RECENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 69, 8 April 1937, Page 12

RECENT THEATRE

"THRBE MEN ON A HOESE" "Three Men on a Horse," the Pirst National nonsense-film, ecreens at the Begent to-night. The drama of the meek little rhymster who makes a precarious living by writing greeting card verses — and has an uncanny faculty of picking winners of horse raees, although he never bets on one — is even more laugh-provoking on the screen than on the stage. The play is stil] going strong on Broadway though well in its second year — and seven road qompanies are touring in it in the States — and one in Australia. "Three Men on a Horse" features those two popular purveyors of good cheer — Prank McHugh and Joan Blondell. McHugh is priceless as the timid, jingle-writing Erwin (pronounced Oiwin) and Joan is at her cleverest as Mabel, tlie' liardboiled ex-chorus girl whose roughneftk boy-friend places her as body-guatd of Oiwin after he has been made an unwilling prisoner. A coming attraction to the Regent is "It Isn't Done" . starring C6cil Kelleway, a comedian popular with many Hawko's Bay theatre-goers. This is the first Australian picture with an all-star cast. Others taking part, include Shirley Ann Richards, Frank Harvey 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 Jttegent, Hastings.