AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 15 December 1937, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House "FRESHMAN LOVE.” Warner Bros.’ rollicking college comedy, “Freshman Love,” based on a story idea by George Ade, comes to the Opera House to-day. lheie is an all-star comedy cast including Frank McHugh as the college coach; Patricia Ellis as the president's daughter; Warren Hull, stroke oar, who has the romantic lead with Miss Ellis; Joe Cawthorne as Hull’s father; George E. Stone as an eccentric and musically inclined coxswain; Mary Treen and Alma Lloyd as coeds and fellows conspirators of the president’s flirtatious daughter; and Henry O’Neill as the president. Four rousing college songs are sung in the picture, two by Hull alone, one by Miss . Ellis and the fourth by Hull and Miss Ellis. In addition to the singing, one of the number introduces a most novel dance step. The lyrics were specially written for the production by Jack Scholl and Joan Jasmyn, while the n/csic is by M. K. Jerome. "THE BIG NOISE.” More hilarious laughs and big thrills than seen on the screen in many a day are packed into the Warner Bros, comedy drama, “The Big Noise,” which'opens at the Opera House today. There is a lilting lightness to the film that makes it highly humorous, punctuated by exciting episodes. There also is a glamorous personal romance of big business with its attendant rackets. The story concerns the ousting of the head of a big corporation because he refuses to produce inferior products. Retired, the business man is fretful, and finally pulls the wool over the eyes of his wife and doctor, who insist he is ill, by buying a partnership with a young chemist in the Check Club Cleaning establishment and pretending to spend his time playing checkers. There is a romance between the business man’s daughter, his partner, and the son of the villain who ousted him. The girl meets the chemist secretly, and to the joy of her father and consternation of her mother, who is seeking a society-son-in-law, she hands the son of the villain his passports and establishes diplomatic relations with the' poor but promising chemist. The climax comes in a thrilling episode in which the business man by a clever ruse pits two bands of racketeers against each other. They shoot the matter out, and all land in the morgue. Guy Kibbee has tiie featured role of the business man, while Alma Lloyd and Warren Hull tire the young lovers. Dick Foran is the young romantic villain, and William Davidson his arch-villain father. Regent Theatre The final screenings of the present double feature programme at the Regent Theatre, “The Great Gambini, and “Her Husband Lies,” will be at tne matinee this afternoon at 2.15 and again to-night 8 o’clock. “WHITE BONDAGE.” POWERFUL SCREEN MELODRAMA. Petite Jean Muir, who won her first screen fame in the role of a country girl, appears again in such a role in Warner Bros.’ engrossing melodrama of America’s cotton growers and pickers, “White Bondage,” which will commence its season at the Regent Theatre to-morrow. “White Bondage” is a melodramatic tale of the lives of the “share-croppers” in remote regions of the U.S.A.’s far famed Dixie—those who grow and pick the cotton for absentee landlords, who subsist solely upon the credit extended to them by general stores owned in turn

by these lords of the land. Miss Aluit plays the grand-daughter of one of these share-croppers. Gordon Oliver, whose ascent has been swift in Wai net Bros.’ pictures, is her leading man. He seeks to relieve the people of this benighted region of the burden of virtual peonage under which they exist. They are, actually, in a "white bondage” as bad or worse than the black bondage which was slavery for the negro. Joseph King and Virginia Brissac are a villainous couple who run the store in this picture. Others who give outstanding performances in "White Bondage”, are Howarg Phillips, Addison Richards, Gordon Hart. Harry Davenport and Eddie Anderson. SATURDAY. SPARKLING. ROMANTIC FILM. Transatlantic romance, mirthful and modern, is the theme of Paramount’s "I Met Him in Paris." new Claudette Colbert comedy-romance in which she will be seen, with Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young. next Saturday at the Regent Theatre. An American girl i vacationing abroad. Miss Colbert A faced with, the perplexing problem of choosing between tw men. equally -> charming, equally handsome, with whom she is equally m love. The two swains put on a lusty scrap to win their lady's affections. with no holds barred. ’ Most of the action takes place "in the Swiss Alt's. with scenic backgrounds and winter sports sequences of thrilling grandeur. The film was directed by Wesley Ruggles.