‘CADETS ON PARADE’

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3263, 14 May 1943, Page 5

‘CADETS ON PARADE’

ACTION AND THRILLS PASSAGE FROM HONGKONG " ■ ■ ■- \ PROGRAMME AT THE REGENT . Hailed as a “heart”-crammed drama of young America, Columbia’s exciting new film, “Cadets On. Parade,’’ will show to-night only at the Regent Theatre, with Freddie Bartholomew and Jimmy Lydon in the leading roles. Directed by Lew Landers, the story is concerned with the adventures which two boys, of totally different worlds,- have when they learn together to be men!

In addition to Bartholomew and Lydon, the cast also includes Ray Hatton, Joseph Crehan, Minna Gombell, Kenneth MacDonald, Robert Warwick, and a host of capable youngsters. 1 Howard J. Green penned the screenplay from a story by Frank Fenton and Martha Barnett.

“PASSAGE FROM HONGKONG” Strange thrills and exotic adventure in the Orient are combined with a novel tale of mystery in the new Warner Bros, film, “Passage From Hongkong,” which will show to-night at the Regent Theatre. Keith Douglas and Lucile Fairbanks, as a couple of Americans stranded in turbulent Hongkong, become involved in a series of murders and political intrigue, which startles a city already hardened to crime.

In an atinosphere as tense as that of Hongkong it might not be considr* ered too unusual for a British military officer to be found murdered in his hotel room, but the claim that he was killed twice and that there are’ four persons who confess to the crime, it is a challenge.Keith, who had the room next to that of the murdered man, is accused of the crime, because it was his knife that was used for the killing.. Miss Fairbanks, for whom Keith had promised to help book passage from Hongkong because of impending international trouble, tries to aid him. “ QUIET WEDDING ” Paramount’s hilarious and frisky comedy, “Quiet Wedding,” is that in name only. Not to say that the picture is rowdy, hut the wedding that was’ planned as a quiet affair by two young people suddenly develops into an avalanche of presents, and a maelstrom of well-wishers. In a country village .of England, where everyone knows everyone else, it was not to be expected that one of the fairest daughters would sneak off and deprive all the village of’ the pageant of a marriage. So the hilarity of pre-marriage days is something that you will chuckle over when you see “Quiet Wedding,’* the Paramount comedy starring Margaret Lockwood at the Regent Theatre on Saturday and Monday. The production days of the picture were anything but quiet also. Germany was blitzing for most of the time, and in fact two of the crew of workers were killed by a bomb bn the studio. However, the damage was repaired and production went on. The only difference was that players, and workers slept on the sets so that they could take advantage of any times when Jerry was not on one of his raids.