THE REGENT.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1938, Page 2

THE REGENT.

“MAYTIME” FINALLY TONIGHT. At the Regent tonight will be shown for the last time that noted film “Maytime,” with Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy in the leading roles.

COMING TO-MORROW. “MR DODD TAKES THE AIR.” Tomorrow afternoon and night there will be screened that sensation of music, mirth and melody, “Mr. Dodd Takes the Air.” It is a lavishly produced. comedy with an excellently written screen play written by William Wister Haines and Elaine Ryan from the Kelland original. Notables in the cast include, besides Kenny Baker, Jane Wyman, Frank McHugh, Alice Brady, Gertrude Michael, Henry O’Neill and Ferris \ Taylor. Harry Warren and Al Dubin, Warner Bros, song-writers, were on a New York vacation-business trip when they got the assignment to write the words and music fox’ the songs in “Mr. Dodd Takes the Air,” which is Mervyn LeRoy’s musical comedy for Warner Bros. They had completed two of the required five numbers by the time they left New York. Those were a comedy song, “If I Were A Little Pond Lily,” and “The Girl You Used To Be.” The ballad was written, both words and music, on the train two days before the song-writers had an opportunity to' try it over on their piano. The othei’ songs—“Am I In Love?” among them —were finished in the team’s bungalow on the Hollywood lot. Seats may be reserved at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.