AMUSEMENTS At the Opera House

Grey River Argus, 28 February 1949, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS At the Opera House

Finally To-night: “Deep Valley.” Commencing to-morrow: “My Girl Tisa” and “Ghost Goes Wild.” “MY GIRL TISA”

The lusty, romantically -nostalgic days of 1900 form the backdrop for Warner Bros.’ “My Girl Tisa,” commencing at the Opera House to-mor-row.

Heading the impressive cast are Lilli Palmer, and a newcomer, Broadway stage star, Sam Wanamaker, making his film debut. Others importantly cast in the picture include Akim> Tarriiroff, Alan Hale, Hugo Haas. “My Girl Tisa” is a love story set against the time of Teddy Roosevelt, when no girl dressed in less than five petticoats and bustle, and no man had to strain to carry his chin high—it was held there by his celluloid collar. Basically it is the simple story of Tisa (Miss Palmer), who is fresh to these shores, and who works overtime in a sweatshop to save enough money to pay for her father’s passage from Europe. She meet Mark (Wanamaker), an energetic young man of the neighbourhood. Dramatically the story takes form when Tisa becomes involved with a crooked ship’s agent and (an arrangement by the enterprising Mark) is faced with deportation. The ending carries a punch when President Teddy Roosevelt Jjieets the girl at Ellis Island and solves hei* problem. “GHOST GOES WILD” The associate feature is the uproarious comedy hit, “The Ghost Goes Wild,” starring James Ellison and Anne Gwynne. Regent Shows Now Showing: “The Bishop’s Wife,” starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven. Romance and comedy are blended in Samuel Goldwyn’s unique vehicle for Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, “The Bishop’s Wife.” As a protestant Bishop in a midWestern • city, Niven has become so absorbed in the problem of raising funds for a new cathedral that he has lost touch with his old friends and has even lost the warm affections of his wife and child. Realising that the situation is getting beyond him, he prays foi' assistance, and is dumbfounded when a super-efficient young man, Dudley, immediately appears in his study and promises to help him re-establish himself. Although the clergyman resents the stranger’s interference, the rest of the household speedily falls under the guest’s spell. It isn’t long before the mysterious visitor has straightened out the financial troubles, won the Bishop’s old parishioners back to him, and reunited him with his wife again in a sparkling Christmas Eve climax.