REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 68, 7 April 1937, Page 12

REGENT THEATRE

"THEEE MEN ON A HORSE" fThree Men on. a Horse," the Eirst National nonsense-film, screens at the Eegent to-night. The drama of the meek little Thymteter who makes a precarious living by writing greeting card verses — and has an uncanny faculty of picking winners of horse races, although he never ,bets on one — is even more laugh-pTOVQking on the screen than on the stage. The play is still going strong on Broadway though well in ite second year — and seven road companies are touring in it in the States — and one in Australia. 1 1 Three Men on a Horse" features those two popnlar purveyors of good cheer — Frank McHugh and Joan Blondell. McHugh is prieeless as the timid, jingle-writing Erwin (pronounced Oiwin) and Joan is at her cleverest as Mabel, tho hardboiled ex-choru'3 girl whose roughneek boy-friend plaees her as body-guard of Oiwin after he has been made an nnwilling prisoner. "It Isn't Done." A coming attraction to the Regent is "It Isn't Done" starring Cecil Kelleway, a comedian popular with many Hawke's Bay theatre-goers. Tlns is the tirst Australian picture with an all-star cast. Otliers taking part iuclude Shirley Ann Hicliards, Frank Harrey and John Longden. The name of the picture may be new to patrons ; that is because the picture is having its New Zealand premiere at the Kegent, Hastings.