REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“FIRST LOVE” Tonight will conclude the successful season of “First Love,” the romantic, musical picture, featuring the screen's outstanding personality, Deanna Dur-, bin. Patrons of high-class entertainment should not miss seeing it. "BEG, BORROW OR STEAL.” A superb double bill of two great Metro revivals will take place tomorrow night. Heading the presentation is the delightful comedy “Beg. Borrow or Steal,” featuring the inimitable Frank Morgan as an impecunious but lovable humbug flying high as a financier without a cent, hiring castles, promoting companies, chartering ocean liners. All is one to this gay middleaged optimist, but it is all grand fun. A superb cast including Florence Rice, Herman Bing, E. E. Clive, Reginald Denny, and others support the star. Also screening is the thrilling mystery “Society Lawyer.” Picture patrons who like their murder mysteries baffling have something to outguess them in this production, featuring Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce and Leo Carillo. This laugh-provoking and thrilling murder mystery is superbly cast both in its major featured players as well as in its supporting cast. Walter Pidgeon was never seen to better advantage than in his role of lawyer-de-tective in this film. Virginia Bruce sparkles with engaging vivacity and even discloses one of her hidden talents when she sings as a night club entertainer. And Leo Carrillo is at his topmost form in a warmly human characterisation as a reformed gangster. The story reveals the efforts of Pidgeon, Miss Bruce and Carillo to save the life of a client of Pidgeon’s from the “chair" on a “framed” murder charge. Miss Bruce and Carrillo, her night club employer, assist Pidgeon in finding the real murderer, setting a trap for him in which they themselves threaten to be caught. Carrillo loses his life in seeing the ingenious plan carried through but the murderer is brought to justice.