REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

. “ST. MARTIN’S LANE.” “St. Martin’s Lane,” featuring Charles Laughton, will be shown finally at the Regent Theatre tonight at 7.45. TOMORROW’S ATTRACTION. A British picture has turned London West End theatre policy upside down. The success of “Stolen Life,” the great Elizabeth Bergner film, screening at the Regent Theatre tomorrow, which was first shown in England early in January, has surprised even the most optimistic. Although it started its run early in the New Year, at the end of April, it was still taking big money at the Carlton Theatre in the fourth month of its London run. Considerably more than 100,000 people had seen it and the stream of eager theatregoers was still filing in an undiminished volume past the Carlton box-office. Meanwhile Paramount were giving “Stolen Life” preliminary runs in the Provinces and at Glasgow it had an extended run at the Paramount Theatre. It is rare for any picture to run for more than a week in any provincial centre but at Glasgow it took more money in the second week than in the opening week of its run. “Stolen Life” upset the Plaza’s weekly-change policy and played practically to capacity for three solid weeks. Regular patrons who come to the Plaza every week were satisfied to see the same picture two and three times. Many famous people have seen “Stolen Life” during its run. T.M. the King and Queen had a special performance at Sandringham and recently the Duke and Duchess of York visited the Carlton to see the film.