REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 51, 2 March 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“DOCTOR RHYTHM” One of O. Henry’s greatest, stories, “The Badge of Policeman O’Roon,” is screening at the Regent Theatre in ParamouJit’s “Doctor Rhythm,” a hilarious musical comedy starring Bing Crosby, Beatrice Lillie and Mary Carlisle. Dr. Bing goes out masquerading as a policeman to help a friend in distress, and is given a life sentence by the girl he is assigned to guard. The associate feature is Paramount's "Her Husband Lies,” a drama of a lie that had to be told, which features Gail Patrick and Ricardo Cortez. “The Lady in the Morgue” For positively eerie suspense that keeps you on tender hooks till the law gets its prey in the last scene, Universal’s thriller, “The Lady in the Morgue,” which screens at the Regent Theatre on Saturday, can't be beaten. This screen version of Jonathan Latimer’s celebrated Crime Club novel is a Grade A baffler, with more twisted clues, zestful roughouse and picturesque characters than have been seen on the screen in a month of Sundays. Chief among these characters is Detective Bill Crane, the hard-boiled ' pleasantly alcoholic sleuth. He i< played by Preston Foster, who created this character on the screen in "The Westland Case.” Foster is simply grand in the part, as is Frank Jenks in the role of Crane’s clownish assistant, Doc Williams. Patricia Ellis does a swell job as the girl in the case and Tom Jackson is very amusing as a numskull officer of the law. The second feature is Ihe funniest, fastest, luniest hit of the year with the dizziest, daffiest comedians ever starred in one grand jamboree of mirth and merriment! That's “Life Begins in College,” Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox musical smash starring the comedy-mad Ritz Brothers and featuring Joan Davis, Tony Martin and Gloria Stuart and a tremendous cast.