REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1941, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“RHYTHM ON THE RIVER.”

The current programme headed by the brilliant "Rhythm on the River," will be finally shown tonight.

"MYSTERY SEA RAIDER.”

The Regent Theatre has a doubly interesting programme tomorrow night with “Mystery Sea Raider" at the top of the bill, followed immediately by the sensational picture, “World in Flames,” which is itself almost of feature length. Henry Wilcoxon, Carol Landis and Onslow Stevens are the stars of “Mystery Sea Raider," an exciting fictional account of how the Germans may have secured merchant ships as raiders. The captain has a

small tramp steamer lying in the mud for want of cargo; and he has a girl in a show across the Atlantic. He has told her pretty stories of how his ship is getting on. but she soon senses the truth when she comes back home. On the way over she meets a handsome, friendly foreigner, “something to do; with imports,” and she conceives the I idea of getting him to charter the cap-1 tain’s ship. He does so, but the shipj is no sooner at sea than he reveals' himself as a German naval oflicer, that j he has rigged the ship as a decoy and I supply ship for submarines, and that he intends to leave false wreckage about to indicate that she has been sunk, it is an exciting, unusual and quite topical story.

The associate feature, “World in ’ Flumes.” is Paramount’s record of the ; last Hl years of world history. The highlights of such a period, compressjed in fifty-odd minutes, make a ire- ' mentions impression. Scenes of the ■ Spanish War, almost forgotten in the 1 .more recent European struggle, arc ■ made topical by the relation in which they arc placed to recent events; Mussolini is seen, perched high above the crowd, running through his repertoire of personal salesmanship, a line cue for a laugh, which is damped hastily by shots of the Abyssinian War. This dramatic survey of world events, telescoping 10 years of a world on the edge of war. is guaranteed to hold the interest of any audience. The brilliance and the epoch making constituents of ' The World in Flames” are outstanding, and make an immediate appeal. In a most explicit manner the vital points associated with; .those occurrences leading up to the present war, the ambitions and aim* ’ of the .Axis members and all that is associated with the determination of the; enemies of Britain to .smash democracy : and keep the world under the heel <a'j brutality and slavery as represented j by Hitler and irn. gang are mu ’, graphically portrayed. The picture should make mi immediate appt a! to die patriotic feelings <•; every Britisher and show the urgent nerd for a : troni; Home Guard.