AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 25 August 1949, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House? Finally Tonight: “The Lady in Ermine” and “Twilight on the Rio Grande.” Commencing Tomorrow: “Rachael and the Stranger. With the American border of 150 years ago as its setting R.K.O. Radio’s “Rachael and the Stranger,” commencing at the Opera House tomorrow, co-stars Loretta Young, William Holden and Robert Mitchum in an exciting stor v of romance and adventure. Holden portrays an Ohio frontiersman who, when his wife dies, decides to marry again for his son’s sake. Matrimonial resources at the nearest frontier settlement are limited, but he purchases a pretty young bondwoman (Miss Young) for 21 dollars, marries her, and brings her to his lonelv cabin. The boy, suspicious and resentful, spurns her efforts to be friendly, and even her new (husband largely ignores hfer. But this situation changes when a roving hunter (Mitchum) an old friend of Holden’s drops by for, his semi annual visit. His attentions awaken the bondwoman’s unsuspected talents, and he quickly becomes interested in her to the point of offering to buy her from her husband. ' The ensuing crisis, complicated by an Indian attack on the cabin, spectacularly resolves the situation.

Regent Theatre Commencing Tomcrow: “The Guinea Hig,” starring Richard Attenborough, Bernard Mills, Sheila Sim. “The Guinea Pig” is the story of a young elementary schoolboy who goes to a Pulbic School as part of an experiment on the part of the Governors of the school, in anticipation of the introduction of the Government’s new Education Bill. We see the impact of a boy fresh from a background quite alien to that of his fellow classmates, and we see the impact of the school, with its traditions and customs and its different values and 'standards, upon the formei elementary schoolboy. It is a slory vital in its application and is told in rich warm colorful, human terms against a background which is indigenously British. Its ingredients ir terms of entertainriient are ideally balanced. The theme is strong drama, all of it interwoven with humour and pathos which spring naturally from character to situation.