REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 84, 26 April 1937, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

"THREE SMART CIRLS" Dainty Deanna Durbin, a briUiant and altogether charming personality, is the attraction at the Regent Theatre to-night, when Univereal's gay comedy, "Three Smart Girls," will begin a season. Surrounded by a east of established cinema favourites, including Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady, Bay Milland, and Oharles Winuiuger, this youthful newcoiner to the sereen livee up to the advantage uotiees of her musical genius. She proves, too, that she js mueh more than just a singing child prodigy, Possessing exquisite Beauty and rare eharro, the taleuted girl gives a smooth perfQrmance. "Three Smart Girls" tells the amusihg story of three daughters of a rich New Yorker who upset their father's romance with a gold-digging blonde. The title roles are played by little Miss Durbin, Nan Grey, and Barbara Read. As the father, Charles Winuiuger essays a new type of roie aud turus in a flne performance. Misa Barnes plays the part Of the golddigger aud Miss Brady is ideally east as the blonde 's scheming mother. Mischa Auer is an impoverished nobleman whoui the three voungsters hire to lure the adventuress away from their giddy parent. Ray Milland. John King, Ernest Cossart, Hobart Cavanaugh, Lucille Watson, and Nella Walker are others in the east. The outstanding supporting prcv gjramme includes the first of the 1937 series of the "March of Time," which is an advance on the old series, a sports tliriller "Skiing is Believiug," aud th* latest uewsreeis