AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 22 May 1942, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Now Showing: Matinee to-day: “Young People,’’ starring Shirley Temple; also Excellent Featurettes. To-night: “Young People” and “Dead Men Tell.” “YOUNG PEOPLE.” Bubbling over with mirth and melody, and with Jack Oakie and Charlotte Greenwood sharing the fun, “Young People,” new 20th. Cen-tury-Fox hit is now showing at the Opera House. It has been heralded as the most enjoyable of al] Shirley Temple’s 22 pictures. Boasting five new song hits, the story pattern concerns two small-time vaudeville entertainers, Oakie and Greenwood, who adopt Shirley. She grows up with them on the stage—but they decide the stage is not the place to raise children, so they retire to a small New England farm. Their attempts to be well-liked in the reticent town meet with rebuffs and sly pokes at which they are slow to take offence. The denouement comes when Shirley, in an attempt to put over a sophisticated revue at the annual school performance, is booed off the stage by the shocked and indignant parents. The film, has a stirring and surprising climax which caps the unusual story.

Picturegoers to the Opera House to-night, also to-morrow and Monday evenings, will have a special entertainment treat when Shirley Temple’s latest hit, “Young People,” also the latest “Chan” series, “Dead Men Tell”, starring Sidney Toler, will be screened. At the Special Children’s Matinees to be held to-day, also to-morrow and Monday, “Young Peeople” will be the main attraction, plus outstanding featurettes. Regent Theatre Finally To-night: “She Knew All The Answers,” starring Joan Bennett and Franchot Tone, without question the love and laugh frolic of the year. Commencing Friday: Major Barbara.” Produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal from -George Bernard Shaw’s play. The greatest picture of 1942! George Bernard Shaw, introduces the characters in his superb successor to “Pygmalion”— “Major Barbara.” Wendy Hiller as Major BarbaraAn earl’s granddaughter, sacrificing sables for sinners—collecting confessions that could only be whispered one woman to another—Surpassing her magnificent performance as Eliza Doolittle in “Pygmalion.” Rex Harrison as Adolphus Cusins —Greek scholar and ardent lover— Beneath his calm exterior, unscrupulous desire —A man of doubtful parentage and definite ambition —Renounced his birthright for a fortune and his conscience for a woman.

Robert Morley as Andrew Unders'haft — Millionare munitions manufacturer —Unshamed of his doubtful parentage—Profiteer in mutilation and murder —And too busy to know how many children he had.

Robert Newton as Bill Walker — Scoffer, renegade, bully, supreme egotist—lntoxicated by his own importance—Afraid he’d die before his him—Trying to regain the love of a converted guttersnipe—and all “wore aht.”

Emlyn Williams as Nobby Price — Self confessed sinner—Fraud, thief and hypocrite—A wily rascal Who confessed to beating his own mother to get a free hand.

Sybil Thorndyke as The General — A good woman, wholesome, honest, but highly ambitious —She took without a blush £loo,ooo—a joint soul-saving contribution from two expensive sinners.

Marie Lohr as Lady Britomart-— Autocratic matriarch—but beneath this frigid veneer—just a woman — jealous of her children’s affections — confounded by her husband’s amazing dual personality. Walter Hudd as Stephen Undershaft —Innocuous, bumptious prig who chose his parents incongruous-ly-—Thought he knew everything but knew nothing and was slowly being choked by his old school tie. Sables or Salvation? Decide after you have seen the wittiest, cleverest, most entertaining film production to come from British studios: George Bernard Shaw’s “Major Barbara,” starring Wendy Hiller,