REGENT THEATRE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20012, 10 August 1939, Page 3

REGENT THEATRE

—LAST DAY* "NAUGHTY MARIETTA."— Proclaimed by many as the best film In which the popular singing team. Nelson Eddy and Jeannette MacDonald, have ever appeared. "Naughty Marietta" wilt conclude a most successful season at the Regent Theatre this evening. If will be remembered that it was in this film that Eddy first won himselif his tremendous'following, and the inclusion of such numbers as "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life," "Tramp. Tramp. Tramp," and "I'm Failing in Love with Someone," which have achieved lasting popularity, is enough lo recommend it to the public as a picture which can profitably be seen again. —To-morrow: Eleanor Powell ami Robert Voting in "Honolulu." —

Provided witli a wealth, of new music and a fine series of dancing sequences where the principal can display her remarka'ble talent, the musical film "Honolulu," in which Eleanor Powell is starr.ed. will op<en a season at the Regent Theatre tomorrow. The film will be preceded by a prologue on the stage of 18 Maori maids in songs and dances of Hawaii. The story tells how a famous film actor, played .by Robert Young, changes places with a plantation owner in Honolulu, whom he exactly resembles, only to find that he has to deal with a determined young woman (Eleanor Powell) in his double's fiancee, the girl having decided that she will be put off no longer and that their marriage will be performed at once. The difficulties which result from this complication provide most of the humour in the film, although George Burns and Grade Allen both give typically carefree performances, and a delightful touch is obtained from time to time by showing the fate of the plantation" owner, who has taken the actor's place in a series of personal appearances at New York theatres. A fine supporting programme will include an Our Gang comedy,- a Robert Benchlev Oddity and a travel film.