REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1941, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

"MYSTERY SEA RAIDER.” The Regent Theatre has a doubly interesting programme tonight 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.” ;.n < citing fictional account of how the Germans may have secured merchant ships as raiders. The captain has a small tramp steamer lying in the mua for want of cargo; and he lias a girl in a show across the Atlantic. He h;i? told her pretty stories of how his ship is getting on, but she soon senses the truth when «hc comes back home. On the way over she meets a hand; •mie friendly foremm r. “something to d<> with imports," and she conceive.' the idea of getting him to charter the captain's ship. He due;: ; but the shit is no sooner 'at sea than lie reveals himself a.: a German imva! otTicer. that, he has rigged the .ship ar a d <■ .y and supply ship fur xubiiiaraier. ami that he intends to leave fake wreckage! about to indicate that she ha.- been I sunk. It is :m exciting, unusual am! quilt:- topical st< ry. The ieowiate feature, "World ;i: ! Flames,'' is Paramount's record of th* last Itl years of world h:st--ry. Ihe i highlights of such a period, compressed in fifty-odd imputes, make a tre-j meiidous myprwyh.'i;, Stwites of tlie; S;'. < i,. ’ m V.' * ; • . I '. • : made lotocid lb’.- whwi: they ore pli.c.-.l ' , lecmit event . Mmsolini is ;t-em perched high nbiA'e thej crowd, running through his rec-:’.-.t v . of per l omu salesmanship, a fine cm f t a laugh, which is damped h.et.'.;. In shots i t the Abyssinian W.i Th c-ipmg H> years of a v- :Id on th- . o , . » ‘ ( of .Hid,, I . . Tile bi dh.mec ami the -r i|i l.m; ■ are out tandm;.'. . ml i .e : . ; ■ I . ’ W. i . I: . '.hi . e occm i i ma- i .d .. ’ pre l o ; w.-r the ‘ o - . . . .m. . ’■ tlm Am i.m-mbm .a ' ’.’l! ■ .. .wd v. :th 'is• f. 9 : ’i . ’i. , '' . : t?.i