AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 15 January 1940, Page 12

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House SCREENING FINALLY TO-NIGHT. \ “STAND UP AND FIGHT.” Lashing thrills, tender Jove, tumu;tous adventure on the raw untamed frontier of Virginia, such is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s outdoor fiction melodrama “Stand Up and F.gm. with Wallace Beery, and Taylor in the starring roles, to be finally screened at the Opera House to-day and to-night. NEXT ATTRACTION (Commences To-morrow): “FIVE OF A KIND.” The Dionne Quintuplets have graduated! Having served their screen apprenticeship, they are now revealed as full-fledged entertainers—singing, dancing, makin gmusic and fun—m heir third and what is heralded their best picture, “Five Of A Kind.” This 20th Century Fox production, which will be screened at the Opera Hou< to-morrow (Tuesday) also on Wednesday and Thursday, provides a striking setting for the deVghtful 1 ttle ladies, as it whirls in and out of Broadway, highlighting the exciting action and romantic excitement of two rival, newspaper and radio reporters. It has been two years s-nca Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Marie and Emelie emoted before the camera in a 20th Century-Fox feature, and in those two years they have “grown up.” In addition to the amazing performance of the Quints, the story of “Five Of A Kind," which revolves around the attempt, of the two si ar reporters to bring the Quints to New York for a personal appearance n a Broadway auditorium ( is replete with thrills. On the trail of a missing heiress, Claire Trevor, ace reporter, is outwitted by Cesar Romero. He inveigles Clair into lifting a. p'rnev story from his pocket, which results in her losing her job. While sce.< ag solace from her troubles .’n a rrov.e theatre, Claire sees a news film of the Quints and conceives thp idei of putting them on the a : r in a series or broadcasts. The wily Romero, learning of her plan, proceeds to the Canadian town ahead of her and by representing himself as a police inspector from New York has C’airj and her girl friend, Inez Courtney, arrested. From then on one thrill-pa'-ked .situation is said to follow another with the Quints coming througn triumphantly in an eltctrifvmg climax. In addition to Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero as the romantic leads, Jean Hersholt plays the beloved doctor of the Quints. Slim Summer-ville,-Henry Wilcoxon, Inez Courtney, John Qualen, Jane Darwell and Pauline Moore are also featured.

REGENT: NOW SHOWING:"FOUR DAUGHTERS."

What happens when four devoted sisters fall in love with the same man? “Four Daughters,” the Warner Bros, picture based on a Fannie Hurst story takes that as its theme and develops it into a richly human story. The four daughters of an elderly musician all give their hearts unanimously to a captivating young man who comes to live at their home, and he in turn is enraptured by the youngest of them. And it is this girl, scarcely more than a child, who bravely sacrifies her own happiness because of a mistaken notion that by so doing she will insure the happiness of her oldest sister. More by chance than by design the tangle into which the lives of the four girls is thrown is eventually unravelled so that each achieves the destiny that makes her happiest. The cast of “Four Daughters” is of unusual interest in itself. In the first place, three of the four sisters are played by three girls who are sisters in actuality, Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane—the fourtn sister being enacted by Gale Page In the second place, two young actors of emphatic promise are both given their first big film roles in this picture. They are Jeffrey Lynn, a handsome youth who exudes so much charm that he is expected to win immediate fan favour, and John Garfield, considered the best young character actor developed on the New York stage since Cagney, Muni and Robinson came to Hollywood. The substantial base of tried and proven acting ability is provided by such reiaible troupers as Claude Rains, May Robson, Frank McHugh and Dick Foran.

BRITISH MYSTERY-THRILLER. Eagerly looked for, for montns past in Britain “The Arsenal Stadium Mystery” which is likely to have its title altered to “The Crowd Looked On,” has been completed, and prints of the film are on the way to New Zealand. “The Cinema”—London, refers to it as “a totally different murder-mystery melodrama a most ingenious story of how Scotland Yard traps the man responsible for the murder of a footballer in the course of a big match." Leslie Banks stars in an airy light comedy role, with Greta Gynt as a personable disti acted heroine. Then

of the sterling cast are lan Mac Lean. Anthony Bushell, Esmond Knight, Brian Worth, Richard Norris. Wyndham Norris, Liane Linden, George Allison, Tom Whittaker and members of the famous members of the Arsenal team.—A.G.B.D. release.