AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 22 January 1943, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Now Showing: “Hot Spot” starring Betty Grable and Victor Mature, also “Silver Stallion.” I "HOT SPOT” Five men went for her in a big way . . . yet they all had reasons for wanting her out" of the way. That is the background of the year’s most exciting, spine-tingling drama ‘‘Hot Spot” now showing at the Opera House with Hollywood’s three most thrilling per sonalities, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, and Carole Landis who have the leading roles in a story that will hold any audience spellbound. Mature as a promoter, Alan Mowbray as an actor, and Allyn Joslyn as a newspaper columnist select Carole, a waitress, as the girl they are going to glamorize and make the darling of cafe society. The plan succeeds, and Carole is offered a Hollywood contract which she accepts without consulting her backers. The next day she is found murdered. Mature is really! oni the spot, because detective Laird Cregar has decided to prove that he is the killer. Betty has meanwhile fallen for Vic, although he is suspected of murdering her sister, and she hides evidence which apparently adds to his guilt. Together Vic and Betty learn the real murderer, and make the detective accept the truth in the) most amazing denouement ever shown on the screen. “SILVER STALLION.” Notable for two exceptional factors —some of the finest animal action scenes ever photoghaphed and a fresh type of entertainment —“Silver Stallion” now snowing at the Opera House . This cyclonic western thriller, tells the story of a boy, who has turne/i horse thief, and of" his horse, “Thunder” which finally shows him the way to a full and happy life David Sharpe, Chief Thunder Cloud, “Thunder” the wonder horse, and “Captain Bools” tamous police dog have prominent roles.

Regent Theatre

Commencing Friday: “Ride ’em Cowboy,” starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.

The most elaborate as well as the funniest of the Abbott and Costello comedies, Universal’s “Ride ’em Cowboy,” takes over Friday at the Regent Theatre. " Headliners in the large supporting cast are Dick Foran. Anne Gwynne, Johnny Mack Brown, Samuel S. Hinds, the Merry Macs and Ella Fitzgerald. Featured musical and dancing aggregations include the Hi-Hatters, the Buckaroo Band and the Ranger Chorus of 40. BackI grounded against an Arizona dude range, “Ride ’em Cowboy” contains I everything necessary in the way of } parade grounds for the antics of the I two stellar comedians, Abbott and Costello; including Indians, rodeo aces, bucking broncos, wild steers and feminine pulchritude. Among the players are a bevy of bathing beauties and the seven most beautiful cowgirls in the world. Two of the most picturesque dude ranches in Southern California —>Ihe B-Bar-A,. near Newshall and Rancho Chihuahua I in Solemint Canyon—were among, the four location sites used by Direc- j tor Arthur Lubin in the production. of the offering. A third spot was > Ravenna, a whistle stop 60 miles from Hollywood, where Universal | built a tepee village. The story taxes Abbott and Costello from their berths as hot-dog vendors at a Long Island rodeo, shanghais them into Arizona and establishes them as cowboys on a dude ranch and from then on the laughs are continuous. Romantic interest in “Ride ’em Cowboy” is carried by beautiful Miss Gwynne, Loran and Brown. Miss Gwynne portrays a rodeo star arid daughter of the dude ranch owner. Foran is the author of best seller Western novels who has never been west of Broadway, while Brown is the ranch foreman. You’ll see the most amazing exhibition of roping, shooting and riding that ever drove an audience hysterical in this, the wildest, funniest of all Abbott and Costello comedies. Plus excellent featurettes, which includes two outstanding and intensely interesting shorts, entitled “Cavalcade of Aviation” and “Annapolis Salutes Navy”; also a cartoon, “Candy Kid”; Universal News, Pathe Gazette and Regent Overseas News feature further scenes of the Battle of the Solomons; also Sydney’s biggest fire for seven , years.