The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 149, 19 April 1940, Page 4

The Theatres

REGENT Two screenings to-day, "Song of the Plains," Nelson Eddy, Virginia : Bruce, Lionel Barrymore. To-mor-row, matinee and night, "Jamaica Inn" Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Leslie Banks, Emlyn Williams, Robert Newton. Laughton's greatest creation in. Daphne Dtt Maurier's sensational novel, of which a million copies have been sold! M stirring drama with colourful characters . . . their lives and loves . . . their hopes and dreams . . . a story with the lusty force of an Atlanticgale . . depicting the wild days when the law reached no further than a musket shot . . . wreckers led by a mad genius in Cornwall^ 1 lawless days . . . the most elaborate, expensive and important picture yet made in Britain. GRAND Matinee and night, "Missing Evidence" Preston Foster, and Irene Hervey. Also, "Timber Stampede," George O'Brien. Commencing tomorrow, matinee and night screening of "Brother Rat" Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Johnnie Jane Bryan, Ronald Reagan, Jane Wymait. The year's biggest laugh sensation . . . out of a volley of mirth roars the charge of the Laugh Parade! Laughs? It's loaded with them! Howls? You'll be bombarded—when, these fun-loving "Brother Rats" attack your funnybone. "Secret Ser-« vice in the Air" Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Ila Rhodes. This film is the first of a new series to be issued by Warner Brothers, featuring highlights from the colourful career o£ W. H. Moran, formerly chief of the ' American Secret Service.