REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1941, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“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 be shown at the Regent Theatre tonight. Saga of the Death Valley pioneers who dug borax and hauled it to the railroad. 162 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 is good. Noah Beery Junr., shows himself a chip off the old block in his first role with his uncle, and Anne Baxter, newcomer from the New York stage. Douglas Fowley, Clem Bevans as the prospector, Chuckawalla; Berton Churchill as “Jackass” Brown, and Arthur Hohl as the fake marshal are all authentic period pieces. 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.