REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1941, Page 8

REGENT THEATRE

“MURDER IN SOHO.” An absorbing story of London’s night life in pre-war days is told in the film “Murder in Soho,” which heads the new programme at the Regent Theatre tonight. The action of the picture centres round the activities of a notorious night club in London’s Soho, the owner of the club being a sinister person admirably portrayed by Jack la Rue. Marco, the night-club proprietor, is determined to make his place the most-talked-about and spectacular rendezvous in London, and his methods of achieving his ambition are in keeping with his warped mental outlook. The fulfilment of his ambition is, however, possible only when a certain obstacle —a man who knows too much —is removed. So with characteristic calm Marco orders his “removal.” His downfall is brought appreciably closer when he falls in love with his club hostess, played by Sandra Storme. His crowning misfortune is that the girl he is infatuated with is the widow of the man whose death he has brought about, the outcome being full of dramatic incident. “Murder in Soho” is more than an out-and-out mystery thriller; it lodks deeper into the minds of those strange creatures who ran many of the so-call-ed fashionable night clubs (or “bottle parties,” as they were known in 193739) in the little streets of Piccadilly and Shaftesbury Avenue.