The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 251, 18 December 1940, Page 4

The Theatres

REGENT Screening to-day and to-morrow, with a matinee to<-day, "Congo Maisie" Ann Sothern, John Carroll, Rita Johnson, Sheppard Strudwick, E. E. Clive. She has wise-cracked her way out of many a tough spot before—but now she's in a country where the boys no savvy the runaround. A ship draws away from a curving shore line and stands off for the ports of civilisation—and happiness—and love. A girl is left alone in the dismal port of Kurmala on the west coast of Africa. In the jungle behind the town there is always danger—the sullen promise of death—and the cruel boom of the native drums.

GRAND Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, "Torchy Runs For Mayor," Glenda Farrell, Barton Maclane, Tom Kennedy. Torchy Blane, the famous girl reporter, avlio wages an unceasing war in black and white against the underworld, is dismissed from her job by unfair pressure, and finds herself with the Mayor and the doctor who control the city to fight against. "20,000 Men a Year" Randolph Scott, Preston Foster, Margaret Lindsay, George Ernest. Big as the sky it fills , . . Dramatic as blind flight . . . and thrilling as a power dive! The season's most stirring air drama! . Thrill to the story of to-day's fledgling' fliers and their gallant girl friends.