AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 30 January 1948, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House NOW SHOWING: "The Trouble with Women,” starring Ray Milland and Teresa Wright. "THE TROUBLE WITH WOMEN” The headaches Ray Milland had in the memorable " r «’ie Lost Week-end” are pale indeed beside the things that happen to him in Paramount’s new love and laugh film, "The Trouble with Women,” now showing at the Opera House, with Teresa Wright and Brian Donlevy in strong sunporting roles. In “The Lost Week-end” Milland’s enemy, alcohol, was at least curable. "The Trouble with Women” pits him against a foe that neither time nor science has ever been able to conquer—Woman. Milland is cast as a book-wormish professor of psychology He has written a book in which he states that some women must be dominated bv their mates, the more violently the better. Miss Wright, playing a smart reporter, misquotes Ray as advocating wife-beating and ho promptly sues her paper for libel. Editor Brian Donlevy then assigns Teresa the job of getting Milland to drop the suit, and that’s when Ray begins to get first-hand information about the trouble with women. First, and foremost, he learns they can throw punches, for he is soundly slapped bv Miss Wright and Rose Hobart, who plays Ray’s fiancee., More than that, he is attacked by an entire chorus of burlesque queens. But thy worm finally turns, does a little slugging of his own—-Donlevy is his victim—and successfully proves his theory about the dominant male by sweeping Teresa off her feet.

Regent Theatre

NOW SHOWING: "Miracle on 34th. Street,” starring Maureen O’Hara, John Payne and Edmund Gwenn. This film has the gaietv of a holiday party with plenty of romance, laughter and sentiment to make all who see it glow with the feeling tha f there still are a lot of wholesome people left in this troubled world o f ours. Maureen O’Hara, as Doris Walker, a department store executive. and John Payne, a young lawyer, who are even more charminr than they were in “Sentimental Journey,” provide the romance and Edmund Gwenn, one of the screen’s finest character actors, motivates this heart-warming love story with his unusual characterisation of Kris Kringle, a kindly old man who really believes he is Santa Claus. The unscrambling of the situations which Kris manages to create makes the story bright with laughter and poignant with pathos and sentiment. George Seaton, who both wrote the screen play from a story by Valentine Davies and directed the picture, has given it sparkling dialogue and heart-grinping action. “Miracle, on 34th Street” is one of those cinematic gems that come along only too seldom. It should be on your “must” list to see.