The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 183, 21 November 1941, Page 8

The Theatres

REGENT

DOUBLE FEATURE ON FRIDAY

Here's the picture that had to be made—and has to be seen! It's Paramount's "Love Thy Neighbour" co-starring those feuding favourites of American radio, Jack Benny and Fred Allen, with Mary Martin, Verree Teasdale, the Merry Macs, Virginia Dale and Rochester. Here is the run-in both Jack and Fred have tried to run out on! And when they meet—head-on!—the fun flies! Jack (Great Glover) Benny and Fred (Punchline Powerhouse) Allen clash in a bout about romance! You'll never see these radio favourites in finer fun-making form! See Paramount's "Love Thy Neighbour."

The same company that produced the sensational horror-type films, "The Invisible Man" and "The Invisible Man Returns," now turns its trick effects to comedy in" what is advanced as one of the most startling and hilarious features on record. Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charlie Ruggles and Oscar Homolka share starring honours in the trick picture. Story presents Miss Bruce as a discouraged dress model who offers herself as subject for human invisibility experiments by an eccentric scientist (Barrymore). The experiments are eminently successful and lead to many hilarious situations while the Invisible Woman not only wins a romantic young playboy, portrayed by Howard, but also rounds up a fugitive gangster mob hiding out in

Mexico

FUN FOR SATURDAY

He's playing the new army game with his oild movie flame! Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour are gallivanting about in a picture that's going to bring you a barrack-full of laughs Paramount's "Caught in the Draft." When conscript Bob sets his on the colonel's daughter, he has to" prove to her that lie's not afraid— just nervous! It's a blitzkrieg of fun! Hollywood's biggest casting problem always arises when a new family picture is in the making. Compatability becomes as important a characteristic of the players chosen as it is in the real-life family. The search immediately begins for players Avho can be imbued with a spirit of warmth and feeling and who can reflect that feeling on the screen. When Herman Mankiewicz conceived the idea for the original story c,f "Keeping Company," opening at the Regent Theater on Wednesday, ha started something. Producer Samuel Miarx and Director S. Sylvan Simon conferred for weeks and made dozens of tests before settling upon their "family."

GRAND

TWO THRILLERS

A thrilling drama, replete with action, romance, "Wolf of New Yoirk," starring Edmund Lowe, deals with the efforts of a criminal lawyer to save a client of whose innocence he is convinced. Circumstantial evidence points to the young man's guilt, and he is tri-ed and sentenced to death in the electric chair. The one witness who could give testimony to save him is murdered on the eve of .his appearance in court. With the execution of his young friend Mason, the lawyer becomes

embittered and plans to leave the legal profession altogether. He is persuaded to remain, however, when lie is appointed to the office of District Attorney. In this office he is

able to establish posthumously the innocence of Mason and strike home a strong indictment against conviction on circumstantial evidence alone. Pulsating with suspense and thrills "Ellery Queen Master Detective." stars Ralph Bellamy- This film features a "psychological" murder which involves clues including a jewel-handled jagger. a mysterious raven and a vanishing body. Many ingenious complications pYesent themselves in the solving of the mystery, but Ellery Queen eventually unravels this baffling ease.