The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 247, 9 December 1940, Page 4

The Theatres

■ REGENT -■•tShowing again to-day and to-mor-* row, "Juarez/' Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne,John Garfield Claude Rains, Donald Chrisp, Gale Sondergaard. Here is blazing : entertainment written in the lifcblootl of a green nation—here is the strange conflict between a man with out mercy an'Ci a woman without fear—here' is ponip, romance, struggle, action, 1 glory, combined .to make drama the screen has never approached before. '« . It tells of Benito Pablo Juarez.' Born in poverty of illiterate Zapotecan Indiau parents, Juarez was soon to follo-wr his magnificent destiny and become the saviour of Mexico, liberate the down-trodden people he knew so well, and give them the God-Grant-ed right of freedom to live in selfrespect and happiness. GRAND ■ Screening to-day and to-mor-row, "Charlie McCarthy, Detective," Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Ber? gen, Mortimer Sherd, Robert Cummings, Constance Moore. Tlie year's merriest, maddesj becomes the season's happiest h{Wwith Charlie McCarthy as a. limb of the law; Mortimer; Snerd, a fugitive from Scotland (lumber) Yard; and Edgar Bergen as their mouthpiece. "Bullet Code" George O'Brien. Daring, driving drama of the rugged, roaring.80's. He's a one»-man border patrol —-his six-gun code spells actions