AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 17 December 1943, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Now showing: "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 now showing at the Opera House. Brilliantly directed it has a great acting cast, headed by James Stewart and Paulette Goddard and featuring the famous music of Horace Heidt. and His Musical Knights. “Pot O’ Gold” unwinds a stor-v packed with humour and excitement and interspersed with gay and light-hearten musical and dancing sequences. Its plot revolves around the fortunes oi an impecunious dance band who practice their - programme on the rooftop of a down-at-the-heels hoardinghouse. Paulette Goddard turns in one of her finest 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” now' showing at the Opera House. Featuring an allstar cast, including Walter Woolf King, H. B. Warner, Joan Woodbury, Parkyakarku s and Duncan Renaldo. this feature Jells a tale of love and espionage on the burning sands of Africa, where British and Nazi intrigue crash head-on in an effort to control the desert.

Regent Theatre

Now Showing: “The Bride Came C.0.D.” starring James Cagney & 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.”, now showing at the Regent Theatre. 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 fJv 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 clinches the deal. He is to be paid ten dollars a pound; C.O.D. for de--, livering 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 PalletteJ Jack Carson and George Tobias. I