AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 29 November 1944, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House NOW SHOWING: “Hat Check Honey” and’“Mystery of th e 13th Guest" Sparkling comedy situations blending with gay music furnished by three of the nation’s most popular name bands, and a notable cast of glamorous Hollywood players, comprise the entertaining elements of the newest comedy; musical, “Hat Check Honey”, now showing at the Opera House. The story deals amusingly with a veteran carnival showman and his son, played by Leon Errol and Richard Davis, respectively. Errol’s paternal affection causes him to assume a' hard-boiled attitude to force his son out of their corny act. Through the machinations of Grace McDonald, the hat-check girl, Davis finds himself “discovered” as a singer to replace the band’s vocalist. There’s a world of entertainment, action-packed mystery, and suspense, lightened by clever toneup of comedy in “Mystery of the 13th Guest”, starring Dick Furcell and Helen Parrish, now showing at the Opera House. Here is an eerie thriller with ail the requisites for a neatly contrived mystery picture—murders, disappearin'" bodies, old deserted rambling houses, and hooded killers. The story is of murder and horror in an old deserted house. The killings start at the stroke of midnight when a young

girl visits the . house to open her dead grandfather’s will.

Regent Theatre NOW SHOWING: “The Sky’s The Limit.” Here’s a thrill, hew and gay, and believe me, it is a dance-filled holi- ! day, introducing Fred Astaire and I Joan ..Leslie, with Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan, Elizabeth Patterson, Marjorie Gateson, and Freddie Slack and his Orchestra. The romance is between a flying Tiger pilot, disguised as an idle civilian, and a g:rl photographer for'a picture magazine. Many complications arise as the plot unfolds. Even the boss is in love with Joan, but doesn’t know how to propose, and, as the plot builds up to a gay climax, the two principals dance their way around the encertainment spots with three notable routines and four hit songs by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen to enliven the offering. It is a genuinely lighthearted action film, and the dancing is of the very best. There is no war in this picture —just music and romance. _