AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 15 February 1945, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

Ooera House Finally To-night: “The Mummy's Ghost,” and “Minesweeper.” Next Attraction (commences Friday): “Dixie,” in glorious technicolour. “DIXIE” One of Paramount’s busiest, brightest musicals is headed this way with .Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamo ur doing the starring honours, supported by Marjorie Reynolds, Billy de Wolfe, Lynne Overman, Raymond Walburn and Eddie Foy, Jr. The picture, in glorious technicolour, is "Dixie,” and commences at the Opera House to-morrow (Friday). This is the first time Hollywood has undertaken to reproduce the kind of entertainment that thrilled America in the 1850’s—those great minstrel shows of song and comedy. The story is about Daniel Decatur Emmett, the man who wrote “Dixie” and saw it become first the rallying song of the Confederacy and then the nation’s most popular martial number, with Bing Crosby as Emmett, ,Composer and originator of the oldtime minstrel shows. The film contains six old favourite songs: “Dixie,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “Last Rose of Summer,” “Old Dan Tucker,” “Turkey in the Straw” and “Buffalo Gals.” and six news ones: “Sunday, Monday or Always,” “If You Please,” “She’s From Missouri,” “A Horse That Knows the Way Back Home,” “Kind’a Peculiar Brown,” and “Laughing Tony.” Regent Theatre Finally To-night: “The Yellow Canary.” Commencing Friday: “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” Starring Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan and Monty Woolley, “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” commences at the Regent Theatre on Friday. Monty Woolley plays the part of Sheridan Whiteside, famous lecturer and vitriolic wit. He arrives in a small town to lecture, and the town’s leading social light (Billie Burke), invites him to her home to dinner. Entering her home he slips and breaks his hip. The dinner guest stays a month and n is doubtful whether any guest the world over has created so much havoc as he manages to stir up during his enforced visit. He takes complete possession of the house. H : s hosts are ordered to have their meals served in tl«pir room, their children a?e encouraged in all sorts of hare-brained schemes o’ which lheir patents disapprove, and the v. hole household is in a complete uproar. Bette Davis plays his secretary and Ann Sheridan the stage actress he imports to break up Bette’s romance when he beheves ■■he is about to give up her job for marriage.