AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 27 September 1944, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House

Now Showing: “The Light That Failed,” starring Ronald Colman and Ida Lupino.

“THE LIGHT THAT FAILED”

Artist! Adventurer! Soldier- Lover! That was Dirk Heldar! Fascinating, unforgettable; this character that only Rudyard Kipling could create, now comes to life in the Paramount picturisation of Kipling’s famous novel, “The Light That Failed,” now showing at the Opera House, with Ronald Colman in the principal role.

See the screen unfold drama that swings from the blazing sands of the Sudan to the charm of London in Spring; from the holocaust of war to drama of love and sacrifice! There’s crashing action —as thousands of fuzzyj-wuzzies hurl themselves on the slender ranks of the British Square, in the most thrilling charge ever filmed! There’s tenderness as the picture unfolds the story of lifelong romance between a ma'n and a woman who are rivals for fame. There’s fascination— in the drama of a woman who takes her most terrible revenge against a man who scorned her love! And there are stars galore, headed by Ida Lupino, Muriel Angelus, Walter Huston and Dudley Digges.

Regent Theatre

Now Showing: “Jeannie,” starring Barbara Mullen and Michael Redgrave.

Starring Barbara Mullen and Michael Redgrave, “Jeannie” is now showing at the Regent Theatre. T’he entrancing story is about a Scots girl. who has spent most of her life doing housework in her father’s house in Scotland. When her father dies she inherits a small sum and goes off to Vienna for a holiday, for no other reason but that she has heard “The Blue Danube 'Waltz.” On the way she meets Stanley (Michael Redgrave), a' washing machine salesman, in whom she is particularly interested, because of all the things she hates it is washing sheets. In Vienna however she loses interest in Stanley and falls in love with a foreign Count, who, when he hears she has come into a fortune, concludes she has inherited vast wealth and determines to marry her. When the money has gone and Jeannie has to tell the Count that her I fortune” has disappeared he very I soon cold-shouldered her. She leaves Vienna in a hurry and returns to Scotland. She is no sooner back home than Stanley arrives and by means of a washing machine inveigles her into marrying him.