REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

A BRILLIANT ROMANCE. Teaming Annabella and Robert Young, “Bridal Suite.” a gay romantic comedy, will be finally shown tonight at the Regent Theatre. Never were two ' leading players more happily cast than I this pair, assuming respectively the roles of an irresistible manageress of a Swiss inn and an American playboy. And when it is added that this romantic comedo- twain are bulwarked in their zany doing by such screen artists as Walter Connolly, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Arthur Treacher anc Billie Burke, picture patrons may well gather that “Bridal Suite” is a picture not to be missed. “RIO.” A League of Nations cast and a two-hemisphere locale provide an international aspect for “Rio,” Universal's new production, which will be shown at the Regent Theatre tomorrow, Sweden is represented in the person of Sigrid Gurie, who was reared there, although she was born in Brooklyn, New York. The British Empire provided South African-born Basil Rathbone, and the Irish-English Victor McLaglen, as stars. Mexico, with a heritage of old Spain, is prominent in Leo Carrillo, while Robert Cummings upholds the prestige of Yankeejand. The director is John Brahm, who made his first acquaintance with a motion picture studio in Paris, wrote Ms first script in England, and became a stage producer in Vienna and followed that profession in Berlin. Geographically, “Rio” embraces two continents, Europe and South America. Early sequences of the picture are placed in Paris, with a background of boulevard cafes, then, it moves to Rio de Janeiro. Several sequences were filmed in sellings representing a jungle prison. The famous Albury pyjama girl mystery. which has baffled the Australian police for years, is brought to the screen in a film of the same name, which is showing with "Rio.” The finding of the body of an attractive girl, clad only in pyjamas, was made more mysterious by the fact that she could not be identified, in spite of efforts which were eventually world-wide. A large reward awaits any person able to identify the murdered girl. The box plans are at Nimmo’s and the theatre.