AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 26 March 1943, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Now Showing: “Texas’’ and “So’s Your Aunt Emma.” “TEXAS.” A thundering epic of heroic adventure, Columbia’s “Texas.” commencing to-day (Friday) has been enthusiastically hailed as the greatest of all action pictures you’ve everdreamed of rolled into one. Starred in the suspense-crammed new' “film, savage saga of lawless frontiers, of gun-smoking thrills and hoof-thund-ering action, William Holden and Glenn Ford are seen as youthful adventurers, trigger-quick to defend freedom and defy injustice; Miss Trevor is seen as the fighting, vixenish daughter of the plains’ who finds difficulty choosing between the two. Others in the cast include George Bancroft, Edgar Buchanan, Don Beddoti. William Robertson and Addison Richards.

Classified as top ranking screen entertainment, “So’s Your Aunt Emma” starring Zasu Pitts and featuring. Roger Rryor, Warren Hymer and Gwen Kenyon commences at the Opera House to-day (Friday). Aunt Emma goes to the city to see a young man perform in the boxing ring, for the reason that many years before she had been enamoured of the bov’s father. She finds that the youth is the pawn of gangsters, and is herself suspected of being a notorious gun-woman allied with “the opposition.” Accepting this characterisation because it may result in freeing the young boxer from the clutches of the underworld, she launches a one-woman battle against the gang.

Regent Theatre

Finally To-night?' “So Ends Our Night,” starring Margaret Sullavan and Fredrick March. Commencing Friday: “Blossoms In The Dust,” starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon.

For the first time in the history of the motion picture, a living woman selected the star she wanted to recreate her life on the screen. The woman is Mrs Edna Gladney of Fort Worth, superintendent of the Texas Children’s Home and Aid Society, who has found happy homes for more than 2,000 babies. The star is Gre'er Garson, in “Blossoms in the Dust.” Miss Garson portrays Mrs Gladney’s life from her young womanhood, when she met and fell in love with ;Sam Gladney, to the present day. The first essentially dramatic picture to be filmed in technicolour, the costuming and settings form a framework for the beauty, of red-haired, green-eyed Miss Garson, whose eyefilling colouring makes her the perfect subject of colour. Felix Bressart, as a gruff but kindly country doctor, and Fav Holden, as Miss Garson’s mother, head the supporting cast, which also features Marsha Hunt, Samuel S. Hinds, and more than 800 babies and children. Mervyn Leßoy, who gave the screen “Escape” and “Waterloo Bridge”, directed the film.