REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1940, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“ANOTHER THIN MAN.” That uproarious, mystifying and inimitable screen couple, “Mr and Mrs Thin Man,” personified by William Powell and Myrna Loy, are back again in the latest adventures of a series which has taken the entire country by storm and will be shown at the Regent Theatre tonight. The new picture, entitled “Another Thin Man,” unfolds an even more novel mystery plot than any of its popular predecessors, with the action even more fastpaced and the dialogue more rib-tick-ling than ever. Powell once again enacts the unperturbed and debonair Nick Charles who takes his sleuthing lightly but proves himself to be as much of a master mind as the greatest of Scotland Yard. Two murders and a mysterious fire are entailed in the latest doings of the “Thin Man” couple and the excitement and suspense never let up until the final fadeout. “Another Thin Man” brings the Charles family back to New York, scene of Nick’s first and well-remem-bered sleuthing triumph, and plunges them at once into the mystery of a murdered tycoon. It moves swiftly through a succession of tense moments, laughs and shrewd deductions against a background which ranges from palatial Long Island estates to Broadway clip joints. As far as this reviewer was concerned, the mystery upon which the daffy doings of the Charles family are threaded was not only intriguing but quite insoluble until the affable Nick got ready to lay the solution upon the line for the law. Myrna Loy romps happily through the picture with Powell and the baby. It is the eighth picture together for this great boxoffice team. A first-rate cast supports the stars, including Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, C. Aubrey Smith, Ruth Hussey. Nat Pendleton, Patrie Knowles and Tom Neal. Asta. the waggish little wire-haired terrier who was inseparable from the “Thin Man” pair earlier in the picture series, is present again, and Nick Charles Junr., is played by William Poulsen, an outstanding juvenile screen find in a year of infant actor discoveries. The featurettes will include pictures relative to the Rumanian crisis, the British “suicide fleet.” air raids in France, a Pete Smith novelty and a glorious Fitzpatrick travel talk.