AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 3 May 1949, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Now Showing: “The Sainted Sisters,” and “Perilous Waters.” “THE SAINTED SISTERS’ Co-starring . Veronica Lake, Joan Caulfield” and Barry Fitzgerald, Paramount’s hilarious comedy drama “The Sainted Sisters,” is now showing at the Opera House. In the story, the two girls are on the run from New York, after blackmailing a banker for 25.000 dollars. They take shelter from a storm in Fitzgerald's house. Fitzgerald, who carves tombstones in the town’s cemetery, tumbles to what they’re up to, and forces them to give away their money to the poor in a series of good deeds that they reluctantly perform. They are , regenerated against their will, and in the end go back to New York to give themselves up, so that they may be good girls ever after, “PERILOUS WATERS” The glamour and glitter of life on a luxurious yacht are replaced, by danger and melodrama in /‘Perilous Waters,” now showing at the Opera House Theatre with Don . Castle, Audrey and Peggy Kindsen co-star-red. It is the story of a Navy veteran whose inability to readjust to civilian life leads him to seek methods for making easy money. He becomes involved with murderous bookmaking racketeers, who hire him to kill a newspaper publisher engaged in exposing their criminal activities. Regent Theatre Mow Showing: “Hamlet.” Laurence Olivier’s film presentation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” is perhaps the biggest star-making picture ever produced in Britain. The cast includes players who have never before appeared on the screen. Credit for the discovery and use of these new stars rests primarily with Laurence Olivier, who has directed them in the complex and difficult roles in which they appear in “Hamlet.” Olivier, as well as directing and producing, appears as Hamlet, and amongst the leading players are Eileen Pierlie as the Queen, Basil Sydney as the King, Jean Simmons as Ophelia and Felix Aylmer as Polonius. Newcomers to British films are Normand Wooland as Horatio, Terence Morgan as Laertes, Anthony Quayle as Marcellus and Peter Cushing as Osric. Esmond Knight is Bernardo, Stanley Holloway the. First Grave-Digger, and Harcourt Williams as First Player. “Hamlet” is a landmark in the history of British film production, and proves conclusively that Britain still has the best actors in the world, especially when they have the advantage of speaking the finest dialogue ever written.