REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“ESCAPE FROM YESTERDAY.” A wild, roistering Cossack from the bleak plains of Russia who tries to transplant his mode of life to rural America and rule his son’s life by gangster methods forms the exciting central figure of Paramount’s “Escape From Yesterday,” which will be finally presented tonight 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. The supporting subjects include a most inspiring subject “Grey’s Elegy" in which the actual setting and history of this immortal poem is told in most inspiring fashion, a 8.8. C. musical embracing the interesting items of the airways, a Pate Pictorial of unusual events, “History of England,” a thrilling number for every British heart and the latest air mail news of European events. It is seldom that such an outstanding presentation is possible on any one programme. The plans are at Nimmo’s and the Theatre. “THE WOMAN DOCTOR.” The change of programme at the Regent Theatre tomorrow is headed by that brilliant success, “The Woman Doctor,” featuring Freda Innescourt, Henry Wilcoxon, Claire Dodd, and Sybil Jason. It is an intriguing modern drama, daring in its theme, absorbing in its presentation. A successful woman doctor, she forgot home, husband, and child. Nothing mattered but her all-absorbing profession until she had to decide —which was her greater duty—to her family or to her work. It is a sincere human story of a woman doctor who won a place in a man s world —but lost her place in her husband’s heart. Who was to blame? —the wife who gave every hour io the call of her profession —or the lonely husband? Not for many a day has a picture of such exquisite sentiment come to the screen.