AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 9 April 1948, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House Now Showing: “The Beast with Five Fingers,” and Joe Louis v. Joe Walcott Fight. “BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS” Achieving a high note in suspense and stirring romance Warner Bros.’ swift-moving melodrama “The Beast with Five Fingers” with Aobert Alda, Andrea King and Peter Lorre in leading roles is now showing at the Opera House. The story presents Andrea King inthe role of Julie Holden, lovely, blonde nurse-companion to Francis Angram (Victor Francen), a retired, semi-invalid concert pianist living in these surroundings, who still manages to play lhe piano brilliantly with his left hand in spite Of a paralytic stroke which has left half his body useless. When Ingram dies suddenly and -violently, the subsequent reading of the will reveals that Julie has been bequeathed his entire fortune. On the evening that the will is being read, the household is thrown into confusion by the playing of the piano in the precise style used by Ingram in life. Rushing to the music room everyone is horrified to find the dead body of Duprex (David Hoffman), a lawyer engaged io contest the will. From that moment on, the house is subject to a terrifying seige of horror, involving the "Ghost” of Ingram, which is bent on destroying anyone who contests his last will. Regent Theatre Now Showing: “Sister. Kenny,” starring Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox and Dean Jagger. Made with the full co-operation of Sister Kenny, and featuring Dean Jagger as the fiance she never married, the story covers her eventful life from the day she elected to work in the outback as a Bush Nurse until Hie moment of victory, when her Institute in Minneapolis was opened. Of prominence in the picture is the little known romance between this great woman and an Australian Army Olficer (Dean Jagger). Their romance commenced when Elizabeth Kenny was but a young girl, and lasted through all their lives. Many times the wedding date was fixed, but each time it was'postponed, owing to Nurse Kenny’s interest in the cause to which she had dedicated her life. A professional ruling barred nurses from marrying unless they left their profession. Sister Kenny valued her love dearly, her whole life being a struggle between love and duty; but duty always won. As Sister Kenny, Miss Russell contributes one of the screen’s greatest portrayals.