REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

‘•IT’S IN THE AIR.” "It’s in the Air,” will be finally shown tonight at the Regent Theatre. "ITS LOVE I’M AFTER.” ; Movie fans have seen Leslie Howard and Bette Davis together in a tragedy ("Of Human Bondage”), a melodrama ("The Petrified Forest"), and now they are about to present themselves on the screen of the Regent Theatre in a comedy called "It’s Love I’m After.” And it is said to offer conclusive proof that Leslie Howard and Bette Davis are ideal team-mates, no matter what angle their movie may take. It has had splendid reviews from those privileged to witness the pre-showings at Hollywood and elsewhere. Howard is offered to the fans—as a stage actor of the type that used to be called “matinee idol,” and to look at whom all the sentimental young women of Broadway used to cluster about stage doors. Miss Davis is shown as his leading woman. They really love each other, but that does not prevent them from stealing every possible scene they can, and wrangling with each other in undertones while they’re hypnotising their audiences with their art. The beautiful and youthful Olivia de Havilland has the part of a smart and wealthy heiress (though she is as sentimental as the rest of the stage-door fans) who has fallen in love with Howard. The problem that had to be worked out, was how to get Olivia out of her lovemadness and restore her to the arms of her real fiance, played by Patrie Knowles. These geniuses solve the problem nicely—but only after there’s been innumerable difficult and highly humorous complications. Among the other notables with lesser parts are Eric Blore, Bonita Granville, George Barbier, Spring Byington, Georgia Caine, E. E. Clive and Valerie Bergere.