AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 22 April 1943, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Finally To-night: "Mr Celebrity’’ & “Father Steps Out.” Next attraction: “Halfway to Shanghai” and “Klondike Fury.” “HALFWAY TO SHANGHAI.” With its locale aboard a railroad train running from Lashio, Burma Road terminus to Rangoon, the last moving action melodrama. ‘ Hauway to Shanghai” with Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey and Henry Stephenson in leading roles, commences at the Opera House on Saturday. The story is an unusual offering in that thfe entire story covers a time elapse of onlv 18 hours and is laid in three railroad coaches —a ' compartment car, baggage car and diner. Limited space, however, has not prevented Director Rawlins from keeping his thrilling plot moving at a speedy clip. Pivot in “Halfway to Shanghai” is a map showing the location of China’s secret munitions dump—-a document frantically sought by the Germans. “KLONDIKE FURY.” Danger packed drama, heart gripping romance, of a famous doctor deein<- a shocking murder scandal, who crashes in the primtive Alaskan wilderness to find the most startling adventure of his life. This life and death drama in the untamed north comes to life in “Klondike Fury” starring Edmund Lowe and Lucille Fairbanks, commencing at the Opera House on Saturday. Regent Theatre “Forty Thousand Horsemen.” Commencing Saturday: “Dive Bomber” in never-to-be-forgotten technicolour, starring Errol Flynn and Fred Mac Mur ray.

Every type of fighting and observation ’plane used by the United States Navy, including the newest superbombers and fastest pursuit and interceptor 'planes off the assembly lines, were used in Warner Bros.’ “Dive Bomber,” technicolour special, in which Errol Flynn and Fred; MacMurray are co-starred. The cast, in addition to Flynn and Mac Murray, includes Ralph Bellamy, Regis Toomev, Robert Armstrong, Allen Jenkins, Herbert Anderson, Craig Stev'ens, and a score of other young leading men in minor cadet arid pilot ioles. Only woman in the cast is the startlingly lovely Alexis Smith who appears briefly but memorably to stir up a little trouble between Flynn and MacMufray.

The pilots who flv Uncle Sam’s ’planes, the dive bombers, are the heroes of this epic of the skyways, and theirs is a tnrill-a-second drama. The tremendously high altitude, the terrific rate of speed at which they descend upon their targets makes dive-bombing the most hazardous type of flying. The main theme of the story is the work being done by the flight surgeons to lessen the physical hazards to the dive-bomber pilots. Flights of 10, 15, 20 naval bombing and torpedo squadrons will be seen. As there are 18 ’planes in a U.S. regulation squadron, nine in a division, and three in a section, the size and scope of these great mass flights can well be imagined. Real stars of the air epic are the ’planes themselves, and the big ships that serve them. The U.S. Navy gave full co-operation, millions upon millions of dollars worth of 'planes, ground equipment, building facilities and landing fields, not to mention the U.S.S. "Enterprise” itself, were turned over to Director Michael Curtiz for the action-packed film “Dive Bomber.”