AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 17 February 1945, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

Ooera House Now showing: Paramount’s .technicolour musical “Dixie” starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, and M.ajorie Reynolds. “DIXIE” One of Paramount’s busiest, and brightest musicals “Dixie” in glorious technicolour is now showing at the Opera House with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour doing the starring honours, supported by Marjorie Reynolds, Billy de Wolfe, Lynne Overman, Raymond Walburn and Eddie Foy, Jr. 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 Now Showing: "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 to-day. | Monty Woolley plays the part of Sheridan Whiteside, famous lectur-i ei' 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 il is doubtful whether any guest the world over has created so much havoc as he manages Lu stir up during his enforced visit. He takes complete possession of tne house. H’s hosts are ordered to have their meals served in their room’. their children aie encouraged in all sorts of hare-brained schemes of wnich I heir parents disapprove, an J lhe v.holc 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 bereves ? he is about io give i'.p her job for marriage.