WAIPAWA REGENT THEATRE
"SPBED" WEDNESDAT Romance goes into a dramatic high for Wendy Barrie, James Stewart, Una Merkel and Weldon Heyburn in "Speed," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's new auto-raeing story showing at Waipawa to-night. The two men share leading man honour's in the picture in whieh both are rivals for Miss Barrie until Heyburn returns to his first love, Miss Merkel, who far a time vamps Stewart and provides competition for Miss Barrie in the double-barrelled love stoiy. The picture is Miss Barrie '3 fiist for M.G.M. and also Heyburn 's first since, signed while on the New York stage, he returned to Hollywood unc:er a new contract. Ted Healy as rhe comieal mechanic has a female stooge in the person of Patricia Wilder, and Ralph Morgan plays Dean the auto raanuf aeturer. The story, an original by Lawrence Bachman and Milton Krims, deals with a young inventor 's discovery of a supercharger that powers the world 's fastest car. Michael Fessier wrote the screen play which Lueien Hubbard produced and Edwin L. Marin directed. The production provides. the biggest role to date for James Stewart, one of M.G.M. 's newer "finds" who scored outstanding ' ' hits ' ' with Jeanette McDonald in "Rose Marie," with Jean Harlow in "Wife Versus Secretary" and with J anet Gaynor in ' ' Small Town Girl. ' '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 86, 28 April 1937, Page 3
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215WAIPAWA REGENT THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 86, 28 April 1937, Page 3
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