AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 19 October 1943, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Now showing: “Here Comes Happiness” and “The Story of the Vatican.” “HERE COMES HAPPINESS.” A warm comedy romance about a girl who found that an unpretentious life meant a happy one, now showing at the Opera House in “Here Comes Happiness.” Coles gives a grand performance as Jessica Vance, who doesn’t care for her hand-picked fiance, played by Richard A’nley. She leaves home and takes a small apartment, where she tails in love wiin Chet Madden, portrayed by Edward Norns.

Norris gives a realistic characterisation of an ordinary fellow, with simple ambitions and an extreme dislike for insincerity. When he leains that Jessica secretly obtained £5OO from her father in order to get him a safer job, his present one being very dangerous/ he becomes bitterly jealous because he thinks she is two-timing him with a rich, elderly man. “THE STORY OF THE,' VATICAN.” The eyes of the world are turned to-day toward the Vatican to a degree unparalleled in modern history, the appearance of the March of Time film “The Story of the Vatican’’ now showing at the Opera House can hardly have been more timely. Here is an experience that comes once in a lifetime—the inside story of the smallest Sovereign State in the world where peace still exists in a world of war. Even if it were possible for you to visit. the Vatican, you would not see what this film shows, for The March of Time’s cameras have gone to many places within the Vatican where visitors are excluded. Before you are the great architectural and artistic treasures of the Vatican and the governmental and business .activities of the. Papal State. You see the splendours of the Basilica of St. Peter's, the murals of Michaelangelo in the Sistine Chapel and the masterpieces in the Vatican galleries, and' you visit the crypts beneath the Cathedral where the Popes are buried, the Vatican radio stations, the post office, and the tiny State’s stores and shops. Crowning these revelations The March of Time brings to the screen a vivid, enthralling series of intimate motion picture studies of his Floliness Pope Pius XII. Regent Theatre Now Showing: “Mad' About Music.” starring Deanna Durbin. The freshness and youthful appeal of Deanna Durbin’s earlier pictures has been a big factor in building her up to the prominent star she is today. One of the best'of these earlier films, “Mad About Music,” is now showing- at the Regent Theatre for a short return season. Deanna is presented in a characterization and in a plot that accentuates the freshness of her youth and the glorious beauty of her voice. “Mad About Music” is a comedy drama. Only a few tears—and these in a most effective manner intrude into the story of a little girl' with a make-believe father, whose dreams come true. Deanna sings as beautifully as ever, but with the exception of Gounod’s “Ave Maria” her selections are light and more in the nature of the popular ballad type of song. Included in the large cast are Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick an 1 , Arthur Treacher.