AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 23 February 1942, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Finally To-night; "ARIZONA.” Next Attraction (Commences To-mor-row. Tuesday): “MEET THE WILDCAT” and "GAMBLING ON THE HIGH SEAS.” “MEET THE WILDCAT." Comedy and suspense compete for attention in the hilarious comedy drama, “Meet the Wildcat,” commencing at the Opera House tomorrow (Tuesday), with Margaret Lindsay and Ralph Bellamy sharing romantic honours. Highlighted by rollicking comedy as well a’s mastery and suspense, the fast moving drama is told in and around the famed art galleries of the Mexican metropolis. Miss Lindsay has the role of a dare-devil girl photographer for a noted picture magazine and Bellamy portrays the detective with whom she falls in love after knocking him out with her camera. Joseph ShildkraUt is featured as the mysterious leader of the underworld organisation and Allen Jenkins has the comedy lead as the befuddled taxi-driver who turns detective with near disastrous consequences to all concerned. Other favourites in the cast include Jerome Cowan, Robert 0. Davis and Frank Puglia. “GAMBLING ON THE HIGH SEAS.” The tranquility of operations on board a gambling ship, moored outside the three mile limit off the coast of -California, is rather rudely disturbed in Warner Bros.’ new film, “Gambling on The High Seas,” commencing at the Opera House to-mor-row (Tuesday), with Wayne Morris and Jane Wyman in the leading roles. The locale of the greater part of this intriguing story provides possibilities galore for situations packed full of the kind of action which one naturally expects to see in a film of this type. Morris is a newspaper reporter, who with the effective aid of Miss Wyman goes but to expose the intricacies of the highly organised gambling racket and putting together a jig-saw of circumstances surrounding two murders.

Regent Theatre NOW SHOWING: “IT STARTED WITH EVE,” starring Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, and Robert Cummings. Having Motion Picture Academy “Oscars” as proof of their artistry, co-stars Deanna Durbin and Charles Laughton of “It Started With Eve,” are said to reach new heights as comedy stars in the Universal film opening Friday at the Regent Theatre. Miss Durbin, winner of a special Academy Award in 1937, and Laughton, who captured an “Oscar” for his title role in “Henry VIII” in 1932, appear together for the first time in the new romantic comedy. Deanna’s nine previous films, particularly the five directed by Henry Koster, have established her as an accomplished comedienne, as well as a romantic singing star. Laugton’s “Ruggles of Red Gap” and other comedy portrayals have proved his ability in the comedy line. In “It Started With Eve,” Miss Durbin is seen as f a hatcheck girl who is introduced into a New York multi-millionaire’s home as his son’s fiancee. As the elderly industrialist, Laughton has essentially a comedy role, but it is also a characterisation said to be comparable in artistic fitness to his “Captain Bligh” find oher triumphs. Robert Cummings, probably the. screen's most popular leading man to-day,, and also one of Hollywood’s most apt com-| edians, appears opposite Miss Durbin. Veteran comedians Guy Kibbee and Walter Catlett, both essaying new types of roles, add to the fun. Margaret Tallichet is seen as the “other woman” in Cummings’ life and the east also includes Catharine Doucet, Charles Coleman, Dorothea Kent, Gus Schilling and Irving Bacon. Deanna Durbin sings five numbers and plays her own accompaniments. The outstanding film laugh of the year. Don’t miss “It Started With Eve.” Bookings are advised. Plans are now open. ’Phone 601.