AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 21 July 1941, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Finally To-night: “Convoy.” Next attraction, commencing to-morrow, Tuesday: “In Old Monterey” and “Mutiny in the Big House.” “ IN OLD MONTEREY Gene Autry, Public Cowboy No. 1, sets a new all-time high in entertainment in the super musical western drama, “In Old Monterey,” commencing at the Opera House to-morrow (Tuesday), and which he is as usual supported by Sm’.ley Burnette . and June Storey, whilst others in the cast include George ( Gaboy > Hayes, The Hoosier Hot Shots, Sa_ le an Sailie, popular Hill-Billy E ers, The Ranch Boys, Billy Lee and Jonathan Hale. “In Old Monterey an excitingly different Western story of the struggle of a .group J?* Western ranchers to regain tneir land, confiscated by the Government for an army bombing base. Autiv. as an army officer, chosen by the government as an intermediary between the army and the succeeds with a peaceful settlement. The songs included in the picture are. “It Happened in Old Monterey . “Barn in the Saddle,” “My Buddy , “It Looks Like Ram”, “Tumbling Tiimklewceds,” “Little Pardnei, “Virginia Blues,” “The Vacant Chair and “Columbia, Gem of the Ocean. “MUTINY IN THE BIG HOUSE” Smashing action is the keynote of “Mutiny in The Big House,” a thrilling prison drama by an actual prison riot, which commences at the Opera House to-morrow (Tuesday). The film is a tribute to Father Patrick O’Neil, a prison chaplain, who risked his life to break up a riot in Colorado State Penitentiary in 1929, and for which he was awarded the Carnegie Medal for heroism. The story deals with J '~ ~ lives of men behind bars. Father Joe, a prison chaplain, works for the rehabilitation of Johnny Gates, sent to prison for a ten dollar robbery. Reu Manson, a murderer, tries to convert Johnny to his anti-social philosophy. Red engineers a mass prison break with hundreds of convicts. Manson, the man of murder, and Father Joe, man of mercy, face each other, one with a gun and the other unarmed, Johnny proves that the Father’s teaching has not been in vain. The three major roles in the film are portrayed by Charles Bickford as Father Joe. Barton Mac-Lane as Red Manson, and Dennis Moore, a newcomer, as Johnny. Regent Finally To-night: “The Great Victor Herbert.” Commencing Tuesday: “South of Pago Pago.” Edward Small knew that he had a great screen property in “South of Pago Pago”, an epic of South Seas romance and intrigue. That is why he spared neither energy nor expense, and chose an impressive cast headed by Jon Hall, who won sensational fame as the hero of “The Hurricane.” Other important names in the cast include Frances Farmer, Victor McLaglen, Gene T -'-'khart, Douglas Dumbrille, Olympe Bradna 1 and Frances Ford. Edward Small has a number of successful films to his credit including “The Count of Monte Cristo” and “The Man in the Iron Mask” and in “South of Pago Pago” he has produced the oiggest thriller since “The Hurricane.” “South of Pago Pago” tells strange a ventures of Bucko Larson and Ruby Taylor on an expedition to a fabulous pearl bed. Larson uses all kinds of foul methods to enslave the natives on the island of Manoa so thdt they will dive

for pearls. Kehane, ■ handsome son of the island chief, falls in love with Ruby, never dreaming that she is a Singapore cafe girl. Things go from bad to worse for the innocent natives until Ruby manages to save the day for the islanders and to free them from Larson’s cunning and violence. The principal location site in mming “South of Pago Pago” was on the famous Kona coast on the island of Hawaii. Here 2,000 natives were employed, 300 canoes were assmebled and an entire native village built near the foam : ”~ surf. For technical reasons, was necessa*— to make many key scenes on a sound stage., so Producer Small called in his noted art director, John Du Casse Schulze, and commissioned him to build an exact replica of the village. Plans are now onen at the theatre. 'Phone 601. ,