AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 23 April 1948, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House

Now Showing: "The Romance of Rosy Ridge," • starring Van Johnson and Janet Leigh, “ROMANCE OF ROSY RIDGE"

Romance, adventure and an excite-ment-packed story of the after-feuas between Yankee and Rebel factions after the American Civil War make for big entertainment in “The Romance of Rosy Ridge, starring Van Johnson and featuring Janet Leigh (new discovery), is now showing at the Cpera House. Van Johnson has a totally new type of characterisation in this story of a young school teacher whose oest friend dies while lighting with mm in thp Union Army, and who goes to the latter’s Rebel family in Mis-i souri and falls in love with ms friend’s sister.

The conflict ensures when Gill Mac ■ Bean (Thomas Mitchell) father of the dead soldier discovers that HenryCarson (Johnson) has fought on the Union side. Despite the fact that Carson has helped him to save nis corps from a raging storm and has joined him in his fight against vie mysterious night raiders who have been pillaging and burning the farmers’ barns, the hardened Rebel cannot tolerate the thought of his tlaugnter Lissy Anne, falling in love with the Yankee stranger. It is in the picture’s thrilling climatic scene Hi, which Macßean attempts to kill Carson that the conflict is resolved and Carson’s true position is then matte clear.. The sequences of the masked raiaers terrorising the countryside are as thrilling as anything that has been depicted on the screen since t>ie memorable “Gone \Vith The Winn.

Regent Theatre Now Showing: “Jassy,? starring Margaret Lockwood, 'Patricia Roc, Dennis Price. Cinemagoers everywhere will long remember the dual triumph of Margaret Lockwood and Patricia Roc in that Gainsborough favourite, “The Wicked Lady.” Now the two actresses are co-starred once more —again in a Gainsborough picture, but this time a technicolour production—in another romantic period drama, “Jassy.” Eut since "The Wicked Lady” both stars have had a change of heart. Margaret Lockwood, whom you will remember as the unscrupulous and faithless. lady of the title irole in the earlier film, retains the title role in “Jassy,” but Jassy is an unselfish gipsy girl who makes many sacrifices for the man she loves. On the other hand, Patricia Roc, who had her man stolen from her by the Wicked Lady in the earlier Gainsborough success, and yet remained faithful to him, is the fickle Dilys in “Jassy” who philanders with the affections of the man she loves. The film is Gainsborough’s first technicoldur picture and also marks the

debut V>f Margaret Lock wood in colour. Anart from the two feminine stars, the cast includes Dermot Walsh, Dennis Price, Nora Swinburn. Basil Svdney, Esme Cannon and Linden Travers.