AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 21 May 1947, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

■■■H— —— —■» Opera House Now Showing: “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 do

.'ordova in leading roles, is now showing at the Opera House. 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 1 ’ now showing at the Opera House, 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 Now Showing: “Claudia and David”, with Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire, Mary Astor. 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 outstanding supporting cast including Mary Astor, John Sutton, Gail Patrick, 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. How they unwittingly become involved in a quadrangle that leads to a fabulous series of sequences—and with what, hilarious results makes for gay and refreshing entertainment. Included in a splendid supporting programme is the March of Time, “Atomic Power.”