REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 54, 19 March 1937, Page 15

REGENT THEATRE

ENGLISH SPY STORY. Clive Brook'i latest A.T.P. production, "Lonely Boad," at the Regent to-morrow> presents this world-popular star as Hollywood never visioned him. For here, at last, is the real Broqk in the role he was born to play — an &%■> commander of the Brjtish Submarine Beryice, working hand-in-glove with Scotland Yard to capture a darjng gang of gun-runners operating on the English coat. When the pieture opens we find him, a rejected suitqr, drinking heavily to drown his sorrows at his town elub, with Pnly a blood-red rose, a last gift frocn. the girl he loves, as a companion. Later, sfcill decidedly the worse lor Uqnor, he climbs heavily into his car, which, with a deep-throated roar, speeds into the night-=-de§tination nnknpwnl After a hair-raising drive, he accidentally stumbles npon a gang landing contraband machine guns labelled "CaTpet Sweepers," and here begins one of the most exeiting phases of this breath-taking drama, that will keep you thrilled to yonr finger-tips, until the final fade-out. "Ziegfeld" to. Conclude "The Great Ziegfeld," Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer's giant pieture is still shpwing to crowded houses at the Regent Theatre, bat concludes to-night. Challengiug all competition, "The Great Ziegfeld" has more first-class entertainment crowded within its sixteen reels than any other pieture labelled "musical" or otherwise. Aside from being a musical exrtavagauza this story of America's greatest showman and the Glorifieation of the Medern Girl nlso posgesses a fine dfamatio quality. It has a triple-star treat — William Powell, Myrna Loy and Lpise Bainer— to tell a story guggested by the career of Florenz Ziegfeld, with Powell as Ziegfeld, Misg Loy as Billie Burke and Miss Rainer as Auna Held.