REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 117, 3 June 1937, Page 10

REGENT THEATRE

GRACE MOORE PREMIERE Doff your hats to one of the most completely captivating pictures over to grace a local screen. At tbe Regent Tbeatre, Columbia's new Grace Moore vebicle, "Wlien You're in Love," unfolds itself to the undisguised pleasure of its audience. The film treats its audience to a StOry that would be .weloome even witbout music. It is a delicious tale by that master' of screen Writers, Robert Riskin, wbo penned sUch comedy hits as "Mr Deeds Goes to Town" and "It Happened One Night." Witb this film, too, Riskin makes his dobut as a director, and he can well be proud. This picture concludes its season on Friday. The Regent scores yet another txiumph on Saturday, when the NeW Zealand premiere of ' ' Maid of Salem, ' ' the latest Paramount production, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred Mac.Murray, will be given. MacMurray plays the role of Roger. Coverman, a fugitive from; Virginia, where he had dared question the king's prerogative. He takes refuge in old Salem, in the Massachusetts Colony. Fear of arrest makes it necestary for him to hide in his uncle's home and it is there that he meeta the loveiy Puritan maiden and the romance begins. There are secret meetings 'in the forest, where he teaches her the graceful measures of the gavotte, and tells her of his love. Unknown to either, they are observed and, after he leaves, when the famous witch scare of 1692 breaks out, she is accused of having dealings with the devil, In support is a stage act — the two adagio dancers, Trevor and Dawn — well-known to Hastings theatre-goers.