AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 24 April 1948, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House

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

Romance, adventure and an excite-ment-packed story of the after-feuds 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 Opera House. Van Johnson has a totally new type of characterisation in this story of a younc school teacher whose nest friend dies while fighting with mm in thp Union Army, and who goes to the latter’s Rebel family in Missouri and falls in Jove with ms friend’s sister. ■ The conflict ensures when Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell) father of the dead soldier discovers that Henry Carson (Johnson) has fought on i.he Union side. Despite the fact that Carson has helned him to save nis corns from a raging storm and has joined him in his fight against me mysterious night raiders who have been pillaging and burning the farmers’ barns, the hardened Rebel cannot tolerate the thought of his daugn • ter Lissy Anne, falling in love wnh the Yankee stranger. It is in the picture’s thrilling climatic scene in which Macßean attempts to kill Carson that the conflict is resolved and Carson’s true position is then mad-? C 1 The sequences of the masked raiders terrorising the countryside are as thrilling as anything that has been depicted on the screen- since tne memorable “Gone With The Wind.’

Regent Theatre Now Showing: “Jassy,'!' starring Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Dennis Price. Cinemagoers everywhere. win long remember the dual tnumpn of Maigaret Lockwood and Patricia Roc m that Gainsborough favourite. The Wicked Lady." Nov the two actresses are co-starred once more—again in a Gainsborough picture, bin this time a technicolour . production—m another romantic period drama. ‘•'Jassv." Bui 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 role 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 he v man stolen from her bv the Wicked Lady in the eailier Gainsborough success, and yet remained faithful to him, is the fickle Dilys in “Jassv” who. philanders with the affections of the man she loves. The film is Gainsborough’s first technicolour picture and also marks the debut of Margaret Lockwood in colour Anart from the two feminine stars, the cast includes Dermot Walsh, Dennis Price, Nora Swinburn. Basil Svdney, Esme Cannon and Linden Travers.