REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 76, 16 April 1937, Page 12

REGENT THEATRE

"THE GORGEOUS HUSSY" With brilliant acting performances from such screen headliners as joan Crawford, Ro.bert Tgylor, Lionel Barrymore, Eranehot Tone, Melvyn Douglas and Jnmea Stewart, "The Gorgeous Hussy" opens to-morrow at the Regent Theatr© as one of the finest pictures to come from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Perhaps the most notable high-light of tho pieture is the teaming of Miws Crawford with Bobert Taylor, Ihe most talkod about iilm discovery since the first appearance of Clark Gable. . Also outstanding is the eharacterisation ,of Lionel Barrymore as Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United State®. In an almost uncannily lifelike makeup Barrymore gives a portrayal of the fiery and muoh maligned Jackson that niyst be listetl as the greaiest of his career, Tlie story of "The Gorgeous Hussy ' ' deals with the tempestuous Peggy O'Neal, tavern-keeper 's daughter who shoekod the staid society. of Washington at the age of fifteen and eontinued through a startling career which led her into the eentre of life on Capitol Hill. It is Miss Crawford 's most ambitious role and proves her to be one of the screen 's finest actresses Comedy Ends To-night "It Isn't Done" concludes at the Kegent to-night, this fine Australian comedy definitely proving that overlea productions rank with the best. Cecil Kellaway is the mainstay of the pieture but the supporting cast is also good.