REGENT THEATRE
"SPENDTHRIFT" TO-DAY. j Top-notch enterteinment, provided j .by some of the screen 's best talent in i a story neatly combining romance and i humour, marks the new offering of the Regent Theatre, Paramount's "Spendthrift," which opens to-morrow. Chief roles are carried out by Henry Fonda, Pat Paterson, and Mary Brian. The story introduces Fonda as a polo-player 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 ponies to get to the Kentucky Derby, hoping to make a recoup by winning the race with his fast filly. At the Der.by he is spotted and landed by Miss Brian. The horse loses; Fonda 's bride shows herself as a fortune hunter and deserts him after he has spcnt what is left of his fortune. The youth sets out to make a suecess by getting a job, and the means through which he accomplishes the end and find romanee close to home — with Miss Paterson — make the plot.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 4, 20 January 1937, Page 4
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171REGENT THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 4, 20 January 1937, Page 4
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