OPERA HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 3

OPERA HOUSE

Those who like action in their picitures and many dramatic moments of ; thrilling intensity could find no better film than “Gunga Din.” which screens i finally at the Opera House to-day. “Svvanee River.” The beloved and famous melodies that are America’s only real tolk music, and the thrilling ’.story of the • man who wrote them, screens at the Opera House to-morrow in a mag- < nilicent Technicolour motion picture, 1 20th Century-Fox’s “Swanee River,” the story of Stephen C. Foster, the great American troubadour. One leaves the theatre with ears ringing with the melodies that seem to ex- | press the very heart of America—- " The Old Folks at Home” (Swanee |River), “Old Black Joe,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” "De Camptow n Races,” "Jeanie with the Light Brown I Hair,” “Ring, Ring de Banjo,” ami “Oh! Susanna!” One leaves, too, with I a sensation of having been thoroughly stirred and thrilled by the romantic drama of Foster’s story-like life.