AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11931, 24 January 1936, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

The Regent

I.ovc si ml mystery form mi intriguing combination in “Star of Midnight,” 11.K.0.-Itiulio's romantic drama, starring William Powell and Ginger lingers, which screens to-morrow only at the Itegent Theatre. Telling a strikingly different type of love story, in which flic delectable Miss lingers, fresh from triumphs in the musical “Itoherta." ill the pursuer, and Powell, the ostensibly wary quarry, the picture deals, with a baffling mystery in modern New York''* pageant and glitter. A beautiful woman disappears, a newspaper eolnmnist is killed under strange cirenmstanees, and three different factions undertake the solution of the case, each witli a separate motive. Powell and Miss Ungers team as a "Sherlock and Watson” combination in running down clues to the mystery. The two stars, long established among tlie screen's foremost favourites, appear together for the first time. "Star of Midnight” is based on the serial of the same title by the late Arthur Somers Koche.

Town Hall Jiao West, ParamomiT-s v.tonsc clianucr, returns to tbe screen, in ".Vow I’m a Lady” which comes to the Town Hall Theatre to-morrow in a new type of Him role. .Smiling, and getting her men as usual, seven of them this time, the star of the "Gay Nineties” dramas, acts a modern girl in "Now I’m a Lady," who knows what she wants and how to get it. The action of “Now I’m a Lady" opens in a small mid-western town where Jfae West is a cowboy’s sweetheart.

lu “The Hustlers' Roundup/* the latest Tom Mix Tniversal feature, which opens at the Town Hall Theatre to-morrow, a real, rodeo, with thrilling events, such as roping steers, lariat throwing, stajre-coach races, and many other breath-taking stunt*, will be incorporated in the film. The east supporting Tom Mix in this aetion-tilm includes Diane Sinclair. Noah Beery/ dr., William Desmond. Douglas Dumbrille, Hoy Stewart and Frank Laekteen. The picture was directed by Henry MaeKae, aee of western directors.