The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 2, 12 January 1942, Page 8

The Theatres

REGENT Screening last night to-night, "Charley's Big-Harted Aunt," Arthur Askey, Richadd Murdock, Phyllis Calvert, Graham Moffat, Moore Marriott. The famous BBC comedian, Arthur Askey—"Big-hearted Arthur, that's me," in the mirtli-making, streamlined 1940 version of Brandon Thomas's famous stage show. When Arthur Askey dons the skirts of Donna Lucia it's the naughtiest, craziest, laugh sensation since Grandpa was a boy! She's a gay 01-d thing from Birmingham—where the nuts and bolts come from —bringing you a new laugh-packed scream hit you've never seen before cin stage or screen. Askey's rip-roaring impersonation of a visiting Aunt by a scallywag Oxford undergraduate to prevent expulsion, has audiences absolutely rolling with laughter, while the flirtation in a punt by the

said Aunt with the unsuspecting Proctor, a midstream upset, the rescue of Askey by a bevy of girls, and risque complications when they try to tend and redress him, provides a climax to the riotous and hilarious comedy.

Screening Tuesday and Wednesday, "The Flame of New Orleans," Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Miischa Auer, Andy Devine, Melville Cooper, Eddie Quillan, Frank Jenks. Universal's daringly different comedy! When two of the greatest creative talents of all filmdom merge—the result is one of the finest and most unusual pictures" ever made! Rene Clair, internationally famous for liis daring, intimate direction, and Joe Pasternak, creator of the Deanna Durbin successes and "Destry Rides Again" bring you something new in gay New Orleans! The City of young hearts! Mecca of merriment! Land of love! Beautiful b e ll es _bold buccaneers— dashing lovers gay ladies —all in a Mardi Gras of romance and revelry in the gaiety capital of the world',