Opera House

Grey River Argus, 19 August 1937, Page 3

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“LADY FROM NOWHERE.” Blending comedy and melodrama in well proportioned doses, “Lady from Nowhere,” the Columbia picture now at the Opera House, presents Mary Astor in one of the most entertaining screenplays in which she has appeared. It is the story of a manicurist who witnesses a gangland murder and has to flee to Clearview, a small town, where she meets Bari Daniels, a young newspaper reporter. Learning the killer is on her trail, Polly hides at the farm of Daniel’s grandfather, as a runaway heiress. This makes matters worse for “Gramp,” his eye on a reward, notifies the father of the real runaway heiress, and gangsters descend on the town. Seriocomic situations follow and rise to an exciting climax. The “Lady from Nowhere” introduces Charles Quigley to the screen in the romantic lead opposite Miss Astor. The newcomer is handsome. Others in the cast are Rita La Roy, Thurston Hall, Gene Morgan, and Claudia Colemand. The picture was directed by Gordon Wiles, Fred Niblo, junr., Arthur Strawn and Joseph Krumgold. PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. Victor McLagen, Freddie Bartholomew and Gloria Stuart, are starred in “Professional Soldier,” which commences at the Opefa House to-mor-row.

“LLOYDS OF LONDON.” The surge of the most dramatic era in English history culminates in the roaring thunder of the epochal naval Battle of Trafalgar is an outstanding highlight of “Lloyds of London,” Twentieth Century-Fox screen triumph, which commences on Monday at the Opera House. Authentic to the last detail; Lord Nelson’s great victory, the foundation for future glory of Britain, is reproduced in all the grandeur of the days of wooden ships and iron men. Seven eighteenth century sailing vessels were built, rigged and manned by Chris Christensen, veteran seaman, one of the greatest. authorities on wooden ships. Having, in his half-century before the mast, shipped on every type of sailing vessel, Chris knew every detail of their construction. There were two pirate sloops built for “Lloyds of London” on a set representing the harbour in eighteenth century Norfolk. There was a schooner, a fishing smack, two ships in a French harbour, besides the masts and rigging of a French frigate and of several fishing boats. But his masterpiece was a replica of the quarter deck, poop deck and the below decks of the H.M.S. Victory, the flagship on which Lord Nelson fought and died at. Trafalgar. Darryl F. Zanuck, selected Kenneth Macgowan as associate producer of “Lloyds of London,” stars Freddie Bartholomew and Madeleine Carroll, heading an impressive cast featuring Sir Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, C. Aubrey Smith and Virginia Field.