REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“THE DEAD END KIDS.”

“The Dead End Kids” mqke of “Little Tough Guy,” which will be' shown finally tonight at the Regent Theatre, a well-balanced mixture of tragedy and comedy. Tragedy is the central theme of the picture, but it does not entirely dominate it, and the young actors are really brilliant in some uproarious scenes. “MANPROOF. ” An ultra-modern story of a foursided romance, “Man-Proof” opens on Wednesday at the Regent Theatre with a stellar cast headed by Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell and Walter Pidgeon. Famous for her portrayals as the ideal American wife, Miss Loy now deviates from her usual roles to play a single woman whose man is stolen by a rival.

In lavish settings of metropolitan flavour, Mis Loy appears as a newspaper artist in love with a social climber, Walter Pidgeon. Pidgeon weds an heiress, Rosalind Russell, instead, and they leave on their honeymoon. Franchot Tone, a cartoonist, secretly loves Miss Loy but will not admit it to her. They remain “pals.” Miss Loy temporarily forgets her defeat until the honeymooners return, when she renews her siege.

The wife, Rosalind Russell, finds her husband in Miss Loy’s rooms and offers him a divorce. As he will lose his soft job with his wife's rich father, he declines the divorce. Miss Loy at last realises the foolishness of her infatuation for the married man. She and Tone pledge to remain “pals,” but her mother knows they are in love.