AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 20 September 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House “PENNIES FROM HEAVEN.” There’s happiness ahead at the Opera House, where Bing Crosby’s latest picture, “Pennies from Heaven,” commences at a matinee today at 2.15 p.m. A cast that includes Madge Evans, Edith Fellows, ( Donald Meek and Louis Armstrong, works along with Bing in the ffim. Crosby’s latest picture was “Rhythm on the Range,” in which he scored a hit. Madge Evans was last seen in “Piccadilly Jim,” and little Edith Fellows, thirteen-year-old starlet, will be remembered for her performances in “She Married Her Boss.” Armstrong’s celebrated swing band appears with him in “Pennies from Heaven.” The story concerns a vagabond troubadour who falls in with a little girl and her improvident grandfather and proceeds to take them under his somewhat patched-up wing. The child is about to be sent to an orphanage and the elderly man to an Old People’s Home, when the troubadour hits upon a plan to make enough money for all three of them to live on. The county welfare worker who is responsible for the child happens to be just the type of girl the troubadour can love, and he finds himself doing it thoroughly. However, they are on opposite sides of the fence, hence complications. Things manage to work out for the best along toward the end of the picture, after merriment, romance and music take turns with the entertainment! Crosby is said to sing some of the best songs of his career in “Pennies From Heaven.” The numbers—“ Let’s Call a Heart a Heart,” “PennieC From Heaven,” “So Do I,” “One, Two, Button Your Shoe,” and “Skeleton in the Closet.”

“BORN TO DANCE.” Eleanor Powell (world’s Queen o’ Taps), returns to the Opera House Thursday night only in M.G.M.’s dazzling musical, “Born to Dance,” supported by James Stewart. Una Merkel, Sid Silvers and Buddy Ebsen. “THEODORA GOES WILD.” Meet the gayest lady who ever went to town! Irene Dunne is at her glorious best as the male-shy Theodora who lets her hair down for a Broadway binge that sets a new high in tall laughs! You’ll see her in Columbia’s riotous romantic comedy, “Theodora Goes Wild,” which opens at the Opera House on Friday, with Melvyn Douglas as Irene’s swain. These are the things Theodora did She wrote a sensational novel then tried to live up to it! She made love to the Governor .... and shocked the nation! She upset two happy 7 homes .... and landed in the headlines! Men ran for their wives when Theodora was on the loose! She’s the hilarious heroine of the year’s fastest, funniest film! Richard Boleslawski directed.

Regent Theatre PADEREWSKI. Director Lothar Mendes persuaded Ignace _ Paderewski to appeal- in “Moonlight Sonata,” so at last the public have an opportunity to see and head the maestro of the piano on the screen at the Regent Theatre. The picture on Saturday evening held a full, house spellbound for 18 minutes while Paderewski played two items. It wag music such as the West Coast people have only read about. Nothing but this great piano player’s efforts reproduced in a way as near , perfect as possible could do this. Another interesting figure in the picture is the veteran actress Marie Tempest who at the age of 72 years, makes her debut in a talkie. In the role of an hospitable Baroness, she proves that really first-rate bred-in-the-brain acting can be transferred from theatre to screen without any major operations. It is to be hoped that her success will reconcile hei- to the cinema for her personality is the kind that is an asset to any film.

“ARIZONA MAHONEY” Joe Cook, whose understudy is said to be the entire combined Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus, makes his first full-length feature appearance in the title role of

Paramount’s “Arizona Mahoney,” a| mad-cap comedy of life on the plains which begins on Wednesday at the Regent. Robert Cummings, his assistant in a stranded carnival show, beautiful June Martel, a recent film find, and Larry Crabbe, a bandit chief support him as a love triangle which Cook solves mainly with a full-grown African elephant, upon whom he rushes to the rescue, and a talking goose.

“LET’S MAKE A MILLION” Two vi Ilians of the screen, Porter Hall ana Purnell Pratt, join in the film comedy of bonus troubles “Let's Make a Million,” a Paramount picture featuring Edward Everett Horton, which comes on Wednesday to the Regent. Charlotte Wynters and the “pixilated sisters,” Margaret Seddon and Margaret McWade, head the support. “THE PLAINSMAN” The screen’s favourite soldier-of-fortune, Gary Cdoper comes in his favoured role again in Paramount’s “The Plainsman.” the Cecil B. De Mille saga wJiich begins on Saturday at the Regent Theatre. He. portrays an actual soldier-of-fortune, “Wild Bill” Hickok, peace officer on the plains in the seventies. It is Cooper’s first historic role. LONGEST “SHORT” COMING. Paramount’s “Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor,” first tworeel animated cartoon filmed and first Popeye m full colour and threedimensions will be a part of the bill beginning on Friday at the Regent. Theatre. BASKETBALL BALL. The arrangements are almost completed for the West Coast Basketball Association's first Annual Ball to be held in Schaef’s Hall to-morrow night. The decorations are being carried out by the Railway Ball Committee. A big attraction will be the plentiful supply of novelties. A sumptuous ■ super, and the Marina Band will be in attendance. Expense has not been spared to make this Ball one of the outstanding of the year. So everyone who attends will be in for a great night’s fun. z