REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“FOUR'S A CROWD.” The entangled romances and ambitions of an American newspaper publisher, an editor-publicity agent, a woman reporter, and the granddaughter of a millionaire, provide an amusing theme for “Four’s a Crowd,” the new feature at the Regent Theatre. From the opening scene until the final lines, this film is packed with tangled and comic situations. Together with excellent supporting films, it makes a programme which is bound to be popular. The acting of the principals, particularly Errol Flynn, who takes the part of the editor-publicity agent, is excellent. Flynn is an energetic publicity agent who at the request of the woman reporter, Rosalind Russell, is hired as editor of a newspaper owned by Patrie Knowles. The editor is given full control of the policy of the newspaper, and in that capacity he decides to attack a millionaire whose daughter he loves, but who had previously refused to give him publicity work. His circulation increases and he succeeds in making the millionaire •‘the most hated man in America.” Flynn then tries to act in a dual capacity and to get the millionaire as one of the clients of his publicity business. Complex difficulties arise with the owner of the newspaper who had formerly been engaged to Olivia de Havilland, the millionaire’s granddaughter, and Flynn is forced to sell himself to the millionaire as his grandson-in-law and to become engaged to the reporter. The complicated romances do not become untangled until the final scenes, which include a race between two taxis and another motor-car, in which the enraged millionaire is following. The supporting programme includes an excellent technicolour cartoon, and a musical tabloid.

Rich Remarque’s world-famous story that Germany banned, "All Quiet on the Western Front,” starring Lew Ayres. Louis Wolheim and Slim Summerville, will be shown from Wednesday till Friday of next week.