REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 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 Night.” James Stewart was never Guy Johnson, private detective, hired to keep an irresponsible, oft-married millionaire playboy out of trouble. The picture will be finally shown tonight. j “STRONGER THAN DESIRE.” • Tomorrow night there will be presented at the Regent Theatre a most entrancing picture entitled, “Stronger Than Desire.” This outstanding film stars Virginia Bruce, Walter Pidgeon, lee Bowman, Ann Dvorak, Rita Johnson, Ilka Chase and Ann Todd Jealously which leads to a blackmail plot and culminates in murder and a sensational courtroom trial and a sensational denouement are the principal story elements of this society melodrama. (Vith time on her hands what does the modern wife do? Why not a harmless flirtation? Pidgeon plays the role of a successful lawyer, whose wife suspects him of a flirtation, and retaliates with one of her own, only to find that she has been playing into the hands of a blackmailer. Notable supports include an outstanding item of the arrival and welcome to H.M.S. Achilles in Auckland. “GOODBYE MR CHIPS.” The box plan, for this outstanding production which commences on Sat- ’ uraay next is now open at the theatre and Nimmo’s. The management advise patrons to book early. , LU&.!