REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON.” The final screening of this great comedy drama with its inspired direction by Frank Capra, takes place this evening. The season has been a most successful one. “LISTEN, DARLING.” When a couple of imaginative persons set out to find a husband for a girl’s mother, anything can happen and does in “Listen, Darling,” which is a story embracing just that situation. It opens tomorrow at the Regent Theatre and furnished one of the laugh, feasts cf the season. Featuring Freddie Bartholomew and Judy Garland with Mary Astor as the mother whose romance they attempt to guide, it is a gem of nonsense with laughs galore, interrupted only by choice serious bits that provide relief with pathos and effective tugs at the heart strings. Alan Hale, Walter Pidgeon and Gene Lockhart form the trio of would-be suitors who fall victim to the plan's of Freddie and Judy and what they go through is plenty. The picture gets off to a terrific pace when the kids, in their eagerness to get Maiy away from the town banker (Lockhart), lock Mary in a trailer and “kidnap” her. Unfortunately, they take along little Scotty Beckett, who more than once throws everyone and everything into a state of laughable confusion before Walter Pidgeon and Mary finally fall in love. A splendid array of featurettes of a wide and varied nature support the feature and round off a great evening’s entertainment.