REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD.” No happier combination of stellar players has been achieved in recent months than that of Claudette Colbert and James Stewart, who are currently to be seen together on the Regent screen in “It’s a Wonderful World.” Miss Colbert at last has found a delightful successor to her Academy Award winner, “It Happened One Night.” James Steward was never more happily cast than as her partner in some of the zaniest doings eyer created for the screen. With amusing situations tumbling over one another, and sprightly dialogue rattling off the laughs at almost machine-gun pace, the story reveals Stewart in the role of Guy Johnson, private detective, hired to keep an irresponsible, oft-married millionaire playboy out of trouble. When the millionaire is accused of murder, Stewart becomes involved. He escapes to seek a solution of the murder and is caught in the act by Miss Colbert who plays Edwina Corday, a poetess. Here is where rhyme and reason become hopelessly and hilariously mixed as the pair proceeds to track down the real murderer. They become involved in a series of daring exploits and clever deductions, with Miss Colbert in her most scatter-brain-ed and delightful strain and Stewart turning in one of his most engaging comedy performances as the muchtried and hard-tested amateur sleuth to whom the poetess, with her unaccountable vagaries and unpredictable whims, is an even greater feminine mystery than the murder both are trying to solve. Superb featurettes complete the programme.