AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 1 December 1943, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House NOW SHOWING: “Kisses for Breakfast” and “Sleepers West.” “KISSES FOR BREAKFAST” Warner Bros, have provided just about everything on the romantic comedy menu in the new picture. “Kisses for Breakfast,” starring Dennis Morgan, J'ane Wyatt and Shirley Ross, now showing at the Opera House. The story has him as a young man who has just married a lovely society girl, Shirley Ross, when he becomes the victim of a hold-up staged by a former girl friend who feels that her feelings have been hurt so much that 10,000 dollars is the only balm which will restore them. Dennis refuses to pay, so he is beaten up and his car driven over a cliff to give the impression that he has been killed and his body washed out to sea. Morgan becomes an amnesia victim, finds the address of his wife’s cousin, Jane Wyatt, in his pocket, adopts another name, which he happens to see on a real estate notice and makes his way to the South Caroline plantation owned by Jane. From that point the fun is fast and furious, and few situations projected on the screen have been fraught with more uproarious possibilities than the arrival of Dennis and Jane, now his wife, at the wedding of his “other wife,” Shirley Ross, to a former suitor. “SLEEPERS WEST” Once again Lloyd Nolan and Lynn Bari click. This time it’s in one of the season’s most exciting mysterycomedies. “Sleepers West”, now showing at he Opera House. Detective Shayne played by Lloyd Nolan has been commissioned to conduct Mary Beth Hughes to San Francisco, where she will testify in the Callahan murder trial. They leave on the “Comanche,” the crack mountain limited, but they are not alone. A gangster is on board to stop Mary Beth from testifying; Shayne’s reporter girl friend, Lynn Bari- is also a passenger with a story to get; and to top things off there’s a stranger’ with a valise full of greenbacks who falls in love with the witness. Regent Theatre Now Showing: “Waterloo Bridge,” 'starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. There have been many great and memorable romances brought to the screen, but none more tender, more boignant nor more vividly true to life than “Waterloo Bridge,” now showing at the Regent Theatre. This is the simple human story of. two young people desperately in love and caught in the merciless web of war when a lifetime often must be telescoped into twenty-four hours. Vivien Leigh’s portrayal of a petite ballet dancer who finds sudden romance and happiness in a whirlwind love affair with a young officer whom she meets during an air raid on historic Waterloo Bridge, is played with force, and yet with becoming restraint and quiet charm. Robert Taylor shares honours with Miss

Leuffi in his finest dramatic role He is first seen as a 48-year-old Colonel in London of 1940 and then as a young Captain of 1917 when he meets the only girl in his life. With its intensely dramatic background, London of the war years 1917 ana 1940 the film offers spectacular settings with the picturization of a London blackout, underground airraid shelters, and troops leaving for the front from Waterloo Station. Featured in the notable supporting cast are Lucille Wats.m, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaya and C. Aubrey Smith. MATINEE MEETING AT OMOTO. A splendid picnic outing is coming up in the lift on December 11 at the Omoto Racecourse, when a grand combined racing and trotting matinee race meeting is being conducted by the Advisory Board of the Greymouth Plunket Society, under the auspices of the Greymouth Jockey Club. Because of the difficulty today of transport, a special train is being run from Greymouth to Omoto and it is anticipated that large numbers will avail themselves of the opportunity of a picnic outing to the Omoto course, where all facilities will be provided for the comfort of patrons, including afternoon teas, ice cream, etc. There will be a diversified programme of events for hack .and open class performers in both .racing and trotting, with valuable trophies to the first and second horses.