REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“CLOUDS OVER EUROPE.” The final screening of “Clouds Over Europe”, the record-breaking comedy takes place this evening. Ralph Richardson is wholly delightful in the main role. "HOLD MY HAND."

Stanley Lupino’s stage and screen successes are so numerous that we have come to expect great things as normal from this gifted comedian. “Hold My Hand” is a worthy newcomer to the entertainment world and lives up to the Lupine tradition. It will be showing at the Regent Theatre tomorrow. The gags crackle and whizz in the best Lupino manner, but always with that sure touch of comedy which distinguishes the real thing from mere buffoonery. He has a new screen partner in Fred Emney; anyone who has not yet seen this large comedian trip from a room, daintily and circumspectly, after grumbling out a devastating line, has a new laugh to come. To help the fun team into and out of trouble, there are three leading ladies, Sally Gray, Barbara Blair and Polly Ward, who please the eye or sing and dance with equal facility. Jack Melford and John Wood are other excellent ingredients of this Lupino confection and to top all, some of the snappiest music of the season, which arrives at just the right moments. A splendid array of featurettes include an inspiring study of the British Navy.