AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 8 September 1939, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House NOW SHOWING: Technicolour musical, “The Goldwyn Follies.” Presenting a dazzling array of stars and a variety of talent. "The Goldwyn Follies” a technicolour musical extravaganza, to be screened at the Opera House to-day. to-night and also to-morrow and Monday, marks the first entertainment in Samuel Gold- ■ wyn’s 25 years of picture making to carry the producer’s name. The musical, which also marks the producers swing to the colour standard, has been produced on a scale more lavish and magnificent than anything the screen has ever known. Goldwyn invaded every field of entertainment to find stars to augment the cast, headed by sauve Adolphe Menjou and the beautiful young star Andrea Leeds. From radio he took Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, the comedy sensation: Kenny Baker, silver-voiced romancist; irrepressible Phil Baker and i his accordion; from Grand Opera | lovely Helen Jepson, and the newcom- | er Charles Kullmann; from the world of the dance, the beautiful Zorina and George Balanchine’s American ballet of the Metropolitan Opera; and from musical comedy, google-eyed Bobby Clark to clown with petite Ella Lo-1 gan. Then . there are the goldwyn girls as well as Hollywood’s twelve loveliest and most talented tap-danc-ers. Jerome Cowan, Nydia Westman. Frank Shields and a hundred more who fit into the pattern of one of Ben Hecht’s best stories, a comedy of Hollywood which casts Menjou as a film producer out of touch with his public, and Andrea Leeds as the typical American girl whom he hires as “Miss Humanity” to keep him posted on what the public wants. “The Goldwyn Follies” boasts the last and perhaps the greatest score written by the late George Gershwin, “I Was Doing All Right”; “Love Walked In”; “I Love to Rhyme,” and “Love is Here to Stay.”

REGENT: Final screening of “BOOLOO" and “IN OLp SANTA FE.” Commencing Saturday. Another splendid double feature programme, “THE LADY VAN- | ISHES” and “OVER THE WALL." j “The Lady Vanishes” will hold you in surprise with its action filled story. Nearly all the action takes place on a train in Central Europe. An apparently harmless but irritatingly whimsical old English governess, Dame May Whitty, vanishes. Not a sign, not a trace remains of her presence, and even the passengers who have seen her have their own very good reasons for forgetting her existence—all except the young English girl, played by Margaret Lockwood. The climax is a pitched battle between a group of passengers, all English, in a couple of carriages switched off on to. a side line, and secret agents and soldiers of some Power unnamed trying to prevent the carrying of a secret to the British Foreign Office. You’ll be clammy with excitement by this. Michael Redgrave is the grand new leading man introduced, and his sly but youthful humour is a welcome change. Paul Lukas does a splendid job as a sinister figure and Margaret Lockwood is a beautiful heroine, though hey acting is little more than competent. This Gaumont- . British-Dominions film is joyous entertainment.

THE ASSOCIATE PICTURE. “Over the Wall,” a melodrama having to do with a man falsely thrown into prison and his sweetheart who believes in him and finally obtains his

freedom. A thrilling story originally written by Warden Lewis E. Lawes, of Sing Sing Prison, “Over The Wall” has an authentic ring that combines gripping drama with romance. Foran’s singing voice, always so appealing in his Western pictures is heard to excellent effect. He becomes a

member of the prison choir, whose songs are broadcast weekly, and thus he yins for himself a tremenaous public and the attention of the governor, which is persuaded to listen to some new evidence which clears’.hifn of the false accusations. Patrons may reserve by ringing 'Phone-601;'?