AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 15 May 1944, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Finally To-night: “Silver Skates” and “Follow the Band.” Next attraction (commences To-morrow, Tuesday): “The Underpub” and' “One Night in the Tropics." “THE UNDERPUP.” A new personality aimed for a debut similar to that of her predecessor, Deanna Durbin, in “Three Smart Girls,” will reach the screen when Gloria Jean appears in th?’title role of Universal’s “The Underpup'” commencing at the Opera House to-mor-row Tuesday, in which the eleven-year-old singing actress shares starring honours with Robert Cummings and Nan Grey in the new film. No less than 15 featured “names” are in the lineup of “Underpup” talent, including Beulah Bondi, Virginia Weidler, Margaret Lindsap, C. Aubrey Smith, Billy Gilbert, Ann Gillis, Raymond Walburn, Paul Cavanagh, Frank Jenks, Ernest Truex, Samuel 'S. Hinds, Dickie Moore, Shirley Mills, Doris Lloyd, a new musical comedy team, Billy Lenhart and Kenneth Brown, and others.

“ON'E IN THE TROPICS.’’ All the colourful atmosphere of the tropics and all the musicianship' of the noted composer Jerome Kern went into the making of Universal’s fastmoving romantic comedy, “One Night in the Tropics,” commencing at the Opera House to-morrow (Tuesday). Starring Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, and Robert Cummings as key figures in an impressive cast, the new film brings to the screen what is rated one of the most novel stories .of recent years. The picture deals 'with the romantic complications of two couples, arising when Jones sells his best friend’ (Cummings) a million-dollar “love insurance” policy under-writing an impending marriage.

Regent Theatre

-Finallv To-niqht: “Once Upon a Honeymoon.” Commencing Tuesday: “Hitler's Madman,” starring John Carradin, Patricia Morrison and Alan Curtis.

“Hitler’s Madman,” commencing at the Regent Theatre on Tuesday is the blood-stirring story of Lidice, the little Bohemian village the Nazis erased from the face of the earth in a world shocking war incident during the time Hitler’s armies were overrunning Europe While, as would oe expected shudders predominate, the story is firmly and beautifully bouna together with strong human qualities, notablv in the love theme portrayed against the background of bloodshed by Alan Curtis and Patricia Morrison. Curtis as Karel 'Vavra young Czech recently of the R.A.K, and Miss Morrison as Jarmlla Hanka his sweetheart are brought together as the couple who conspired in the assass’nation of Reinhard Heydrich “The Hangman”, vividly portrayed by John Carradine. It was this assassination that heralded the shocking Nazi reprisals under Heinrich Himmler, haled Gestapo head, portrayed by Howard Freeman. From “Hitler’s Madman” can be gained a partial rea--I’sation of :what has happened to the defenceless countries Hitler has swalj lowed up in his quest for world domI Ination.