REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“THE OUTSIDER.” Lines of dialogue that are as arresting as the crack of a whip abound in "The Outsider,” now showing at the Regent Theatre, starring Mary Maguire and George Sanders. Here are a few samples.- Sanders, the quack to a famous surgeon, “My degree is A.F.D.—After Doctors Fail.” And again on the subject of his outrageous fees, “There are only two fees — nothing and too much.” To a sympathetic listener he says of his unpopularity—“l’m not ethical and I’m not English—that’s the whole trouble.” A poor patient, dragooned into touting patients for him, says “he may be a crook and a swine, but he can cure people.” When the daughter of a famous surgeon. leaves her father’s house for Ragatzy’s to try his cure, drama rises to fever heat, particularly when affections and loyalties complicate the medical ethics of the situation. Add to that George Sanders’s portrayal of the bonesetter as a handsome, blatantly cocksure foreigner who is nearly always infuriatingly correct in his judgments and who falls in love with his patient and drama of terrific proportions result. Mary Maguire’s characterisation of the artistic girl, apparently doomed to eternal lameness, is a flawless performance. “THE SUN NEVER SETS.” Never has British effort and sacrifice been more stirringly depicted than in "The Sun Never Sets," which will come to the Regent Theatre on Saturday. The traditions and high sense of duty of the British diplomatic service is the theme, and the central figures are pictured as belonging to a family which has followed the service for generations. Although Douglas Fairbanks Junr., is billed as the leading star, honours go to Basil Rathbone, who gives another of his.faultless performances as a responsible official on the Gold Coast. Unscrupulous foreigners, under the pretence of a scientific expedition, choose the jungle to cloak nefarious activities, and secretly mine the precious molybdenum to dispose of at a colossal price when the war which they are fostering should break out.