REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 209, 20 September 1937, Page 14

REGENT THEATRE

"SWEET ALOES" TO-NIGHT. "Sweet Aloes, ' ' a dynamic drama revealing the human emotions of love, passion, hate and sacriticc, screens at the Regent Theatre to-night with Kay Francis in the stellar role. The picture, a Cosmopolitan production released by Warner Bros., is based on the smashing stage hit, "Sweet Aloes," by Jay Mallory. The plot of the play is ultramodern and startlingly daring, , and although frank.in treatment, is handled with the utmost good taste. George Brent .has the role of the 'American husbahd of Miss Francis, . and . gives a sterling perf ormance, as also do Roland Young as the playwright, and Patric Knowles as the nobleman involved in the romance. Frieda Inescort has created a remarkable character in the nobleman 's wife, who adopts the other woman's child as her own. She brings to her portrayal great ' charm and intelligence. Henry Stephenson is excellent in the role of the English lord ahd grandfather of the child' he plaus to make his heir, as also is Halliwell Hobbes, father of Miss* Francis, -who dies as 6he is about to tell him of -her difficulties. Helen Flint gives a fine performance as an American doctor, with whom the playwright falls in love. The first half of the programme has been carefully arranged, and , includes the Marck of Time series and the Springboks v. Hawke's Bay lnatch.