REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1938, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“IT’S IN THE AIR.” At the Regent Theatre tonight the noted comedian George Formby will be seen in that outstanding comedy, “It’s In The Air,’’ which is a laugh from start to finish. It’s exhilarating fun with George Formby right at the top of his form. He also finds time and place to sing three excellent numbers and has a romance with the sergeant-major’s daughter. The whole film goes with a real swing. Polly Ward, Garry Marsh, Julien Mitchell, and Hal Gordon head the big supporting cast. George Formby dons sky-blue with the mistaken idea of saving his sister’s airman sweetheart from exposure, and almost succeeds in wrecking the camp with his sublime clumsy ignorance, nearly giving the sergeant-major apoplexy, and becoming the butt for every practical joker in the service. One wildly funny scene shows him quartered in the sergeantmajor’s own rooms, thinking they are part of the visitor’s quarters, and there are many others in like vein. The fun reaches extravagant heights when “our hero” does duty as a- dispatch rider, careering madly over the countryside on a motor-cycle combination with the local O.C. as his terrified passenger. Of course, from the minute he “joins up,” audiences will be waiting for the inevitable sequence when Formby takes to the air. And when it does arrive, everybody gets a generous money’s worth of riotous fun, because he finds himself alone in the heavens aboard a plane about which he knows nothing, performing weird figures in the sky, looping the loop, swooping earthwards in hair-raising dives, loosing live bombs and a hail of machine-gun bullets —in short doing everything but break his neck. There will be two sessions tonight, the first one commencing at 7.45 o’clock and the second at 10 o’clock.