WAIPAWA REGENT THEATRE
"SPEED" WEDNESDAY Romance goes into a dramatic high for Wendy Barrie, James Stewart, Una Merkel and Weldon Heyburn in "Speed," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's uew auto-racing story showing at Waipawa on Wednesday. The two men share leading man honours in the pieture in which both are rivals for Miss Barrie until Hej-burn returns to his first love, Miss Merkel, who far a time vamps Stewart and provides competition for kliss Barrie in the double-barrelledTove stoiy. Tbe picture" is Miss Barrie's firsl for M.G.M. and ' also Heyburn 's iirsl since, signed while on tho New York stage, he teturned to Hollywood unc:er a new contract. Ted Healy as rhe comical mechanie has a female stopge in- the person of Patricia Wilder, and_ Ralph Morgan plays Dean the auto marmf acturer. The story, an original by Lawrence Bachman and klilton Kritas, deals with a- young inventor's discovery of a supercharger that powbrs tho world 's fastest car. Michael Fessier wrote tlie screen play which Lucien Hubbard produced and Edwin L. Marin direeted. The production provides the biggest role to date for James Stewart, one of M.G.M. 's newer "fmds" who seored outstanding "hits" with Jeanette McDonald in •"Roro Marie," with Jean ITarlow in "Wife Vorsus Secretary" aird with Janot Gaynor in "Small Town Girl."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 85, 27 April 1937, Page 3
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