AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 24 March 1947, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Finally To-night: “Smoky” (in Technicolour). Commencing To-morrow: “Pink String and Sealing Wax”, starring Google Withers and Mervyn Johns. The old adage, “Never trust a wo-

man”, has a new significance in “Pink String and Sealing Wax”, commencing at the Opera Hous’e to-morrow, with Googie Withers, Mervyn Johns and Sally Ann Harris in leading roles, when David, played by Gordon Jackson, becomes the unknowing accomplice of a woman of Brighto , n’s underworld during the late nineteenth century. David, a young man of twenty, is disappointed in love, and to drown his sorrows goes to the notorious “Dolphin” inn, chief meeting place of Brighton’s underworld. There he meets and becomes infatuated with Pearl, the innkeeper’s flashy wife, strikingly portrayed by Googie Withers, innocently abetting her in the murder of her husband. In this fastmoving drama set against a background of gaslights and antimacassars, passion leads to murder, and the corpse is enshrouded in blackmail. Regent Theatre

Finally To-day: “To Each His Own,” with Olivia De Havilland, John Lund. Commencing To-morrow: “29 Acacia Avenue,” with Gordon Harker, Jimmy Hanley, Calra Lehmann.

“29 Acacia Avenue,” tells of the tranquil lives of the English family Robinson, and how problems plunge it into hilarious chaos. Mr and Mrs Robifison —thess/ parts are perfectly taken by Gordon Harker and Betty Balfour —go on a pleasure cruise and reluctantly leave their two nearly adult children. The son neglects his regular girl-friend in favour of an alluring charmer, who later is revealed as a married woman of promiscuous character; the daughter, tired of just "being engaged,” agrees to her fiance’s making the holiday a period of trial marriage. At a critical moment Mr and Mrs Robinson unexpectedly return; it transpires they didn’t want a cruise after all, and just took a couple of weeks on the South Coast. From this point the fun and fury develops in even greater measure. You will not only enjoy its delightful, daring downright “true-to-life” realism, you’ll also thrill to the natural and charming manner in which the players enact this story of ord' inary people living at the address of the title.