The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 78, 15 July 1942, Page 4

The Theatres

REGENT

HERE'S COMEDY! GOOD OLD a COMEDY ! YOU'LL LOVE IT ! I

Everybody talks about the "Straw- I berry Blonde"—but what else could it I be? Her story's packed to the I with romance, songs and laughter, I and you'll talk like all the others I when you've seen it. . . Just imag- ■ ine what happens to the Naughty I Nineties (men walked slowly and I women were all bustle) when these I two get together! Imagine that good I old two-fisted Cagney in those good I old two-step days—when mother I was a girl and a naughty girl if I smoked a cigarette! . . . Oti'r Jim-» ■ mie's still a scrapper—but this time "'■ it's all in fun and set to music! ■ Come and see for yourself—and hear / I the eld favourite songs including - H "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey" . H "Love Me and the World is Mine," „ H "When You Were Sweet Sixteen," . H "Mr Dooley," "While Strolling Thru* 'H the Park." H . .H SENSATIONAL DRAMA NOW AT H REGENT THEATRE H "Washington Melodrama" now .H playing at the Regent Theatre, no^_^ only brings to the screen a new in detective stories, but, alojig with veteran Frank Morgan, presents sev- : eral young players on the. threshold of stardom with their most notable role to date. Chief among these is Ann Rutherford, Mickey sweetheart in the "Hardy pictures, who is glamorous and matic in the romantic lead. mgton Melodrama," deals with a mil- - lionaire philanthropist, involved in sinister plot and murder mystery . . in the midst of important national affairs of to-day. His daughter abandons society to turn amateur detective with the aid of her fiance, a. newspaperman, to solve the mystery•> and her father. Miss Rutherford in glamorous fashions proves herself a vivid dramatic actress, and Morgan plays a straight dramatic role grippingly. Kent Taylor plays the male lead a? the newspaperman. Dan Dailey,- Jr., and "Virginia Grey, last teamed in "The Captain, is ai Lady," play a couple of night .clul> dancers, and aside from a clever in a spectacular night club episode,^ have gripping acting parts they handle cleverly. The .spectaciflar highlight is an "Aqua-dance," in which bathing beauties led by Gwynne perform amalzing in a glass tank in the nigVit