AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 26 August 1946, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Finally To-night: “Action in the North Atlantic/’ starring Humphrey, Bogart. Commencing to-morrow: “See My Lawyer” (starring Olsen and Johnson) and “Good-Night Sweetheart (starring Robert Livingston). “SEE MY LAWYER" Those two crazy comedy cut-ups, Olsen and Johnson, head a strong cast in Universal’s picturization of the smash Broadway play that had audiences rolling in the aisles, “See My Lawyer.” Olsen and Johnson seen as themselves, are the owners of the most unique night club in the world, where everything can happen, and certainly does. These two- irrepressible madmen lead the laugh-feast, kicking over the conventional humour traces and going their own crazy way with no thought in their heads but to give you the most fun you’ve ever had. Yvette, the charming international songstress, who is last becoming a great radio favourite, sings several songs, including “I’l Be Seeing You.” Other specialty acts include Carmen Amaya and her company of gipsy dancers. A strong supporting cast is headed by Noah Beery Jnr. and Grace McDonald. “GOOD-NIGHT SWEETHEART” Alive with romance, bursting fun and sparkling with surprises, “Goodnight Sweetheart,” is the laugh dubbling riot of the year. Starring Robert Livingston as the top-notch reporter who leaves the city to take over his half-interest in a country newspaper, and Ruth Terry, as the niece of the opposition paper’s candidate for Mayor, the story is a fast moving laugh-a-minute riot. Things happen when Livingston plans a scandal campaign against the uncle of the gill he loves, and is climaxed when he is arrested whilst masquerading as a woman. ,

Regent Theatre Finally To-night: “Son of Lassie.” Commencing Tuesday: “The Gentle Sex." “The Gentle Sex,” directed by Leslie Howard, and commencing at the Regent Theatre on Tuesday is the first: British feature film of women at war, and has been made as a salute to women—the indomitable womanhood of. the nation —and in gratitude to those thousands whose humanity and heroism were a part of every day life in’the Second World War. The story with its A.T.S. background is unfolded as the unspoken observations of an onlooker—a man—who sceptically watches the absorption of women into the war. At a laige don railway terminus he watches the teeming mass of people with piedo inance of women, and he wonders where they are all going, and in search of what. He picks out seven girls, ordinary young women about to depart on a journey. They are all feeling strange arid all a little doubtful as to whether they will be happy living a communal life in a large camp What do these seven types make of their new life and unusual mode of living? “The Gentle Sex’’ portrays their lives vividly and it is a tribute to them as representing women as a whole.