marry her.

“TRAIL DUST." ' Headed by Earl Askam and Tom Halligan, a male chorus, is heard in “Trail Dust," Paramount’s latest “Hopalong Cassidy” Western, which begins on Saturday at the Regent Theatre. Askam, star of the musical stage, and Halligan, singing star of radio, introduce “Wide Open Spaces,” a new Western song by Harry Tobias and Jack Stern. “ALONG CAME LOVE.” A lively story of how one girl got her man in spite of the greatest of obstacles is told in Paramounts “Along Came Love,” a gay comedy co-featuring Irene Hervey and Charles Starrett, which begins on Saturday at the Regent Theatre. \ GET RID OF PILES! Zann Treatment gives immediate and permanent relief. Send ninepence in stamps for generous sample. Zann Pty., Box 952HJ, Wellington.