REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1941, Page 8

REGENT THEATRE

1 “THIRD FINGER, LEFT HAND.”

Myrna Loy. “perfect wife” of the screen, and Melvyn Douglas, prove a brilliant team in “Third Finger, Left Hand,” which will be shown tonight. The new comedy provides Miss Loy with a rampageous wife role and gives Douglas many hilarious troubles. Miss Loy, a fashion magazine editor, invents a fictitious husband for business reasons, and Douglas, a landscape painter, arrives on the scene posing as the mythical spouse. 'She can’t expose her deception, so takes it out by plunging the debonair Douglas into every comical trouble she can think of, even embarrassing him by <scandalising his home-town folks with assumed vulgarity on their honeymoon. Her attorney, Lee Bowman, conspires to get her divorced so that he can marry her himself, and amid the laughable mixup she and Douglas suddenly discover they have been in love with each other all along. Lee Bowman is a romantic figure as Suitor No. Two. Don* aid Meek as an eccentric art dealer adds to the comicalities, as does Felix Bressart, as Myrna’s art editor and coconspirator. There is an excellent supporting programme including “Crime Doesn’t Pay,” and the latest Overseas News.