REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“THE UNDER-PUP.” A new motion picture star, possessing a remarkable singing voice and a personality at once warm and refreshing, is Gloria Jean. She is 11 years old. and her coloratura voice and natural appeal dominate a picture replete with romantic, comedy and musical “surprises.’’ She takes the leading part in an outstanding picture, “The UnderPup," which will be finally shown tonight. Presented by Professor Joe Pasternak, the man who also introduced Deanna Durbin, Gloria Jean will undoubtedly be compared to her stellar predecessor yet she has a personality all her own. Gloria is by no means the whole show, however, nor is she the sole newcomer. One of the year’s longest casts has been gathered, and MAN’S CASTLE.” The new programme at the Regent Theatre tomorrow night will be headed by a most entrancing story, “Man’s Castle,” the cast of which is headed by Spencer Tracey, Loretta Young, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly and Marjorie Rambeau. These actors and actresses provide one of the finest displays of acting ever seen on the screen, and the picture is one that should not be missed. The management consider that it is without doubt the most poignant and moving love story ever brought to the screen. Tracy is seen as a shiftless, homeless vagrant, and Miss Young as a hungry, helpless waif whom he rescues from the streets and takes to his ramshackle tin shanty in the riverside “dumps.” Footloose and irresponsible, he soon becomes restless under the lestraint of living so long in one place, and he tells the girl he doesn’t love her and plans to leave her. She, happy in the home she has, sees her world crumbling beneath her. The girl announces that she is soon to become a mother but that means nothing to the vagrant, except that he must now provide the money to care for both before he can leave. To get money ihe attempts a robbery and fails. But the results of that failure straighten out the tangled romance of these children of poverty. The supporting programme is one that will appeal to picture patrons.