AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13241, 17 January 1941, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT i ■ ■ j , A gripping story of the New York police and of a father who must put a halt to the criminal activities of i his own son, “Sergeant Madden,” 1 screening finally to-night at the Regent Theatre, presents Wallace i Beery in his most masterful characterisation to date. As Sergeant Madden, thirty-year veteran of the : police, soft-hearted, plodding and idealistic, Beery epitomises the finest : traits of “New York’s Finest.” He is the cop on the beat to the minutest detail. And as the father who . must track down the son whom he ! has failed to impress with the traj ditions and ideals of the job. Beery is magnificent. Tom Brown, as the I adopted son whose loyalties are torn j both ways .shofs a fine conception of another colourful characterisation. 1 . I TOWN HALL i i —“ ! u "Richard , ‘Arlen' and Andy Devine share starring honours in Universal’s drama c of the Canadian north-woods, “Man From Montreal,” which comes ; to-night to the Town Hall Theatre. Action, romance and suspense are said to be combined in this picture •: which has Kay Sutton and Anne Gwynne in the leading feminine roles . opposite the stars. i “Three Sons,” an RKO Radio film also opening to-night at the Town Hall, revolves around the efforts of a merchant prince to erect a mercantile dynasty on the ashes of the Chicago fire of 1871, features such noted players as Edwaro Ellis, Kent j Taylor, and J. Edward Bromberg.