REGENT THEATRE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20122, 16 December 1939, Page 3

REGENT THEATRE

GEORGE FORMBY IN “TROUBLE BREWING.” A huge vat of beer is the trap in which George Formby captures a gang of counterfeiters whose exploits have been baffling the police in “Trouble Brewing” at the Regent Theatre. This time George is cast as a compositor whose burning ambition is to become a crime investigator. Aided and abetted by Googie Withers and Gus M’Naughlon, he succeeds in running to earth a gang of counterfeiters whose exploits have been baffling fhe police. Before George achieves his triumph, however, he and his fellow amateur criminologists g i through'a series of funny misadventures in pursuit of their quarry. These take them in turn to a racecourse; an all-in wrestling match, in v.-hich George surprisingly proves tin; victor against a bearded champion of the art, a party given by a famous opera singer, in which George is called upon to rescue an incriminating piece of paper from a most embarrassing hiding place; and finally they find themselves in a brewery, the head juarters of the gang of forgers, in which a never-tr -be-fcigotten battle ensues. In a climax fraught with thrills and amusement George manages to trap the counterfeiters in a huge vat full of beer, the men becoming gloriously drunk before they are finally carried off by the police. In between all their "troubles” George finds time and place to sing three catchy conical songs. In these days an item in the supporting programme titled “Warning’’ undoubtedly will arouse considerable interest. It has been produced with the approval o; the British Government, and is a Striking argument in favour of the need for prep a redness in these troublous times.