REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“COME ON GEORGE.” The final screening of this record' breaking comedy triumph featuring the inimitable George Formby, take; place this evening. All agree tha George has never been funnier. “ESCAPE FROM YESTERDAY.” A wild, roistering Cossack from the bleak plains of Russia who tries tc transplant his mode of life to rura. America and rule his son’s life by gangster methods forms the exciting central figure of Paramount’s “Escape From Yesterday,” which will open tomorrow at the Regent Theatre, with Akim Tamiroff heading a large cast of popular players. Hard-riding, hardliving and hard-loving, Tamiroff is about to find happiness with his longlost son, when the United States gaols him at Leavenworth as punishment for his bold theft of cattle from government farms. His titanic efforts to effect escape, aided by his son, who becomes an army man, for the purpose, form some of the most exciting sequences filmed in many a season. The picture winds up in a smashing climax, with the bewildered son forced to choose between his duty to his father and his honour as an officer of the army. Leif Erikson has. the role of the son, and others in the cast include Frances Farmer, Lynne Overman and Vladimir Sokoloff. Excellent supporting \ subjects include the latest Air Mail News, a Paramount Pictorial, a Musical Headliner and the ever popular Popeye in “Mutiny Aint Nice.” The plans are at Nimmo’s and the theatre.