REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“STRONGER THAN DESIRE.” Virginia Bruce and Walter Pidgeon in their second appearance as a romantic team score again in “Stronger Than Desire,” melodramatic romance of New York society which will be shown at the Regent Theatre tonight. The story is a combination of happy married life, legal intrigue, a blackmail plot growing out of a flirtation, and a murder mystery with a photographic clue that provides something new in lhe unravelling of crime puzzles. Pidgeon plays a prosperous lawyer whose wife suspects him of a flirtation and retaliates with one of her own, to discover that she has been playing into the hands of a blackmailer who threatens to compromise her. In a struggle over her letters he strikes her. She instinctively picks up a revolver on his desk, shoots him, and flees, to undergo inward torture while his wife goes to trial for murder, and her husband struggles to save her from the chair. The solution to the ci ime and clearing of the situation comes in a dramatic episode in the courtroom after the husband has found the clue which points to his own wife, then the second clue which clears both women. “GOODBYE MR CHIPS.”

The outstanding picture, “Goodbye Mr Chips,” which has shown to record business throughout New Zealand, will open its Masterton season of six nights on Saturday. The chief characters in the film are taken by Robert Donat. Greer Garson, and Terry Kilburn, supported by a brilliant cast, “Goodbye Mr Chips,” with its superb characterisations poignance and quiet humour should have a record season in Masterton.