AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12820, 15 August 1939, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT . Screening finally at the Regent. Theatre to-night is “The Lady Vanishes,” with an outstanding cast which includes Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas and Dame May Whitty. The film is ’based on Ethel Lina White’s best selling novel “The Wheel Spins,” and is a vivid story of an English governess’ mysterious disapearance from a Continental train. It is packed with comedy and chills. TOWN HALL “Little Miss Thoroughbred,” which opens at the Town Hall Theatre-to-day, introduces to the movie public a new child actress for whom the studio predicts a very glowing future. The child ,is six-year-old Janet Chapman, who plays the title role, a part that fully equals in importance those of the three adult leading players, John Li tel, Ann Sheridan and Frank McHugh. Little Janet has the appealing task of portraying an orphan searching for a father she firmly believes exists, and the complications dT the story ensue when she elects Litel to be her father. Lite! and Frank McHugh are a couple of race track followers "who are trying to make their living by “beating” the horses. Janet is accepted into their strange menage, which also includes Ann Sheridan, as Litel’s wife.