AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 20 June 1944, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera Rouse

Now Showing: “So’s Your Uncle,” and “Fighting Frontier.” “SO’S YOUR UNCLE” - The fast-paced musical movie “So’s Your Uncle” with Billie Burke, Donald Woods and Elyse Knox in top roles. Frank Jenks ably handing the comedy scenes, and excellent music offered by the Delta Rhythm Boys, Mary O’Brien. Jan Garber and his Orchestra, Tailor-Maids. and J’ack Teagarden and his Orchestra, now showing at the Opera House. , An amusing twist is provided in the story by Donald ' Woods, who portrays Steve Curtis, a handsome young stage actor having to impersonate a “middle-aged” victim of an automobile accident. Lovely Elyse Knox, playing Patricia Williams, bumps into Woods as he rushes from the theatre in make-up. She takes him home to her wealthy aunt, played by vivacious Billie Burke, who, thinking Woods is her own age, promptly annexes him. With the grudging aid of a fellow actor, Joe Elliott, portrayed ably by Frank Jenks, poor Woods spends hectic days in quick changes playing both himself and hi s “Uncle,” alternately wooing Patricia and her aunt “FIGHTING FRONTIER.” The efforts of a courageous young mine owner to track down the men responsible for a series of payroll hold-ups which are ruining the community provides' the story for “Fighting Frontier,” Tim Holt’s latest RKO Radio western thriller, now showing at the Opera House. When Holt is accidentally recognised as a member of the band which has staged a recent robbery, his friends turn against him and assist in his capture, not knowing that he is operating as a special investigator. How he finally exposes a high official as the head of the robbery ring, rounds up all the crooks and haves his own neck from the vigilantes, leads to the gripping climax of this exciting outdoor film. Sensational riding, hand to hand battles, a lynching party and .a spectacular gaol break feature the thrilling action. Ann Summers has ' the feminine lead opposite Holt, and the main comedy role is played by Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike), who also presents two songs of the west.

Regent Theatre

Now Showing: “The Navy Comes Through,” starring Pat O’Brien and George Murphy.

A service romance laid against the grim background of the Battle of the Atlantic and a gripping feud between two Navy men form the dual theme of “The Navy Comes Through,”, now showing at the Regent Theatre.

Pat O’Brien & George Murphy are cc-starred and Jane Wyatt is the heroine of the offering with most of the a-lion taking place aboard an American freighter bound for Ireland and on a captive Nazi supply ship. O’Brien is in command of the navy gun crew aboard the freighter and is disgusted when he finds that Murphy a disgraced former Naval Officer who has enlisted as a seaman is a membei’ of the crew. Believing O’Brien to be responsible for his original difficulties Murphy . resents the situation especially since O’Brien's sister, a navy nurse is in love with him despite her brother’s advice. After'the freighter goes to sea the veiled hostility between the two men breaks into open warfare. Thrilling battles against U-boats and the capture of a German _ supply vessel provide dramatic highlights in the setting for the personal relationships of the three principals until a stirring climax bring matters to a satisfactory conclusion.