AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 25 May 1942, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House

Finally To-night: ‘YOUNG PEOPLE’ and “DEAD MEN TELL.” Next Attraction (Commences To-mor-row, Tuesday): “THE NIG'HT OF JANUARY 16TH.” and “MEET THE CHUMP.”

“THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH.”

Robert Preston, Ellen Drew and Nils Asther, bring the famous stage play, “The Night of January 16th” to the screen, commencing at the Opera House to-morrow (Tuesday), in a fast-moving detective story. The story opens with a murder in a New York Penthouse. Miss Drew is arrested for the murder. . Preston decides to prpve her innocent. Both soon become fugitives until the story moves to an unexpected climax in Havana. “MEET THE CHUMP.” Certainly one of the most boisterous comedies to reach the' screen in a long, long time, “Meet the Chump,'" starring Hugh Herbert, commencing at the Opera House to-morrow (Tuesday), furnishes a happy respite from the news which currently fills most of the front page. Herbert has .one of his most hilarious characterisations in a record of 100 screen hits, in th e role of the wacky guardian of a ten-million dollar estate. According to the terms of the legacy, the money is to be turned over to his nephew, played by Lewis Howard, when the latter becomes 26 years old—provided he’ gets married the same day. ' This the youth has intention of doing, but his uncle suddenly realises that somehow, a mere five million of the sum total has “disappeared.” Others in the cast include Jeanne Kelly, Shemp Howard, Anne Nagel, Lewis Howard, Kathryn Adams, Ed Gargan, Richard Lane and Hobart Cavanaugh.

Regent Theatre FINALLY TO-NIGHT. George Bernard Shaw’s superb succession to ?‘Pygmalioh,” “Major Barbara,” starring Wendy- Hiller and Rex Harrison. Commencing on Tuesday: “The Devil and Miss Jones,” starring Jean Arthur and Robert Cummings. Not long ago, Christopher Morley’s sensational best-seller “Kitty Foyle” was brought to the screen. Starring Ginger Rogers, the R.K.O. Radio film glorified millions of White Collar Girls—those hard-working sharecroppers in the dust bowl, of American business. Now, the same studios in quite a different fashion, has made a film championing another class of worker—the department

store employee. Entitled "The Devil and Miss Jones”, it stars J'ean Arthur, with Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn top-featured, and Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington S. Z. Sakall and William Damarest featured in support. The new picture is a riotous, fantastic ■ farce ; comedy, jammed with hilarious • situations and surprises, .-and poking fun at every phase of modern life. Filmed against well-known Manhattan landmarks, it uses a wide variety oi settings in the course of its high-soeed plot' and you will laugh out loud with the girl who taught a rich man how to live and a poor man how to love. A picture you must see !