REGENT THEATRE
"storm in a teacup." How a mere mongrel wrecked the career of a would-be Scottish Mussolini and brought about the romance of two charming young people is the story oi the hilarious London Films comedy, "Storm in a Tteacup," which screens at the Regent Theatre to-night. Oecil Parker appoars as the rrovost of a small town on the West Coast of Scotland, who gets out to malco himself dictalor of the North. Traditionally ruthlef- , oue of his first aetions is to order ihe destruction of the dog Patsy, because his owner Houoria Hegarty has failed to pay his licence. Even a Scot can make mistakes, and the Provost failed to reekon either with the Irisb temperament of Honoria, or the English passion t'or justieo of Fraiik Burdon, a.bold young reporter. Burdon 's article exposing the Provost 'a methods create8 the titular storm. It sets the towiis bv the enrs, rcveals the inlrigue between the I'r.i ! vost and tho iocal editor's vvife, and finaUy eauses a natioual scaiulal, which, al'ter hilarious roniplicalions. ends 1:1 jho rout oP Ihe Dictator aud the iriunl* "phaut iuarnage of Honoria to tlio bdil- '! iff aent tn cnnflacjit® VbIjrtt
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 10
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195REGENT THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 10
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