AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1945, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Now Showing: “Navy Blues” starring Ann Sheridan and Jack Oakie. “NAVY BLUES.” Forsaking fight and frenzy for fun and frolic, “Navy Blues,” Warner Bros, eve-filling lilmusical now showing at the Opera House will uncork a barrel of mirth and music as Ann Sheridan, Jack Oakie, Martha Raye, Jack Haley and Navy Blues Sextet outdo themselves in a comedy of errors. The only battle in this battleship picture is a battle of wits and wisecracks and the guns constantly roar out salvoes of frivolity even in target practice. The story which skips around on and off the battleship Cleveland anchored in Hawaiian waters, finds the Jacks hopping about from the frying pan into the fire every time. Their bag of pranks is as full as old Santa’s toy sack at Christmas time. Haley accuses his ex-wife, Martha Raye, of being an international spy and has her thrown into jail. Oakie pawns the ship’s trophies and can’t get them back. Both clowns kidnap the fleet’s champion gun pointer, Herbert Anderson, who has been transferred to their ship, and bet their shipmates’ pay cheques on the outcome of the target title. When their chicanery doesn’t work they get chased all over the island and end up in a couple of hula skirts where they do a swing version of the hula with Ann Sheridan, a bevy of native dancers and the Navy Blues Sextet. The only thing “right” t'hat the Jacks do is to lead Ann Sheridan into the arms of gun pointer and hog caller Herbert Anderson to serve their own ends. Complications are so frequent they trip over each other and the picture is 108 minutes of laughs. Regent Theatre Now Showing: “Forever and a Day? The lives and loves and experiences of seven generations of an English family form the key-note of “Forever and a Day” commencing at the Regent Theatre to-day. This "unusual all-star feature presents the largest of film favourites yet to reach the screen in one picture. A tclal of 78 stars and top featured players, along with six famous directors and 21 writers, collaborated on this talent-studded film which was more than two years in the making. Covering the period from 1804 to the London blitz of 1940, the story has as its principal setting a sturdy old house built by a fireeating naval officer during the Napoleonic wars. The succeeding generations who in the structure, their romances and their adventures, comprise the story basis of the film as presented in a series of connected episodes laid against exciting moments in English history. Besides the 78 stars, nearly 200 players of note played the many individual roles that closely knit the flow of action into one united overwhelming drama. New —different —Buchanan’s new process pre-cooked “HOLLY” OATMEAL —cooked in two minutes; it's easier, quicker, yet full of goodness and vitamins—kiddies love it.