Opera House

Grey River Argus, 18 August 1944, Page 3

Opera House

Now Showing: “Alaska Highway” & “Nearly Eighteen.” One of the greatest engineering feats of the war is dramatised in Paramount’s “Alaska Highway,” now showing at the Opera House, with Richard Arlen and Jean Parker in starring roles. With the landing of U.S. troops on Attu Island, Army Engineers had an important link in America’s northern defences—the Alaska Highway, connecting Alaska and Canada. The film story is set against the building of this road, in the primitive wilderness across some of the world's most difficult terrain

Drama and music are combined in “Nearly Eighteen,” now showing at the Opera House. 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 quite 18, to carve out a career as a singer, in spite of the fact 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.