REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“THE SHINING HOUR.” “The Shining Hour” programme will be finally shown tonight at the State Theatre. “GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT.” California as it was in the 1870’s is p. locale for the new lifelike technicolour production, “Gold Is Where You Find It,” which opens on Saturday at the Regent Theatre. Trinity County, in far away northern California, still untouched by twentieth-century civilisation, was chosen as the “location” in order to make the film story of the great feud between the wheat ranchers and the gold miners as authentic as possible. Much of the story is actual history, and much ‘of that history actually took place in Trinity County —making the choice of location a perfect one. The entire production unit, including the stars George Brent. Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Margaret Lindsay, and many others who are featured in the film, spent weeks in the wilds of Trinity. The beauty of the north California country receives full justice on the screen, for it is photographed in full colour, said to be even more natural than “God’s Country and the Woman.” one of the most successful pictures of last year. In the film, the story of the struggle between the ranchers and the miners is told in stirring terms, the ranchers fighting to preserve their fertile lands from the depredations of the miners; the miners maintaining their right to reap their harvest of gold from the earth. A beautiful love story is woven into the epic tale with handsome Irish George Brent and lovely Olivia de Havilland as its principals. Other prominent members of the cast ; are Claude Rains, Barton Mac Lane. John Litel, Marcia Ralston, Tim Holt (young son of the famous Jack Holt), and Henry O’Neill. Splendid featurettes include “Carl Deacon Moon and his Orchestra,” a most engaging and talented orchestra leader, and his Barn Collegians; “Vitaphone Pictorial Revue No. 12,” an interesting pictorial with technicolour, a sequence and the latest overseas newsreels. ___________