AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 20 October 1943, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Now showing: “Here Comes Happiness” and “The Story of the Vatican.” A warm comedy romance about a girl w.ho 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 I by Richard Amley. She leaves home and takes a small apartment, where | she tails in love witn Chet Madden, ! portrayed by Edward Norris. ■, Norris gives a realistic characterisation of an ordinary fellow', with simple ambitions and an extreme dislike for insincerity. When he learns 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 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, v 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., Peters, the murals of Michaelangelo j 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 Holiness 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 promiaent 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'. Arthur ‘ Treacher.