REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1938, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

‘■ROSALIE” FINALLY TONIGHT. “Rosalie” will be finally shown at the Regent Theatre tonight. "THE LAST GANGSTER.” Edward G. Robinson, who played the first gangster in motion pictures, now plays the last. He comes on Thursday to the Regent Theatre in “The Last Gangster,” a dramatic story of a man’s term in a penitentiary, with James Stewart. Rose Stradner, glamorous new actress from Vienna, and a notable cast. “The Last Gangster” tells of the imprisonment of a “public enemy” and the struggle of his wife, who did not know his calling, to lose her identity and save their child from the disgrace attached to his name. Miss Stradner plays the wife and Stewart the newspaperman who befriends her and with whom she finally finds happiness. The dramatic highlight is the scene in prison where Miss Stradner tells Robinson she at last knows the truth, and must leave him and take their baby away for ever. A riot in the mess hall of a Federal penitentiary, grim details of prison life and the armoured prison train, roaring actively in great newspaper offices, and inner workings and haunts of gangland provide the dramatic background for the central romance. Players include Lionel Stander as the gangster’s henchman, Douglas Scott, John Carradine, Sidney Blackmer, Grant Mitchell, Edward S. Brophy, Alan Baxter, Frank Conroy and Louise Beavers.