AMUSEMENTS Opera House

Grey River Argus, 19 August 1949, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS Opera House

Now Showing: "Road House,” starring Ida Lupino and Cornel Wilde. A powerful dramatic story set against the exciting brackground of a road house brings together four of screen’s top stars —Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm and Richard Wildmark in Twentieth Century Fox’s ‘‘Road House,” the new screen hit, packed with hard hitting drama and dynamic action now showing, at the Opera House Theatre. In brief, "Road House” is the story of a night club singer, whose looks and magnetism involve Wilde and Widmark in a struggle for her love. Out of this antagonism grows the dissolution of the men’s friendship, and the transformation of Widmark from an easy-going play-boy into 1 a vindictive enemy. A climax in which the men are pitted against each other as they track through the northern wasteland will most assuredly have you glued to your seats with excitement. Further asset of this dynamic drama is a unique setting with the drama, loves and conflicts played out against the tavern and bowling alley background of the road house. Regent Theatre Now Showing: “A Date With Judy.” Among the stars of the Metro-Go! d-wyn-Maver delightful musical, “A Date With Judy” are Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Wallace Beery, Carmen Miranda. Robert Stack Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra. Here is a song-studded tale of a lucky family and their happy-go-lucky adventures. Beery, in one of his rare excursions into musicals, plays the benign head of a brood which includes wife. Selena Royle, daughter Jane Powell and brat son Jerry Hunter. Jane falls in love with handsome Robert Stack; and rival Elizabeth Taylor tries to upset this applecart. To add to her misery, Jaiw discovers that her father is keeping mysterious trysts with Senorita Miranda, unaware that their their meetings are for the sole purpose of learning the rhumba. But the complications are cheerfully unravelled before the family goes, completely to pieces—and it’s all done to a cleverly interlarded and delightful musical score. •