REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“HOTEL IMPERIAL.” “Hotel Imperial,” the story of a magnificent love forged in the crucible of a world at war, introduces to moviegoers one of the most dazzling women ever to appear on the screen—blonde Isa Miranda, who co-stars with Ray Milland in the picture which will be finally shown tonight at the Regent. A special feature of this brilliant production is the beautiful singing by the famous Don Cossack Choir. Specially selected featurettes complete the programme which is one of great merit from first to last. The plans are at Nimmos and the theatre.

“TARZAN FINDS A SON.” “Tarzan Finds a Son!” fourth of the famous Tarzan jungle adventures, reuniting Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, will bring to the Regent tomorrow a new character, Tarzan Junior, and introducing in the role five-year-old Johnny Sheffield, America’s most amazing child athlete. The boy plays the foster son of the jungle couple, swings through the air on vines with Weissmuller, engages with him in thrills of underwater swimming, is rescued from a rhinoceros, and figures in other thrills. “Tarzan Finds a Son!” deals with the I finding of a baby in a plane wrecked in the jungle. Tarzan and Jane adopt | and rear it. A safari penetrates the jungle in search of traces of the plane to clear up a legacy and the child becomes the object of a plot by heirs who do not wish the youngster’s existence known. Tarzan refuses to give up the boy, but Jane believes he should be returned for his birthright and tricks her mate. When the party is captured by savages and brought to a torture chamber Jane helps the boy to escape to summon Tarzan who arrives with his chimpanzee and elephant cavalry. Thrills include the routing of the native torture orgy and amazing rescues from wild animals. When Weissmuller rides his elephant Queenie, Johnny rides Baby Bee, smallest baby elephant in captivity. The players include lan Hunter, Henry Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Henry Wilcoxon, Larane Day and Morton Lowry.