REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1938, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“DOUBLE WEDDING.” The season having been extended William Powell will be seen finally tonight at the Regent Theatre with Edgar Kennedy and Myrna Loy in “Double Wedding.” Powell, playing a penniless artist who lives in a raccoon coat and a trailer, falls in love with Myrna Loy for the seventh time in as many pictures. Kennedy’s supporting role is his first since his return to Hollywood from New York, when he definitely announced that he would never again venture behind the footlights, preferring to devote himself exclusive to motion pictures. “PORT OF SEVEN SEAS.” Hollywood, which has searched the world over for novel and interesting motion picture backgrounds, brings a new setting to the screen in “Port of Seven Seas,” which will come to the Regent Theatre on Thursday, for this picture has the colourful and unusual French seajJhrt of Marseilles as its locale. Wallace Beery, in a role arrestingly different from his more recent “bad man” portrayals, stars in the new drama as the rough but tender-hearted owner of a waterfront cafe and the distinguished supporting cast features the inimitable Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Sullivan, fresh from her triumph opposite Robert Taylor in “A Yank at Oxford,” John Beal, Jessie Ralph, Cora Witherspoon, Etienne Girardot and E. Allyn Warren. The new picture is based on the triumphant stage play, “Fanny,” written by the noted French dramatist, Marcel Pagnol. Pagnol, a schoolteacher before becoming one of the most successful of modern playwrights, was born in Marseilles and’is familiar to the last degree with the fascinating city which is recreated on the screen in twenty-six lavish sets.