REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1941, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

j -THE WORLD IN FLAMES." I The large audience at the Regent 1 Theatre had placed before it a magniI ficent programme, containing three '| brilliantly outstanding pictures—- “ The World in Flames.” “Mystery Sea Raider.” and the capture of Bardia by ■ the British troops, principally Ausj tralians. “The World in Flames” is a ' picture no one can afford to miss who lis desirous of being thoroughly con- ! versant with the events leading up to | the present war. The tragedy of Eu- , rope is vividly placed before the au- ■ dience in a most astounding picture, j The descriptive explanations made by ' them actually on the spot where the j terrible war havoc took place in vari- ; ous countries makes the picture one ; that will be long remembered. , "The World in Flames,” is Paramount’s record of the last 10 i years of world history. The high- , lights of such a period, compress'ed in fifty-odd minutes, make a trei mendous impression. Scenes of the j Spanish War, almost forgotten in the: more recent European struggle, art’; made topical by the relation in which, they are placed to recent events; Mus- ■ solini is seen, perched high above thei crowd, running through his repertoire! of personal salesmanship, a fine cue for 1 a laugh, which is damped hastily by j shots of the Abyssinian War. The! brilliance and the epoch making j constituents of “The World in Flames" I are outstanding, and make an imme-' diate appeal. In a most explicit man-1 ner the vital points associated with! those occurrences leading up to the] present war, the ambitions and aims! of the Axis members and all that is as- i sociatcd with the determination of thei enemies of Britain to smash democracy; and keep the world under the heel of! brutality and slavery as represented! by Hitler and his gang are most graph- . ically portrayed. The picture should • make an immediate appeal to ihe pat- j riotic feelings of every Britisher and; show the urgent need for a strong; Home Guard. The capture of Bardia presents a i realistic picture of modern warfare, j and shows the brilliant work of thel British troops, and the thousands of j Italian prisoners taken and material' captured. ! Henry Wilcoxon, Carol Landis and! Onslow Stevens are the stars of “Mys- ■' tery Sea Raider,” an exciting-fictional i account of how the Germans may have! secured merchant ships as raiders.