AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 13 May 1944, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House

Now Showing: “Silver Skates” and “Follow the Band.”

The motion picture screen has never presented a more dazzling or entertaining ice spectacle than “Silver Skates,” the Monogram extravaganza' now showing at the Opera House. Here is a picture which literally “has everything.” Its skating star is Belita, Englishborn girl who exhibits a grace and skill such as the screen has never shown before. Featured with her are Kenny Baker, noted radio singer, and the ‘raven-haired film beauty, Patricia Morison. Crowded with headline entertainers, Universal’s gala "Follow the Band” now r showing the Opera House. . Rhythm, romance and revelry are said to be happily combined in the new picture which boasts 14 headline players and featured acts in its talent array. Topping the performer list are Leo Carrillo, Leon Errol, Mary ‘Beth Hughes, -Eddie Quillan and Anne Rooney. The plot deals humorously with the plight of an amateur trombone virtuoso from the country who, through a fluke, plunges headlong into fame and fortune on Broadway. Regent Theatre Now Showing: “Once Upon a Honey- * moon,” starring Ginger Rodgers and Gary Grant. Bringing together for the first time two top stars of the screen, Ginger Rodgers and Cary Grant, R.K.O. Radio offers .a stirring glimpse of love against a world at war in “Once Upon a Honeymoon, now showing at the Regent Theatre. As convincing as it is exciting the t picture takes its two principals, _ a.. American dancer and an American Broadcasting reporter through the pages of contemporary Continental history from the invasion of Austria and Poland to the capture of Holland and Paris. The marriage of the dancer, played by Ginger Rodgers, furnishes most of the plot difficulties, for not until after the ceremony does she discover that her titled husband is Hitler’s principal agent in “softening up” the little countries preparatory to invading them. Thereafter her efforts to get away from him, aided and abetted by the radio reporter, Cary Grant, give rise to the many exciting happenings in Warsaw, Amsterdam and Paris, that lend authenticity to the story. Included in the cast are Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker and Albert Basserman.