REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“SAY IT IN FRENCH.” Sparkling dialogue and spicy humour coupled with sterling acting delighted the large audience at last night’s opening screening of “Say It In French,” showing for a season extending until Friday night. Lobby comments after the show full justified the term “a great show.” The tangled, unusual and daring situations revolve around the return from France of a society playboj 7 , Richard Carrington Junr. (Ray Milland) with his petite and vivacious bride Julie, splendidly portrayed by Olympe Bradna. Amusing complications arise when before Carrington can announce his marriage to his family, who are all in financial difficulties, his father confides to him that he is on the verge of bankruptcy unless confidence is restored to his creditors by the announcement of Carrington’s engagement to Autiol Marsden (Irene Hervey) a rich society girl. Julie agrees to a temporary engagement as does Auriol who has since lost her heart. Humorous situations in which the picture abounds, arise when Julie is mistaken for the new maid by the Carrington family’s droll butler (Walter Kingsford), and is discovered later assisting her husband out of her room early one morning. The part of Carrington’s father is splendidly enacted by Holmes Herbert, and the eccentric shipping magnate in the situation by one of Broadway’s most famous actors of a generation ago, William Collier. The trip to intercept the “Queen Mary” before it sailed to France provided many thrills. Highclass performances are given, by the whole cast which did not detract from the sterling performances of Olympe Bradna and Ray Milland. The excellent entertainment presented included an impressive rendering of Richard Wagner’s immortal overture'to the opera “Tannhauser,” played by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra arid Choir under the baton of Frederick Feher. The fine orchestral work was fully appreciated by all music lovers in the audience. ,

Two splendid newsreels containing excellent features, a Grantland Rice Sports Test, with Ted Husing; an outstanding Popeye cartoon, “Bulldozing the Bull,” and a screen song “Beside a Moonlit Stream,” constitute a bill of fare well worth seeing.