REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 12, 29 January 1937, Page 14

REGENT THEATRE

DODSWORTH TO-MORROW As » novel, Sinclair Lowis's "Dodsworth" was a best-seller. Adapted to the stage by Sidney Howard, with Walter Huston in the title role, it was a smash hit and ran almost two years on Broadway. Now, translated jxxto celluloid by the same writer, and "at the Regent to-morrow, with Huston again playing Sam Dodsworth and given a magnificeht production by tiamuel Goldwyn, "Dodsworth" has found its ideal form. Brilliantly acted -■ by a perfect cast, headed by Huston, ltuth Chatterton, Paui Lukas, Mary Astor and Dovjd Niven, this absorbing film tells the story of pam Dodsworth, a hard-working, successful middle-Wes-tern business man who retires to travel. Sam looks to Europe as a place to rost and da'bble in culture, but to his pretty, selfish and adored wife Fran, (Ruth Chatterton) its means one last fling at romance before facing middle age. "The General Died at Dawri." £ ' The Eegent Theatre's celebration "of Paramqunt's 25th. year of serVice to the publie concludes this evening. Their picture, "The General Died at Dawn" has proved a great draw with the publie of Hastings and surrounding difetricts, which is not eurprising, as the Paramount sign is known to signify only the best of screen fare. The growing spirit of resistance on the part of modern China against the predatory war-lords who have subjugatcd the country is the basis of the story which presents Gary Cooper agaixi in a soldier-of-fortune role. This time he is in the ranks of the people 's armyj Sent to Shanghai to purchase arms with which to resist. General Yang, war lord, he is lured aboard a train by beautiful blonde Madeleine Carroll, whose father is in Yang's employ. He escapes and gets • to Shanghai where he kills the father who is about to flee to Ameriea with the money.