AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 15 October 1948, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

At the Opera House Now Showing: “Where There’s Life,” starring Bob Hope. “WHERE THERE'S LIFE” The old adage—“uneasy lies the head that wears a crown'’—has never been so hilariously demonstrated in Paramount’s latest Bop Hope comedy “Where There’s Life.” In this battle royal of a film, now showing at the Opera House with Signe Hasso and William Bendix also starred, Hope is cast as a gag-nappy disk jockey who almost becomes King of a mythical country. And before 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 olf with a bang—an assassin’s bullet fells the reigning monarch of Baiovia. 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. The “clown” prince is, of course, Hope, blissfully going aoout his business of seling dog food —not toothpaste—over the air. Only his impending marriage to the manhunting sister of a tough Irish cop mars his happiness. On the eve of this “disaster,” a delegation from Barovia, led by the most beautiful general in any army, Signe HassOj arrives to tell Hope or his inheritance and to escort him back to the fatherland. 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 Now Showing: “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 “Unconquerea," 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 Kings 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.