AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1938, Page 12

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House “WAY OUT WEST." Here they are folks . . . the newest. desperadoes of the Gay '9o’s . . . Laurel and Hardy . . . they’ve come “Way Out West" hitch-hiking on a stage coach! Laurel and Hardy as a pair of gold prospectors and the prospects for laughs are great! "Way Out West” is their newest featurelength laugh hit . . . their newest and their funniest, which will be screened at the Opera House to-day, to-night and to-morrow. Can you picture what, happens when Stan and Ollie find themselves in the midst of the hard-boiled honky-tonks of the gold-dust days? No, you can’t. You’d have to see it to believe it, and even then you won’t believe it. Noble as ever, and as ever full of good resolves, Stan and Ollie come out west to deliver the valuable deed to a gold mine to Rosina Lawrence, daughter of an old companion prospector who had died and left the deed with them. Getting into a gay honky-tonk they reveal their mission to the unscrupulous owner, James Finlayson. Pretty Rosiiia had been left in his care and now works as the kitchen slavey. So what does that bad man, Finlayson, do? He tries to pass off Sharon Lynne, his wife, and a song-and-dance queen of the joint, as the rightful owner of the valuable gold mine. But do Stan and Ollie let him get away with it? They do not. They get into a barrel of trouble . . they get thrown out of town . . . but in the end our brave heroes return to vanquish the dastardly Finlayson, recover the deed to the gold mine, rescue Rosina, and make good their escape to the 'desert. “Way Out West" is full of chuckles and guffaws from the opening reel to the final fadeout. You’ll roar when Stan and Ollie start a flirtation with a fellow passenger on the stage coach only to discover that she is the wife of the sherixf! You’ll fall out of your seats v.hen vou see them do their own version of the modern swing dance; you'll split your sides when you watch the antics of the burro with whom, they start out on their trek "Way Out West." Half the time they’re riding the burro, and the other half of the time the burro is riding them! You laughed at “Bonnie Scotland"; howled at “The Bohemian Girl"; screamed at “Our Relations” —but just wait till you see them In ‘‘Way Out West”!

“JUNGLE JIM." A new serial, "Jungle Jim,” will commence its first of 12 instalments at the Opera House matinee to-mor-row, Chapter I being "In the Lion’s Den”! All the mystery, intrigue, and adventure for which Africa Is famous has been embodied in this film. The picture shows a man, armed only with a knife, in close combat with a lion. It shows elephants in stampede, before whom both man and wild animals flee in terror. It gives an authentic view of the natives of Africa — how they live and, when aroused, how they go into battle. Through the story runs an absorbing plot centreing about a white girl who. raised in the jungle, is worshipped by the natives as a goddess because of her extraordinary power to rule lions. The title role of "Jungle Jim” is played by the star Grant Withers. Opposite 'him is the charming Billy Jane Rhodes.

Regent Theatre The final screenings of "Western Gold," and “One Mile From Heaven” will be given at the Regent Theatre this afternoon and again this evening. “DEAD END" “Dead End,” Samuel Goldwyn’s film production based on the Broadway stage hit by Sidney Kingsley, comes to the Regent Theatre on Saturday, with Sylvia Sidney and Joel McCrea in the starring roles. This powerful drama of a day in the lives of a handful of humans who inhabit a “dead end” city street, where fashionable apartments rub elbows with the squalid tenements of the waterfront, which sei. records in its Broadway run and was cheered from Coast to Coast, reaches even higher heights in' the film version.

Sylvia is seen as Drina, the slum girl who is battling desperately to raise herself and her small brother Tommy to a better life; McCrea plays Dave, the poor architect she loves, who, in turn, loves Kay, Wendy Barry, who has found a way out of the slums into luxury and won’t return even for love; Humphrey Bogart is seen as Baby -Face Martin, the gangster with a price on his head, who braves death in the slum where he was born only to find that his own mother hates him and that Francey (Claire Trevor), his boyhood sweetheart, has taken life the easiest way. Allen Jenkins is seen as Hunk, “Baby Face’s” henchman, and the Dead End kids from the original New -York stage cast, Billy Halop, Gabriel Dell, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey and Barnard Puncley, relieve their famous characterisations of Tommy “T. 8. “Dippy,” "Spit” and Milty.