AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 23 June 1943, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House

Now Showing: “The Old Homestead” and “Riding the Wind.”

Packed with laughter, music, action and suspense, the Hill-Billy drama “The Old Homestead” stars the Kings of Comedy, the Weaver Bros and Elviry and featuring Dick Pureese. Moris Wrixon and Jid Prouty, now showing at the House.

The plight of a group of ranchers whose herds are faced with extinction when a ruthless land owner builds a dam across a river and shuts off all water from the grazing land, forms the basis of Tim Holt’s new outdoor drama, “Riding the Wind, now showing at the Opera House, which also features singing cowboy Ray Whitley, Lee "Lasses” White, pretty Mary Douglas and Kate Harrington. Young Holt; is cast as a cattleman who leads the fight against the unscrupulous schemer when the latter refuses to release the life-giving water unless the cowmen pay an excessive price for the water rights. Regent Theatre Now Showing: “The Long Voyage Home,” starring John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell and lan Hunter. Against the highly dramatic and emotionally stirring story of men who dare the perils of sea and sky. Walter Wagner’s new screen pre-, sentation, “The Long Voyage Home” will be screened at the Regent Theatre on Tuesday under the auspices of United Artists, and based on the famous sea plays of Eugene O’Neill, America’s :greatest playwright. The hand-picked cast of this thrilling and suspensful film is headed by such distinguished performers as John Wayne. Thomas Mitchell & lan Hunter and includes Barry Fitzgerald. Wilfred Lawson, J'ohn Qualen, Carmen Morales, Arthur Shields, J. M. Kerrigan and Mildred Natwick.

Briefly. «the story of “The Long Voyage Home” is a lusty, drama-fill-ed sea tale of stout-hearted men who, without uniforms, protection or the possibility of receiving medals, carry out one of the most dangerous tasks in modern war; that of supplying ever explosives to their countfy, while they challenge the roaring gales of the high seas, and whose heroism and bravery often remains unsung but is nevertheless startling and sensational. Most of the thrilling action unwinds aboard the s.s. “Glencairn,” a British tramp steamer, en route to England after a long voyage with calls in the Caribbean and at American ports. As the individual Tife dramas of the motley personalities are developed, the action of the story swings into high gear and one of the biggest: scenes involves lan Hunter, a Britisher of obviously superior breeding and intelligence, who apparently is trying to drown his memories in drink. But personal stories are forgotten when .a fierce bombing raid strikes terror aboardship, by virtue of the fact that the boat is loaded with T.N.T.