AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 16 December 1943, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House

Finally To-night: Grace Moore in “One Night of Love.” Next attraction. commencing to-morrow Friday: “Pot o’ Gold” and “A Yank in Libya." “POT O' GOLD.” Fun and laughter, music and dancing. romance and youth are delightfully blended in James Roosevelts first Hollywood offering, “Pot O' Gold.” a tuneful and melodious comedy with music, commencing at the Onera House to-morrow (Friday). Brilliantly directed it has a great acting cast, headed bv James Stewart and Paulette Goddard and featuring the famous music of Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights. “Pot O' Gold” unwinds a stor-y packed with humour and excitement and interspersed with gay and light-hearted musical and dancing sequences. Its plot revolves around the fortunes of an impecunious dance band who prar*> tice their programme on the rooftop of a down-at-the-heels hoardinghouse. Paulette Goddard turns in one of her finest performances as the' comely boarding-house lass, and Jimmy Stewart’s portrayal of an improvident music store proprietor who becomes mixed up in the doings of the boarding-house is top-notch “A YANK IN LIBYA.” Combining romance and laughter, cleverly woven into a fine story of thrilling adventures, “A Yank in Libya” commences at the Opera House to-morrow (Friday). Featuring an all-star cast, .including Walter Woolf King, H. B. Warner, Joan Woodbury, Parkyakarkus and Duncan, Renaldo, this feature Jtells a tale of love and espionage on the burning sands of Africa, where British and Nazi intrigug crash head-on in an effort to control the desert.

Regent Theatre

Finally To-night: "Appointment in Berlin.” Commencing Friday: “The Bride Came C.0.D.” starring James Cagney and Bette Davis.

Marking their first co-starring effort, James Cagney and Bette Davis are to be seen in the clever comedy “The Bride Came C.0.D.” which commences at the Regent Theatre on Friday. .... The'film’ tells the amusing tale of a spoiled young debutante with more money than sense, and .an

aviator with just the opposite combination. She is about to elope with a self-infatuated bandmaster who hires Cagney to fW them to Las Vegas, but Cagney desperately in need of funds in order to keep up payments on his plane, decides it will be" more profitable to deliver the bride back home to her father.. He gets her father on the phone and I

clinches the deal. ; He is to be paid ten dollars, a. pound C.O.D. for delivering the would-be bride . unmarried. From then on the story is really a comedy of errors, and being cleverly handled maintains .suspense right up to the last minute; The supporting cast is headed by . Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Jack Carson and George Tobias.