The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 215, 20 September 1940, Page 4

The Theatres

REGENT Matinee and evening screenings to-day "A Christmas Carol" and "The Invisible Man Returns/' Commencing with two sessions to-mor-row, "Honeymoon in Bali" Made-, leine Carroll, Allan Jones, Fred Mac Murray, Akim Tamiroff. A sparkling romantic comedy that carries you from swanky Fifth Avenue to an exotic South Sea paradise. -It breezes with an incessant bombardment of delicious fun, and it is a bright relief from a world stifling with morbidity. Rarely has a picture attained the streamlined gaiety and spontaneous humour exploited with continuous and mounting effect, which is enhanced by sparkling dialogue and gay characterisations, and a delightful tale of two men and a girl. "Sea Scouts" Walt Disney Cartoon. GRAND Final screening to-night "Parola Fixer" and "The Adventures of Jane . Arden." Commencing with matinee and evening screenings to-morrow. "Torchy Plays With Dynamite,'* Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins, Tom Kennedy, Sheila Bromley. With a brand new Torchy Blane on view (Jane now plays the part of the clever and daring young girl reporter), and a different boy friend for her (Allen Jenkins this time is Detective Lieutenant Steve McBride), the newest of the Warner Bros comedy series "Torchy Plays With Dynamite," is described as faster->moving than any which preceded it. "My Little Chickadep" Mae West, W. C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Anne Nagel. Mae's back in a lusty farce of the frontier days in the bad old West! Every scene a sensation—every line a laugh! When Mae,"the "Curvaceous captivates "Bibulous Bill" of the bulbous beak!