AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 10 September 1941, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Now Showing: “Moon Over Burma”, co-starring Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston and Preston Foster. “MOON OVER BURMA!” A film eclipsing all previous records for laughter and drama in a; tropical setting is now showing at the Opera House. It is “Moon Over Burma” co-star-ring Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston and Preston Foster, and is guaranteed to set movie-goers howling with a laugh-intensity equivalent to the noise generated by a monsoon. The lads (don’t confuse ’em because both have Preston in their names) start things moving nicely at ' the cafe when they both fall in love with Miss Lamour, new short hair-do and all, who is engaged as a singer m the Rangoon cafe. Eventually, she winds up at the compound where they operate their teak business Further development of the story hinges on the fact that the boys went down to Rangoon to borrow' enough money to keep their business going. The man from whom they borrowed the money wants their business, too; and he sets an operative to x work to slow down the output of teak. But the real fun and romance comes in because the money lender’s daughter, played by Doris Nolan, loves Foster. He loves Lamour and she loves him. Miss Nolan, jealous, tells Robert Preston, who also loves Lamour. That makes for lots of fun before it is determined who will win who. On top of all that there are a log jam and forest fire for excitement.

Regent NOW SHOWING: “The Ramparts We Watch.’’ When a movie is acclaimed by critics, government officials and news commentators alike it rates universal attention. When that same movie is afterwards super-charged by.the addition of breath-taking sequences from the notorious Nazi propaganda film, “Baptism of Fire,” it becomes an event of unique importance to all moviegoers. The movie is “The Ramparts We Watch,” begun more than a year and a half ago as the first feature-length picture to be produced bv the editors of Time and Life and the March of Time.

An absolutely new kind of picture, “The Ramparts We Watch” was inspired by the disastrous trend of world events. Recreating the story of the great crisis of World War 1, it also was designed to reveal the forces of aggression which were plunging the world once more into war. It has been used to demoralize Norway, the Low Countries, Roumania & France. But German censorship was a stumbling block. There was no time to lose with a national defence emergency at hand. And so “The Ramparts We Watch" was released in Washington and several other cities without the forbidden Nazi sections. It was then that the March of Time learned that the Canadian Government held prints of the Nazi film which had been confiscated from a flying boat by British contraband control officers at Bermuda. The nrints were secured from the Canadian Government and included as a new ending for “The Ramparts We Watch” over the vigorous threats and protests of the German Government. After tremendous difficulties the March of Time has finally brought to

the screen “The Ramparts We Watch” as it was originally planned —a thrilling recreation of t;he

[sweep of world history from 1914 to 1940. Patrons are advised to reserve. I’Phone 601.