AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 11 September 1948, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

At the Opera House Now Showing: “Living in a Big Way!’, starring Gene Kelly and Maria McDonald. Highlighting a mirthful tale of a guy who has married in haste and has a hat-ful of complications trying to reconvert at leisure, “Living in a Big Way” starring Gene Kelly (dancing star of “Anchors Aweigh,” is now showing at the Opera House. Lovely Maria McDonald is his romantic partner as well as his partner in a scintillating dance routine, but she is given plenty of competition by sixty-two-year-old Jean Adair, who not only plays a standout part as a fun-loving match-maker but also claims Kelly for a highly diverting waltz routine. Two other outstanding Kelly dances are the “Fido and Me’ number, and the “Pied Piper” dance, a tvpically arresting and novel Kefiy rendition. The plot, in brief, centres on Kelly returning from the war to claim Marie McDonald, who has married him in an impetuous “before sailing” moment. She has now changed her mind and wants a divorce. It is up to Kelly to show his fickle bride what she will miss by giving him up, and he does so in a series of sparkling comedy situations which enlist the aid of Jean Adair, playing Marie’s grandmother, Charles Winninger .playing a grumpy financier, Spring Byington, as a society matron, and Phyllis Thaxter as a homeless war wife.

Regent Shows One of the most magnificent and thrilling; stage performances ever incorporated in a motion picture will been seen in Universal-Internation-al’s *‘A Double Life,” coming Friday to the Regent Theatre. The film stars Ronald Colman in the story of a great Broadway actor who becomes so engrossed with his stage roles that he carries their characteristics into his personal life. This obsession results in many fantastic adventures and eventually drives him to suicide. Ass a motiatmg influence for his .complex behaviour, there are scene ■" of Colman on the stage playing the title role of “Othello” —first on the opening night, later after the play has been running six months and then as it goes into its second year Co-starring in this great attraction are Signe Hasse, as Colman’s actress

wife. Edmond. O’Brien, .as the play’s press agent, Ray Collins, Phillip Loeb, and many others giving excellent portrayals.