Alec Regan, Film Man And Broadcaster, Leaves Auckland For Sydney On Tuesday

Radio Record, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 21 August 1939, Page 13

Alec Regan, Film Man And Broadcaster, Leaves Auckland For Sydney On Tuesday

for Australia on Tuesday is Alee Regan, popular manager of Wellington’s Majestic Theatre, and well known as a broadcaster. from Auckland ‘Mr. Regan has plans for his future in Australia, but he prefers not to disclose them yet awhile. Anyone -who ‘has even the most casual acquaintance with radio knows Alee Regan’s voice. He has the distinction of being the oldest-timer over Wellington’s popular 2YD, his "Diary of a Film Fan’’ having gone on the air regularly for ‘more than 80 consecutive weeks. He is well known, too, from other stations. ‘‘Stars I Have Known’? was a very popular

feature over 2YA not so long ago; -‘‘Starlight’’ made his Pee

voice known in every home that tunes in to 2ZB (and

everyone does!), and his ‘‘Reverie in Retrospect’? was a feature that could have gone on for many more weeks. For the past three years, Alee Regan has been managing Wellington’s Majestic, where the big M.G.M. films are screened, and before that he was at the Wellington Regent, the Auckland Regent, and Dunedin manager for the J. C. Williamson Picture Corporation. Radio, film and stage fans are going to miss Alec Regan a lot-and so are his fellow film-men, who recently showed their appreciation of his cheery manner and good fellowship by electing him president of the eapital city’s flourishing 33 Club.