AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 22 February 1938, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House “STEP LIVELY JEEVES." Gentle Jeeves gives gangland the jitters as he proceeds to teach mobsters the principles of social decorum in the second Twentieth Century-Fox picture of the adventures of P. G. Wodehouse’s “Step Lively, Jeeves!" which will be finally screened to-day and to-night at the Opera House. Jeeves, again played by the elongated Arthur Treacher, is duped into believing he is an earl and heir to an immense unclaimed fortune, and is taken to America by a couple of swindlers to exploit the “suckers,” only to fall in with the toughest gunmen in the country. Patricia Ellis and Robert Kent play the romantic leads in the film, which also features Alan Dinehart and Helen Flint. “FURY OVER SPAIN." This short feature which will be finally screened to-day and to-night at the Opera House, shows gruesome and horrible moving pictures of the present conflict in Spain. The Censor has passed this as definitely unsuilable for children. < “AREN’T MEN BEASTS.” One of the most successful stage farces of recent times has been made into funny screen comedy, with Rob- ; ertson Hare and Alfred Drayton in their original stage roles, also head- , ing the screen cast. “Aren’t Men I Beasts” is the title of the year’s ! greatest laugh cure, London’s recordi breaking long-run comedy of a mil- [ lion laughs, coming to the Opera | House to-morrow and Thursday. Robertson Hare is seen in his I'unni--1 est role to date, as a little dentist who ' through no fault of his own, finds himself involved in a scandal with a i beautiful mysterious foreign, lady. Alfred Drayton, celebrated stage ac- ; tor, is co-starred with Hare, and to-, gether they prove to be the funniest comedy team since Stan Laurel met Oliver Hardy. Although Alfred Drayton has appeared in numerous films, this is the first time he has proved himself a screen comedian of starring ' calibre. The spectacle of Hare escaping from the police dressed as a I woman—hidden in the grandfather 1 clock—running out through fire esj capes—and selling tomatoes in a coster disguise, which, no matter how I much he tries, will not camouflage ; his voice—are just a few of the hilarious situations in this uproarious com- ' edy farce. Imagine, also, the limit- ! less laughs when Billy Milton, as : Hare’s son, has to establish a lady’s identity by means of a mole. Supi porting the comedy team is June 'Clyde, stage and screen player; Judy ’Kelly, Ruth Maitland, Amy Veness, Ellen Pollock, and others. Regent Theatre

“MURDER WITH PICTURES."

The triumph of the camera over the eyes of forty witnesses to a “perfect crime” is dramatically depicted in "Murder With starring Lew Ayres and Gail Patrick, which opens at the Regent Theatre to-day. “Murder With Pictures” is the story of a murder perpetrated in a crowded room during the height of a celebration. A newspaperman, Benny Baker, took a picture of a number of photographers who were making a photograph of the host, Ernest Cos-

= | sart, and even though he didn’t know it, the entire crime was indelibly recorded on celluloid by the all-seeing eye of his camera. The picture is oi additional interest because it features the newly-perfected Wirephoto System, which “telegraphs” pictures over great distances, in actual operation “WEDDING PRESENT” Paul Galileo’s top-notch story of the romance of a couple of Chicago newspaper reporters is brought to the screen as a comedy-romance in “Wedding Present,” the Joan Bennett-Cary Grant film which opens to-day at the Regent Theatre. A strong supporting cast, headed by George Bancroft and Conrad Nagel and including Gene Lockhart. Inez Courtney, Edward Brophy and Damon Ford, does its part in keeping the yarn rolling at top speed. “Wedding Present” introduces the stars as newshawks of a Chicago daily, constantly about to be fired for their stunts, and just as constantly making City Editor Bancroft relent, by turning in a front-page scoop. They spend a night going the rounds with a visiting Archduke—and send the Archduke back to the office with the big story of the day. Then Bancroft quits as city editor, and Grant succeeds him. He begins to become as hard-boiled as his former chief, and Miss Bennett doesn’t like it. She leaves the paper and flees to New York, where she becomes engaged. Grant soon follows her and attempts to win her back. He fails, and his failure is accentuated by the well-meaning plans of a gangster he has saved from drowning. After a few hours of celebration, Grant gets an idea. He’ll send Miss Bennett the most sensational wedding present of all time. He does. All New York is thrown into a dither by the historymaking present, and Miss Bennett, most impressed of all, leaves in her wedding gown to ride away with Grant “YOU CAN’T HAVE EVERYTHING." “You Can’t Have Everything” is the title of his latest singsational musical presentation, but production chief Darryl F. Zanuck proceeded to give it everything; Ryhthm, sweet, trembly and low-down; heavenly, song-hits by Gordon and Revel; scrumptious girls; a parade of personalities; flying fiddles; hot trumpets; honey crooners; dancing feet like rain on the roof; and the insanest antics from tho Ritzmaniacs. From the same studio that was responsible for ‘‘Sing, Baby, Sing,” "Thanks a Million,” “Pigskin Parade,” “One In a Million," ‘‘On the Avenue,” and “Wake Up and Live,” comes an outstanding cast in a singsational show topping them all. Alice Faye, the Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger, Louise Hovick, Rubinoff and his violin, and Tony Martin are featured in the picture showing at the Regent Thursday and Friday. “STELLA DALLAS.” Samuel Goldwyn has selected a new candidate for screen stardom in Barbara O’Neil, the St. Louis debutante who plays the coveted Alice Joyce role in “Stella Dallas,” the coming attraction for the week-end at the Regent. Mary Astor was originally slated for this role, but was forced to withdraw from the part due to her work in “Prisoner of Zenda.”