REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 107, 22 May 1937, Page 14

REGENT THEATRE

"LIBELLED LADY" Four hilarious sweethearts, laughing, fighting, loving their way into your hearts — and bringing with tjiem the punchiest and peppiest comedy of all time. Such is "Dibelled Lady," sereening at the Begent to-day. Not one — not two — not three— but four great stars gloriously, uproariously, hilariously tpgether 1 Take two great Ziegfeld stars— one from "Suzy" and one from "San Francisco"; put thenx together in hilarious comedy, direoted by the man. who made "A Tale of Two Cities" and you have Jeaix Harlow, William Ppwell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy under the direetion of Jack Conway dn "Libelled Lady"— in other words you have sure-fire entertainment. The four stars, ably aided and abetted by Walter Connolly, Charley Crapewin, Cora Witherspoon, E, E, Clive, and an all-star cast, _ romp gaily through the hilarious action and situations of one of the brightest and gfeatept comedies ever to graoe the qcreen. The action of the film centres about a society girl w_ho considers that a ! newspaper has insulted her and filqs I a damage suit for five million dollars. | Needless to say the sued nqwspaper is thrown into an' uproar and its managing editor solicits the aid of a former star reporter to extricate the paper from ifcs difBculties. In his scheme to rnake the hejress drop her suit tlie reporter suceeeds in making lier fall in love with hira* It is when he, in turn, falls in love with her that complications begin and the tale takes an unexpected and hilarious turn.