REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“EVERYBODY SING.” A bright, quick-moving comedy in the traditional musical style is “Everybody Sing?’ showing tonight at the Regent Theatre. Catchy melodies introduced by the latest in “swing” technique help to keep the audience in the best of humours. Thd story is that of a crazy household in which the husband is a playwright of dubious success, the wife a juvenile lead of some twenty years’ experience, the elder daughter a would-be singer of opera, and the younger daughter a quite involuntary “swing” expert. The cook is the household’s chief creditor, and the housemaid also has forgotten when last she was paid. When, however, the banker refuses to function any more, the younger daughter takes her “swing” talent to a night club to save the family. The show ends with that Paradise of Tin-Pan Alley, a success on Broadway, SATURDAY’S ATTRACTION. The idea that money and the accumulation of money are not the main purposes of life is brilliantly expressed in a delightful comedy-romance, “Holiday,” which commences on Saturday at the Regent Theatre. With Cary Grant, and Katherine Hepburn co-starred, the' film vibrates with life. “Holiday” presents a rebellious socialite who knows a real man when she sees one, and a young man who insists/upon doing his own groping in life’s “grab-bag,” rather than marry a million-dollar girl. The problems of “Holiday” are very real to the film’s characters, with humour and honesty, in a grandeur of setting which emphasises the dilemmas of the two rebels. Miss Hepburn, who with easy grace slips into the skin of any character entrusted to her, gives Linda Seton brilliant reality as a casteshackled girl who never permits herself heroics but in whose ultimate” triumph anyone can feel joy. Cary Grant fs cast as the young man who plans to earn enough money to retire while he is still young, so .that he can take a “Holiday” long enough to think things over.