AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 21 September 1937, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House “PENNIES FROM HEAVEN.” Closing to-night, after a successful run, is Columbia’s new Bing Crosby comedy-with-music, “Pennies From Heaven,” at the Opera House. Madge Evans, little Edith Fellows, Donald Meek, John Gallaudet, and Louis Armstrong and his swing band are featured.

“MAD HOLIDAY.” A movie within a movie—the murder of an international jeweller on a coastwise steamship between Los Angeles and San Francisco —a second murder in a Chinese theatre in San Francisco’s Chinatown —these are the ramifications of one of the most unusual mystery dramas. “Mad Holiday,” which comes to the Opera House on Wednesday with Edmund Lowe and Elissa Landi in the principal roles. Edmund Lowe, appearing as a Hollywood star, sick at being typed in mystery parts, walks off and takes a fateful steamer voyage. Miss Landi, playing the author of the picture out of which he has “walked,” also embarks on the steamer, determined to bring the actor back. When a hoaxed murder turns out a real one of complications begin. Zasu Pitts and Ted Healy, an uproarious comedy team if there ever was one, are a master stroke of casting. It must have been a comparatively simple assignments for both stars for they had practically but to play “themselves.” Lowe, during his career, has played a detective in innumerable pictures, the most recent of which was his part of Philo Vance in “The Garden Murder Case.”

“THEODORA GOES WILD.” “Theodora Goes Wild,” a rollicking Columbia ' production, introducing Irene Dunne to fans in her first comedy assignment, will be shown for the first time at the Opera House on Friday. Supported by an exceptionally strong cast, Miss Dunne is permitted to run fancy free through a sprightly tale of a small town girl who wins her big-city man in a bigcity way. Melvyn Douglas appears opposite in the leading role, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall, Rosalind Keith, Spring Byington, ’Elisabeth Risdon and Margaret McWade round out the cast. Miss Dunne’s beautiful voice is heard in several songs, among which is the popular favourite, “Be Still My Heart.”

Regent Theatre PADEREWSKI FILM. The final screening of “Moonlight Sonata,” will be at the Regent Theatre this afternoon at 2.15 and again to-night at 8. This feature is well , worth seeing as it brings to one the world famous pianist, Paderewski, playing the best of music. He is strongly supported by Dame Marie Tempest, the famous stage star. BROADWAY COMIC. Joe Cook, one of America’s greatest clowns, comes to the Regent tomorrow in Paramount’s “Arizona Mahoney,” supported by Robert Cummings, June Martel, Larry Crabbe, a three-ton-elephant, a talking goose and a 22-inch cannon. Edward Everett Horton, wry-faced comedian, has the aid of leading character actors in the Paramount comedy, “Let’s Make a Million,” which opens at the Regent to-morrow. As villains, Horton plays opposite Porter Hall and Purnell Pratt. Aids in comedy include the famous “pixilated sisters,” Margaret Seddon and Margaret McWade, J. M. Kerrigan, Irving Bacon and a score of others.

FRIDAY’S OUTSTANDING PROGRAMME.

“The two greatest sailors in history” will appear on the screen of the Regent, beginning on Friday, in Max Fleischer’s first two-reel animated cartoon, “Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor,” a Paramount picture. The cartoon is the first of Popeye’s to be made in full colour. Jimmy Ellison, of “Hopalong Cassidy” fame, is astride a horse again in “The Plainsman,” DeMille epic of empire building which begins on Friday at the Regent. Ellison plays “Buffalo Bill” Cody, famous western scout. The cast is headed by Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, and includes 2,000 Cheyenne Indians and 250 cavalrymen.