“ST. LOUIS BLUES”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3296, 4 August 1943, Page 5

“ST. LOUIS BLUES”

MUSIC, COMEDY, ROMANCE > “FLY BY NIGHT” ALSO PROGRAMME AT THE REGENT x “St. Louis Blues,” which will show at the Regent Theatre on Thursday and Friday is packed to the brim with music, with specialty numbers, with top-flight entertainers and entertainment—yet it’s a lot - more than a “musical.” It’s a fast-moving com-edy-romance, with real story interest, ■ ’ plus music. The story, in brief, is that of a Broadway singer— ; Dorothy Lamour—who tires .of being billed as “Aloma,” South .Seas singer, and forced to appear in a sarong. When her train stalls while going through a Missis- ' sippi flood region, she sneaks away from her manager and gets aboard the “St. Louis Blues,” a river showboat run by Lloyd Nolan. Shetries to join Nolan’s troupe but is continually rejected as “too amateur.” And when at last she does. get her big chance—it’e in a sarong, billed as “Aloha”! Showboat performances; ■battles between rival troupqs; fastmoving romance, comedy and action carry the story to a smashing finale, when Miss Lamour, ignoring an injunction obtained by her former manager, proves she a real river trouper staging her act at St. Louis. Paralleling the romance of Nolan and Miss Lamour is a laugh-filled romance between Tito Guizai’ and “Punkins” Parker, whos’s destined to be a real, box-office personality. “Fly By Night,” starring Nancy Kelly and Richard Carlson will show at the Regent Theatre, on Thursday and Friday. “Fly By Night” is a mile-a-minute comedy mystery. He met her at mid- s night! Abducted her at two; married her at four! Imagine! . . . saying “I do” with a man she’d never seen before! A man wanted by the police for murder and marked for ‘murder by gangland’s secret army of enemies. A baggage check from a dead man’s hand sweeps them into a whirlpool of danger and intrigue in the ever-present war behind the war. Sensational adventure that might have ' \ happened, might still happen to you. FINALLY TO-NIGHT “MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY”

■“ Mutiny On The Bounty,” will show finally to-night at the Regent Theatre.