REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

MAN’S CASTLE.” The new programme at the Regent Theatre tonight will be headed by a most entrancing story, "Man’s Castle,” the east 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 lhe 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 restraint 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 he attempts a robbery and fails. But the results of that failure straighten out the tangled romance of these children of poverty. Glenda Farrell sings several numbers in her characterisation of a musical comedy star attracted to the rugged Tracy. "Man’s Castle” was adapted to the screen by Jo Swerling. from a play by Lawrence Hazard.. The supporting programme is one that will appeal to picture patrons.