REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 March 1941, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“21 DAYS TOGETHER.”

The final screening of this thrilling romantic drama, featuring Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh takes place this evening.

“20 MULE TEAM.”

Affording Wallace Beery his most colourful and convincing characterisation since “Viva Villa,” and teaming him with two other veterans. Leo Carrillo and Marjorie Rambeau, to form an unsurpassable threesome. “20 Mule Team,” will open at the Regent Theatre tomorrow. Saga of the Death Valley pioneers who dug borax and hauled it to the'railroad, IG2 miles away, by mule trains across blistering desert sands and through sun-baked canyons, "20 Mule Team" finds Beery outdoing any of his recent roles as Muleskinner Bill Bragg, best driver on the route by his own admission. As the Indian “swamper,” Piute Pete, Carillo is at his dialectic peak. And as the hotel and saloon owner, Jessie Johnson, Miss Rambeau comes nearer to filling the shoes of perfect comedienne than any--one else in the past half dozen years. Supplying the junior “heart interest" are a young pair of great promise, Noah Beery Junr., showing himself a, chip off the old block in his first role with his uncle, and Anne Baxter, newcomer from the New Y’ork stage. Douglas Fowley, Clem Bevans as the prospector, Chuckawalla; Berton Churchill as “Jackass" Brown, head of the Desert Borax Company and Beery’s boss, and Arthur Hohl as the fake marshal are all authentic period pieces. Filmed in the original locale amid breathtakingly picturesque settings, “20 Mule Team” has all the attributes of the best Westerns and keeps its action rolling at all times. The supporting ' featurettes include the latest Air Mail News, a brilliant Passing Parade item, a Crime Doesn t Pay number, and a further adventure of the ever popular Our Gang. Plans are at Nimmo’s and the Theatre.