STORY OF COURAGE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32309, 6 September 1943, Page 5

STORY OF COURAGE

“DUKE OF WEST POINT” PROGRAMME AT REGENT ADVENTURE AND ROMANCE With Joan Fontaine portraying the leading lady, and with Louis Hayward, Richard Carlson, Tom Brown and Alan Curtis appearing as. the four important males in the story, the thrilling adventures and romances ofplebes (freshers) enrolled at the United States Military Academy are humorously and dramatically unfolded in Edward Small’s “The Duke of West Point;” which will show at the Regent Theatre, Tuesday and Wednesday. As. the story opens, Steve Early arrives from England, where he has been spectacularly successful on the Cambridge ’Varsity Rugby team, to start life as a West Point Cadet. Ac-' customed l to a goodly amount of pampering by his wealthy parents and society friends, Steve is “meat” for the yearling corporals who proceed to make his life thoroughly miserable and to take him down several pegs. How Steve, along with the other plebes, go from one misadventure to another, weathering storms and l heartbreaks until the thrilling climax, when West Point plays its annual ice hockey game with the Royal Military College of Canada, is told in a series of fastmoving, poignant scenes, Joan Fontaine, who was recruited by Producer Small to play the feminine lead after she completed an important role in “Gunga Din,” is the attractive lady who causes collective fluttering of hearts among the young cadets. Partnered at the beginning of the story with Alan Curtis, she becomes the “heart interest” of Louis Hayward, when carrying a mattress, he stumbles on the curb, does a dizzy spin, falls flat on his face at the feet of the lovely heroine, and is thus unconventionally introduced.

FINALLY TO-NIGHT “THE TALK OF THE TOWN ” “The Talk of the Town,” will show finally to-night a - the Regent Theatre.