The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 96, 26 August 1942, Page 5

The Theatres

REGENT

"New Wine," the romantic drama, which co-stars lovely Ilona Massey and handsome Alan Curtis will commence screening at the Regent Theatre to-night. "New Wine" tells a sparking story of Franz Schubert's early Viennese days—when that once-glorious city rang with song and music and romance. It pictures the daj\s whew the 3 r oung composer, who was to become the truest genius of his age, was forced to flee to Austria and there meets Anna, a beautiful girl who is in charge of a ranch belonging to a gidtly countess. Anna falls in love with Franz and realises that his work has the stamp of immortality. How they return to Vienna and seek out the great Beethoven for help and how their stirring romance comes to an unexpected climax provides "New Wine" with all the ingredients of a thrilling motion picture.

SCREENING TO-MORROW Hospital zoning confusion, dramatic moments in Blair Hospital, and a new Hollywood glamour "discovery" mark "The Doctor and the Debutante,'" newest picture in the Ivildarc series. Lew Ay res, as Dr. Kildare, and Lionel Balrymore, as Dr. Gillespie, grapple with red tape to save a young interne's position after he saves a life in the wrong ambulance zone. Ay res and Barrymore make a dramatic plea before the hosiHtal board, there is a gripping operation scene, a dramatic sequence in which anguished parents watch as Ayres restores to life a smothered baby, and other highlights enlivened by tlie comical disputes of Lionel Barrymore and Alma Kruger. The picture introduces a new screen beauty in Ann Ayars, young concert singer, who, after playing a nurse for a day as her first role on the screen was promoted to the feminine lead by the director, Major W. S. Van Dyke ll'. As "Cookie," debutante injured in an accident, and whose life is saved when Ayres and Barrymore operate, she fully justified Van Dyke's faith.