THE REGENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1938, Page 2

THE REGENT

“COCOANUT GROVE.” The world’s most famous nightclub is brought to the screen for the first time in Paramount’s “Cocoanut Grove,” which will, be finally shown tonight at (the Regent Theatre. Distinctly new type of film fun is presented in this gay romance that revolves about the trials, tribulations, and the final success of an unknown swing band trying to break into the actual Cocoanut Grove, mecca of all young bandleaders. While the production is studded with hit tunes, the story has not been subordinated to music and specialties. “THE PERFECT SPECIMEN.” Errol Flynn, that handsome young Irish .actor Who leaped to fame overnight in “Captain Blood,” a couple of years ago and then carried on with “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” “Green Light,” and “The Prince and the Pauper,” comes to the Regent Theatre on Saturday in a modern co-medy-drhma called “The Perfect Specimen.” The story deals with an eccentric old lady. possessed of many millions who has an ambition to see her grandson raised as an altogether perfect young man, and who for that reason supplies him with an abundance of tutors but keeps him confined to the limits of the family’s vast estate. A young village girl—Joan Blondell—manages to break into the virtual prison and meet tHe young man. She succeeds in getting him outside of his bounds, and he begins to understand and love the world without. It is an outstanding comedy in which also will be seen Hugh Herbert, Edward Everett Horton, May Robson, Beverley Roberts, Allen Jenkins and Dick Foran.