REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 1, 24 September 1937, Page 8

REGENT THEATRE

"SWEET ALOES" TO-NIGHT. "Sweet Aloes," a dynamic drama revealing the human emotions of lovei passion, hate and eacrilice, 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. Two of the outstanding namos in the fllm flrmament are co-starred in "Man in Possession, ' ' which will be' the attraction at the Regent Theatre on Saturdaw. They are Jean Harlow and Kobert Taylor, making their first appearance together in the comedy-dra-ma, based on the H. M. Harwood stage play, "Man in Possession," which enjoyed a hit run on the New "York slage. The new picture, .coming from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, was directed by W. S. Yan Dyke, who has come to be known as "the man who has never made a failure" as the result of hig, direction of such successive hits as "Rose Marie," "San Franciseo," "After the Thin Man," and uumerous other successes. In the supporting cast are Reginold Owon, Una O'Connor, who played Norma Shearer's maid in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," Henrietta Crosman, E. E. Olive, Cora Witherspoon, Marla Shelton, Forrester Harvey, Lionel Br^^am and Barnett Parker.