AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 17 August 1944, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House

Finally To-night: ‘‘lrene’’. Next attraction. commencing to-morrow (Friday): “Alaska Highway" and “Nearly Eiahteen.”

“ALASKA HIGHWAY.”

One of the greatest engineering feats of the war is dramatised in Paramount’s “Alaska Highway,” commencing at the Opera House to-mor-row (Friday), with Richard Arlen and Jean Parker In starring roles. With the landing of American troops on Attu Island, Army Engineers had an important link in America s northern defences—the Alaska Highway, connecting. Alaska and Canada. film story is set against the bund ng of this road, in the primitive wilderness across some of the world s most difficult terrain

“NEARLY EIGHTEEN”

Drama and music are combined in "Nearly Eighteen", commencing at the Opera House to-morrow (Friday.). The charming Gale Storm is the girl in the case, and the other points m the story’s love triangle are based on Bill Henry and Rick Vallin. The story concerns the efforts of Miss Storm, not unite 18, to carve out a career as a singer, in spite of the tact that for* a time she is barred from wanted night club assignments on account of her age. How she eventually finds both a career and love, makes a lively highly interesting story.

Regent Theatre Finally To-night: 'friendly Enemies” Commencing Friday: “Keeper of the Flame,” starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn are united in a dramatic and romantically exciting ../ MGM.’s “Keener .of the Flame, commencing at the Regent Theatre ° n Adap!edfrom I. A. R. Wylie’s bestsellinv novel’, the film gives Tracy the characterization of a war correspondent returned to America after beino- ousted from several European countries for telling the truth, and assigned to write the life story of a famous American leader recent'lv k’llert in an accident. In his investigations Tracy meets the young and beautiful widow of the dead man and falls in love with her. K.ather ne Hepburn plays the latter role and dramatic complications ensue when he comes to suspect her of complicity in her husband’s death, and is torn between love and conscience. A sensational discovery and crashing dramatic climax solve the problem.