AMUSEMENTS
REGENT
All the riotous colour and gorgeous beauty of the South Seas are alive on the screen in Paramount’s greatest Technicolour production, “South of Samoa,” which screens finally to-night at the Regent Theatre. Dorothy Lamour, more gaily dressed than ever, is the vibrant castaway on un uninhabited island, while her companion is a chimpanzee she has raised and trained. Then lucky Robert Preston and Lynne .Overman are forced to abandon ship on her paradise shore. The romance and the traitorous actions of J. Carrol Naish, Polynesian chief, who is chasing the sailors, mount up with, outstanding suspense to the. climax.
TOWN HALL
Presenting a colourful action story laid in the great north woods country of Canada, Universal’s “Man From Montreal,” is now at the Town Hall Theatre with Richard Arlen hnd Andy Devine co-starred. Kay Sutton and Anne Gwynne are featured, in feminine roles. A composite of the lives of many great: merchant princes who amassed gigantic fortunes by erecting mercantile dynasties upon the ashes of the disastrous Chicago fire, is deftly welded into the new screen drama. “Three Sons,” which is also at the Town Hall Theatre. Edward Ellis has the leading role.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13243, 20 January 1941, Page 1
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