REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1941, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“LUCKY TO ME." The idea! kind of film to drive away cares of any kind will be found at the Regent Theatre tonight in "Lucky to Me.” Stanley Lupino and lovely Phyllis Brooks head a cast that makes this comedy go with a bang. Hilarious fooling is staged at a country- house party where Stanley is forced to spend a weekend which ought to have been his secret honeymoon. Wifey, played by Barbara Blair, goes along as his secretary and has a very disappointing time; her bridegroom is knocked about more than once by an overchivalrous boxing peer who loves rescuing distressed blondes. As a piquant sauce to an appetising dish entertainment, there is a boxing ballet and a few- rounds of the real thing, a bathing dance with Lupino in a coy Victorian bathing dress, a notable song by Gene Sheldon in praise of fish, sung to a guitar and other numbers that will jingle pleasantly in the ears for days after the show.

The supporting featurettes are outstanding and include the latest Air Mail News, a Pathe Pictorial, an interesting Zoo item and an exceptional number "North Sea,” a glorious study of the great testing ground of the present struggle and the great bar to Hitlers proposed invasion of Britain. The plans are at Nimmos and the theatre.