AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 22 May 1947, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

—- — - —- ■— (H o ra House Finally To-night: “A Medal for Benny” and “Dixie Jamboree.” Commencing To-morrow: “It’s a Pleasure” (in technicalour), starring Sonja Henie. “IT’S A PLEASURE” The millions of fans of the dimpled little girl frcm Norway, who became the most famous skater in the world and one of Hollywood’s greatest stars, are seeing her in technicolour for the first time. Although Sonja Henie has made eight previous films, “It’s a Pleasure,” commencing at the Opera House to-morrow, is her initial screen venture in the colour medium. And it presents a new Henie. Colour dpes justice to her clear-skinned, brown-eyed, blondehaired beauty. Emphasis in “It’s a Pleasure” is on story. Chris Linden, exhibition skater with a small-time troupe, falls in love with Don Martin, a hottempered hockey player, played by Michael O'Shea. When Don is barred from professional hockey for slugging a referee, Chris gets him a .Job with Buzz Fletcher's ice show and Chris and Don are married But Buzz’s wife, Gale, lets her heart stray to Don. Her interference wrecks the promising career Chris is setting up for him. Don disappears, believing himself a hazard to his wife’s career. She, concluding he has run away with Gale, tries to forget him and goes swiftly up the ladder of success. Their eventual reunion climaxes a film that claims interest from the opening shot to the final fade-out.

Recent Tb Finally To-night: “Claudia and David”; Young, Dorothy McGuire. Commencing To-morrow: “The Rake’s Progress”; Starring Rex Harrison, Lilii Palmer, Godfrey Tearle. Tlie gay and adventurous career of an engaging young scoundrel is told with telling effect in “The Rake’s Progress”, starring Rex Harrison in the title role, and with Lilli Palmer, Jean Kent, and new Australian star Margaret Johnston, as the three lovely ladies with whom he becomes entangled. Quito unscrupulous, and with a charm of manner that lets him get away with it, the Rake covers quite a bit of world territory, including South America, Vienna, and England, in staging his many escapades. Opening at the end of World War I, it follows young Vivian Kenwav through boyhood to Oxford, where he is quickly Sent down, and then cut Into the world to make his career. Not fitted for anything, he quickly finds that his personality and charm of manner, more than make up for this deficiency, especially with women. Caring little who is hurt if lie pets his own way, Kenway passes from episode to episode as his whole nature and life deteriorate. Finally, he makes amends in one of the most tense and spectacular sustained scenes filmed m many a long day. It is a fitting c.li*o a picture that is truly disfinpuished. “The Rake’s Progress” will he one of the year’s best remembered films.