AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 13026, 3 May 1940, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT The martyrdom of the renowned and patriotic Avar-time nurse Avho suffered the penalty of death for smuggling convalescent soldiers out of the combat zone, is the basis of “Nurse Edith Cavell,” starring Anna Neagie and opening to-day at the Regent. The distinguished English star has a notable part as the altruistic British nurse, Avho, aside from ministering to soldiers of all nationalities during the occupation of Belgium by the Germans, helped hundreds of Wounded fugitiA r es to escape to Holland. The heart-gripping story is said to offer the star of such English films as “Queen of Destiny” and “Victoria the Great” her most dramatic of A r ehicles. TOWN HALL With Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane as its stars, “Brother Rat,” Avhich is proclaimed as the best comedy ever made, opens at the Toavh Hall to-day. This is a play laid in and about the Virginia Military Institute, which is by no means co-educa-tional, and the photoplay has nary a song nor a tap-step in it. It deals with the difficulties into which one of the cadets gets himself by entering upon a secret marriage, distinctly against all rules and regulations. Racketeering methods of powerful gambling rings are dramatically disclosed in Universal’s topical production, “Gambling Ship,” Avith Robert Wilcox and Helen Mack, the associate feature at the Town Hall. Wilcox appears as an undercover man masked as a gangster, Avhile Miss Mack portrays-an enterpreneur of the gambling racket he has been assigned to investigate.