REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 46, 24 February 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

"TRADER HORN.” Mighty drama of a primeval world of atavism rampant in almost unknown spots of the glome; thundering adventure, strange rites of a savage people in the jungles —these are the background for an everlasting story of devotion, love and romance, in “Trader Horn,” Metro - GoldwynMayer's gigantic filmisation of the famous book, concluding to-night a return season at the Regent Theatre. To describe "Trader Horn” staggers the imagination. Harry Carey gives a magnificent performance in the role of Trader Horn, the guardian of Peru, his friend’s san, and of the golden-haired Nina T. “White Goddess” in a temple ot a savage tribe. Duncan Re.ialdo plays the role of Peru convincingly and Edw.'na Booth is beautiful as well as dramatic in the heroine’s role. “I Am tho Law” and "She Had to Eat.” Painted against the stark background of a big city and replete with fresh dramatic turns which make it a great original amongst the more familiar types of anti-gangland films, Columbia’s “I Am the Law” will be presented at the Regent Theatre tomorrow, with Edward G. Robinson convincingly starred as its dynamic fighting prosecutor. Panicked by his frantic antics as the “Phantom Troubador” in “Wake Up and Live,” audiences practically laughed happy-go-lucky Jack Haley right into the lap of fame, the laughable lad’s reward for having hi-jacked almost every com-

edy scene in the Walter Winchell-Ben Bernie musical hit. Now, however, Jack wants to wake up and love, which he does with gusto and Rochelle Hudson in the Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox comedy, “She Had to Eat,” coming to-morrow to the Regent Theatre. Featured in the supporting cast are Arthur Treacher and Eugene Pallette and director Malcolm St. Clair boasts three more comedians in minor roles. Captured by coppers, ditched by '-ft millionaire and tricked by tr’ n— everything happens to cl - ck in “She Had to Eat,” nli he falls for a girl who's the . little dish— who’d rather ea! ,c one.