AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 14 October 1948, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

At the Opera House Finally to-night: “Meet The Navy,” and “Susie Steps Out.’’ Commencing to-morrow; “Where’s There's Lire,” starring Bob Hope. “WHERE THERE'S LIFE” The old adage—“uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" —has never oeen so hilariously demonstrated in Paramount's latest Bop Hope comeuy, "Where There’s Life.” In this battle royal of a film commencing me opera House to-morrow with Signe Hasso and William Bendix aiso starred, Hope is cast as a gag-happy disk jockey who almost becomes King of a mythical country. And beiore his loyal subjects discover they have the wrong man, what happens to Hope shouldn’t even happen to Crosby! “Where There’s Lite" starts right off with a bang—an assassin’s bullet fells the reigning monarch of Barovia. The shot is heard 'round the world, for the king’s death-bed confession names a New York platter spinner as his son and heir to the throne, rhe “clown” prince is, of course, Hope, onssiully going aoout his business or seling dog food —not toothpaste oyei the air. Only his impending riage to the manhunting sister ot a tough Irish cop mars his happinoss. On the eve of this “disaster, a delegation from Barovia, led by the most beautiful general in any army, Signe Hasso, arrives to tell Hope of Ins innemance and to escort him back to me latherland. From that moment, Hope faces a fate worse than marriage and before he can achieve his objective—capturing the general s love —he becomes embroiled with spies, death plots, secret panels, corpses falling out of closets and other situations said to be as ribtickling as they are hair-raising.

Regent Shows Finally to-day: “The Private Life' Of A Scoundrel,” with George Sanders, Ann Dvorak. Commencing to-.morrow: "Unconquered, " starring Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva. It has been a long three years since Cecil B .De Mille enriched the film entertainment world with one of his screen masterpieces. During that time he was busy planning and preparing for the giant technicolour epic, Paramount’s “Unconquereu, which co-stars Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard. Much of the action centres around Fort Pitt, a lonely outpost giving precarious shelter to 500 colonists. George Washington, then a Colonel in the King’s Colonial forces, selected the site. When Chief Pontiac’s savage hordes swept down on it, determined to drive the white settlers out, there were many who thought its defence was a profitless waste of lives. “Unconquered” also tells the exciting romance of a Virginia militiaman and a lovely English bond slave who fall in love and share some of the most hairraising adventures ever filmed,