AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 19 May 1947, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House

Finally To-night: “Three Strangers”. Commencing To-morrow: “A Medal for Benny” and “Dixie Jamboree”. Adapted for the screen by Frank Butler, who put the heart-warming touches to "Going My Way”, and written by the renouned John Steinbeck. Paramount’s really great motion picture, "A Medal for Benny”, with Dorothy Labour and Arturo de Cordova in leading roles, commences at the Opera House to-morrow. The picture, a warm human story, tells how glory comes to- a small California town when one of its paisano soldier sons is awarded a Congressional Medal of Honour posthumously. Packed with melody, thrills, mirth and romance. “Dixie Jamboree”, commencing at the Opera House to-mor-row is a colourful musical-melo of life on the Mississippi showboat, with Miss Langford as the star singing entertainer in the show. Guy Kibbee is the old-timber who operates the floating fiesta, with Lyle Talbot playing the role of a gangster who takes passage on the boat as a refugee from, the minions of the law. Others in the cast are Eddie Quillan, Charles Butterworth, Fifi D’Orsay, Frank Jenks and Louise Beavers

Regent Theatre

Finally To-day: “Dragonwyck,” with. Gene Tierney, Vincent Price. Commencing to-morrow: “Claudia and David,” with Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire, Mary Ashton.

Starring Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young in the title roles “Claudia and David-” is the filmisation of Rose Franken’s celebrated stories. The picture features an out-' standing supporting cast including Mary Astor, John Sutton. Gafi 'nt-''

rick, Rose Hobart , Harry Davenport, Florence Bates, Jerome Cowan, Else Janssen, Frank Twedell and Anthony Sydes. Called a story of perpetual emotion, the film unfolds, the hilarious and exciting martial adventures of uninhibited, unpredictable Claudia, who couldn’t let love, just happen, and of David, her bewildered though patient and loving husband. I-low they unwittingly become involved in a quadrangle that leads to a fabulous series of sequences—and with what ' h ! l p1 " : -'mg results -makes for gay and refreshing entertainment. Included in a sr did supporting programme is the March cf Time, “Atomic. Power.”