OPERA HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 116, 20 May 1942, Page 3

OPERA HOUSE

Maureen O’Hara anci James Ellison are co-starred in a new romantic musical picture "They Met in Argentina " screening at the Opera House to-dav. the action of which takes place in South America. The sparkling and vivacious Maureen plays the role of an Argentinian heiress, and Jimmy that of an American oil man who is interested in racehourses—until he meets Maureen. With music and ivrics by the famous team ot Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, the new RKO Radio hit, "They Met in Argentina,” is reliably reported as a gay., glamorous and tuneful screen confection. The associate feature. "Scattergood Baines" is the first of a series of motion pictures based on Clarence Budington Kelland’s famous character of fiction. In the title role of the “most famous storekeeper in the world’ 'is Guv Kihbee, veteran actor. “Blood and Sand.’’ "Blood and Sand,” which in the “silent days" brought, fame to the late Rudolph Valentino, has been remade with tremendous success as a modern talkie, in technieolour, with Tyrone Power in the Valentino role. The thrilling tale of a bul I lighter’s romances, which screens at the Opera House on Friday, is more impressive than ever. Linda Darnell and Rita Hayworth fill the leading feminine roles with great success.