AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 248, 18 October 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“THE LADY VANISHES” “The Lady Vanishes” which screens at the Regent Theatre on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and stars Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Paul Lukas, and Dame May Whitty, is a new and bettor spy play; a magnificent sensation that- is sweeping the country with record seasons. Based oil the story “The Wheel Spins”, and produced by the mail who gave us “The 39 Steps While the wheels spin, a mysterious woman passenger, a British spy. disappears. Conspirators contend she was never on the train.... hut in an exciting finale Redgrave and the girl unmask a desperate p10t... .A thrilling story, bright touches of comedy and the- brilliant direction of Alfred Hitchcock combine to make the film one of the year’s most enter tapping pictures. ‘ ’ . • .>:• ; - ,'T ‘‘PARIS HONEYMOON” - - : t • ‘ At the Regent Theatre on Meduesday, 'Thursday and Friday. Bing .Crosby will lie seen in his latest motion picture offering. Paramount’s “Paris Honeymoon”. Aided and abetted «j>y a competent supporting cast whit-ft includes Shirley Ross (who was sec-n with Bing before in “Waikiki Wedding”), Eraneiska Gaal, the char.ming..young beauty whom Cecil B. DeMille recently “discovered” in Hungary; the..on© and Lilly Akim Tamil-off, and many others, Crosby does much to fortify hni.„» claim to a high place among, screen favourites. I

‘‘Paris Honeymoon” is the story of a young American millionaire who, is forced to go to Paris in ordt|r to expedite a divorce for' ALiss lto.ss, with. whom lie is in lbve. In Paris he meets Tamiroff. a castle salesman and general factotum of a. Balkan country known as ‘•Pushtalnick.” In “Pnshtalnick,” Ping meets a heautiiul little peasant girl, played by Miss Baal, and loses his heart to her. From there on things get pretty, complicated and high coniedv takes the helm.