REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1938, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

‘■MERRILY WE LIVE.” Constance Bennett and Brian Aherne are co-starred for the first time in the new Hal Roach-M.G.M. production, “Merrily We Live,” which comes to the Regent Theatre tonight. Billie Burke has the role of Mrs Kilbourne, a philanthropist, whose specialty is the reformation of hoboes who call at her door. Alan Mowbray is cast as a butler; Patsy Kelly, one of the screen’s foremost comediennes, romps through the role of a cook in the Kilbourne establishment. Her life is made hectic through the enthusiasms of Mrs Kilbourne for her newly-discovered tramps and through the butler’s disgust at these humanitarian endeavours. In the role of a Senator’s daughter whose predatory eye setles upon Miss Bennett’s romantic interest in the film is Ann Dvorak. Bonita Granville, not entirely grown-up, but wearing her first floor-length dinner gown in the picture, plays the “kid sister” in the Kilbourne family. She augments her allowance by threats of blackmail and sells petty secrets between members of the family for fancy prices. Tom Brown is the “kid brother,” .whose growing up passes unnoticed by other members of his family.