The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 141, 13 August 1941, Page 8

The Theatres

REGENT

The homespun charm, the sweet, down-to-earth sentiment contained in L. M. Montgomery's well-loved book, "Anne ol' Windy Poplars." Anne Shirley gives a gay and brilliant performance as "Anne Shirlej'" a role slie created six years ago in "Anne of Green Gables," an earlier Montgomery story which zoomed the young actress to stardom and inspired her to adopt the heroine's name. In the current "Anne" story Miss Shirley is a young school teacher. Her appointment as vice-prin-cipal starts a bitter feud with the powerful Pringle family, Avhich rules the small community, trying to oust Anne so that one of the Pr.ingles, also a tc-acher, may have the job.

Commencing Thursday. Darrji F. Zanuck's production of "Brighnm Young," written byi Louis Bromfiekl, is said to depict faithfully the thrilling events of the famous Mormon trek. Some of the film's higlipoints arc: The crossing of the Mississippi in dead "winter with men, women and children fleeing before guns across the cracking ice. The massacre at Nauvoo, Avhen masked raiders sacked the city. The arrival at G"reat Salt Lake? and the start of the final battle for existence with the barren land. The invasion of crickets and the miracle of the seagulls.