REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“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 tonight. 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 Yankeeland. The director is John Brahm, who made his first acquaintance with a motion picture studio in Paris, wrote his 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 settings representing a iungle 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 for this particularly good programme. “CLOUDS OVER EUROPE.” The programme on Saturday night will be headed by “Clouds Over Europe,” containing some of the greatest comedy element ever brought to the screen. It is a picture which has packed houses throughout New Zealand.