CPERA HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 303, 24 December 1942, Page 3

CPERA HOUSE

pose i spooks, and Errol again displays his laugh-making antics and clever impersonations in RKO Radio’s “Mexican Spit tire Secs a Ghost,” sixth in this ser’es of hilarious comedies which screens at: the Opera House today. The associate feature, “Scattergood Rides High.” stars Guv Kibbee in the title role. This is the 4th production in the “S( aitergood Baines” series, and is wholesome entertainment. for the entire family and should be a “must, see” on everyone’s list. “Week-End in Havana” Tropical magic, <atchy Cuban rhythms, warm-blooded .* m ritas. dark eyed romeos, are neatly combined j n the story of the “sing-sational” new 20th Century-Fox musical which opens at the midnight matinee at the Opera House on Christmas Eve and continues at three sessions on Boxing Day. With Alice Faye. Carmen Miranda, John Payne and Cesar Romero in the starring role:., the film shows Havana with all its beauty in lhe naturalness of Technicolour. Alice portrays a Now York salesgirl who has carefully budgeted herself for several years in order to treat herself | (l a Havana vacation. When her ship is caiv’.ht on a reef, she refuses to sign a release to the shipping company until she has had- and enjoyed--her Havana vacation. Mark Gordon and Harry Warren have written five new tunes for “Week-End in Havana.” Thev are “When J Lnve I Love,” “The Man With The Eollypon Song.” "A Week-end in Havana,” “Tromcai Manic” and “The Nango,” “Romance and Rhumba.” “South Riding” Hailed by film critics as one of the most successful dramatic films of the year, “South Riding,” the lilmisation of Winifred Holtby’s best-selling novel of that title, screens at the Opera House on Christmas Day. The main characters are superbly played by a distinguished c:. i headed by four popular stars Ral| h Ric ard oi, Edna Best, Ann Todd and Edmund Gwenn. The well-known story revolves around the intrigue of shire politics which takes place as a result, of slum clearance in the county of South Riding, and events move quickly to a gripping climax.