AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 12007, 27 April 1936, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

The SLegent I‘iuil .Mimi will be seen 'mi the screen tbe Regent Tlientre to-day in his latest .starring veliiele, “i)r Socrates.” in what is saitl In lie one of I lie most dramatic roles of ids Career. The plot centresabout Muni playing a country" doctor, once a great surgeon of the city. ' who has lost his nerve through the death on the operating table of his liancee.- A shattered nervous wreck, ironically dubbed' Hr. .Socrates, lie lias little success until a band of. bank bandits terrorise the' district. Kidnapped by the-, bandits to dress the wounds of those shot in battles with police, he recognises (heir hide-out ami is the means of their capture by placing tlie Government agents on their trail. Ann Dvorak plays opposite Muni. The second feature at the Regent.to-day is another lien Travers’, comedy, “Fightfng Stock," featuring Tom' Walls, and Ralph Lynn, lien Travers lias provided the necessary ingredients for a whole, hearted farce, and under Tom Walls' astute and experienced direction- no, single point :of : inirlli-ihaking, no. single “spot of bother” has been' overlooked. This'.excellent.-donhie feature programme will be screened al the Regent to-day only and'will tji£ transferred to! the. .Town Hall-M’or" Screening on Tuesday and Wednesday. ■;