REQENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1941, Page 2

REQENT THEATRE

"THE ROARING TWENTIES.” Tg be jiwwn tonight at the Regent Theatre i- "The Roaring Twenlier, co-starring James Cagney and PriseiHri L:nw. The filus, which deals with the Uirbiiletit arid evvuifiil decade in the history <>f the U.S A. following the World War. is based on an original aory by Mark Hollinger, ace newspaper writer whose articles and stories are read the world over. "The Roaring Twenties" is the antnbi' graphy <-f .1 nation pone crazy. The day of dapper and the speak-easy, of mob rule, of fantastic prosperity. In France ■is tlie war ends, three soldiers (played by (’;wn«-y. Jeffrey Lynn and Humohrey Bogart ( make joyful plans for their return home. One plans to go back to h:s job as garage meehuinc •. ■ • ■ the third ■c< if.ng -it talk of pi<’:.;hiti.»n, intends t<s g > back to salis'i:- , (' i •.< ; . h- t’ ■ f ’ - ■.vard to meeting the girl who has been j writing him cheery ietters ihmughmit the war. But in the world to which: they return their plans arv no longer! , ( i-y gets a b driving a ; .11.‘i ti) - " j u‘- hen <>•■■ L> thi a,- -)m;g-.r.g ravki-t. Mmmwhile he nasj h.l I;’ OCH ‘ '.Vla'llit I .’lT’.. H<' ; J i man < nt o' witii In wartime) pals, and Bogart, who has been worltiu- with a rival bootdegKw: Kang. | , ' .;■ x Oil h : !L- i- '.'i:;- LVIi:: t d 1 ’ 1 ' i i ~ <’ trji? -iip’‘ ’•■.•'i ■ . RidiLiiA lui ihv* Cfvi'R <if IHO UMiiVc U'K’Y 3l! ldM‘ U'i the ■-.‘Hb hirn bu* iii ihr crash Cwh b v ; ~,... I