REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“HOLIDAY” NOW SHOWING.

The title “Holiday” provides little clue to the nature of the first-rate picture which heads the programme at the Regent Theatre tonight. It is concerned more with the secret of personal happiness. Cary Grant plays the part of a rising young business man whose heart’s desire, strangely enough, is to earn enough money early in life to enable him to drop routine work and spend his time inquiring into the scheme of things. Having met and become engaged to a girl at a winter resort he calls at her New York address to find that she is the daughter of a millionaire. Commercial success with money and yet more money is all that ■the millionaire aims at, and having been persuaded by his daughter to accept the prospective son-in-law he sets about arranging a career for him. There are two members of the rich family who have dreamt of other things than the money god. They are the fiancee’s younger brother and her sister Linda (Katherine Hepburn). The brother realises his fate but is unable to break away from the authority or his father. Linda is more rebellious and in the prospective new member of the family she recognises a kindred soul. Of course the solution to the personal troubles to the various people in the story is easily foreseen early in the picture, but one suspects that that was almost intended. A generous; amount of amusing by-play is provided by Edward Everett Horton, cast as a professor who also believes in personal freedom before everything. The supporting features ’include newsreels of recent world events,- a laughable coloured cartoon, an interesting exposition of golf shots by some of the world’s champion players, and a community sing picture.