REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1941, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“NEW MOON.” The great Jeanette MacDonald-Nel-son Eddy co-starring musical romance, “New Moon,” ranking with the best of this team's previous successes, will conclude its season tonight. “I TAKE THIS WOMAN.” It was a stroke of genius to co-star Spencer Tracy, generally admitted the screen’s greatest actor, and Hedy Lamarr, whom the world admits to be the most glamorous newcomer in a decade. Teaming of these two leaves nothing to be desired in “I Take This Woman,” which will be shown tomorrow night. The picture tells the story of a woman’s great romance and regeneration, and marks the most romantic characterisation ever assigned to Tracy, as well as the glamour girl’s most dramatic role and her first with a modern American setting. The story deals with a social butterfly who, when a romance with a married man crashes, finds sanctuary by the side of an earnest physician working in a tenement clinic. When the physician risks his career to provide her pleasures in night club society, a dramatic denouement solves their problems. Expertly abetting the two stars by playing one of* her typical wise-cracking comedy roles is Verree Teasdale. Kent Taylor is attractive and excellent as "the other man.”. The whole cast is excellent, with special applause going to Laraine Day, Mona Barrie, Jack Carson, Paul Cavanagh, Louis Calhern, Frances Drake, Marjorie Main, George E. Stone, Willie Best, Den Castle, Dalies Frantz : and Reed Hadley. The picture gives Miss Lamarr more opportunity for good dramatic lines than any of her pictures to date. It also surrounds her with a gay, glamorous background for; a major part of the picture. She dress-, es in modern American costumes for the first time and locks more beauti-| I'ul than ever. And the story is a happy | ending one.