REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 3, 19 January 1937, Page 4

REGENT THEATRE

••SPENDTHKIPT" TO-MOKEOW Top-notch entertkinment, p.rovided .by some of the screen 's best talent in a story neatly combining romance and humour, marks the new offering of the Regent Theatre, Paramount's "Spendthrift," which opens to-morrow. Chief roles are carried out by Henry Eonda, Pat Paterson, and Mary Brian. The story introduces Fonda as a polo-plaver who has run through 23,000,000 dollars by his happy-go-lucky habit of always footing the bill. Broke, he sells a string of polo poniea to get to the Kentucky Dorby, hoping to make a Tecoup by winning the r ace with his f ast filly. At the Der.by he is spotted and landed by Miss Brian. The horse loses; Fonda 's bride shows herself as a f ortune hunter and deserts him after he has spent what is left of his fortune. The youth sets out to make a success by gettiug a job, and the means through which he accomplishes -the end and find romance close to home — with Miss Paterson — make the plot; The final screening takes place tonight of "The Man Who Conld Work Miraeles," starring Roland Young, Joan Gardiner and Ralph Richardson. This is a true guccessor to "Things to Come," was as many sfartling features as its predecessor. CELEBRATING PARAMOUNT'S 25th ANNIVERSARY Next week is the 25th anniversary of Paramount Pictnres. Founded by Mr Adolph Zukor, Paramount has ever been in the forefront of the production of motion jicture and, just as through the years, so to-day, a Paramount picture is "the best shqw in town. " Next week, January 23 to 29, the Regent §s proud to associate with theatres throughot the world in a celebration pf this memorable event, The Paramount picture to be shown is "The General Died at Dawn," featuring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll. •