AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13325, 30 April 1941, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT No matter how much you liked "Naughty Marietta," you will again ecjpy "Rose Marie." Again starring Teanette MacDonald and Nelson 1

dy, this Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production is now screening at the Regent Theatre. Replete with haunting music, a tender love story, magnificent photography and backgrounds, it is truly the film sensation of the year. A strong supporting cast includes James Stewart, Reginald Owen, Allan Jones. George Regas. Robert Greig, Una O'Connor and Lucien Littlefield. TOWN HALL The ideal kind of film to drive away cares of any kind at the Town Hall in "Lucky to Me." Stanley Lupino and lovely Phyllis Brooks head a cast that makes this comedy g« with a bang. The main part of the picture is staged at a country house party where Stanley is forced to spend a week-end which ought to have been his secret honeymoon. His wife, plaved by Barbara Blair, goes along as his secretary and has a very disappointing time; her bridegroom is knocked, about more than once by an over-chivalrous boxing peer who loves rescuing distressed blondes.

Little cigars for ladies! From London it is reported that tiny havanas, about the size of a cigarette, are being introduced in the hope that they may tempt lady smokers. Well, well! —and there was a time when ladies simply abominated smoking in every shape or form! That, however, is another story, as Kipling would say. But cigars, little or large, will never supplant cigarettes with lady devotees of the weed —especially in New Zealand, where cigarettes of Riverhead Gold (the finest cigarette tobacco as yet manufactured) are so tremendously popular with smokers of both sexes. "Riverhead," as everyone knows, is one of the famous toasted brands and there, is another toasted cigarette tobacco of surpassing merit —Desert Gold; also three pipe blends, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, and Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog). Largely free of nicotine, owing to toasting, all five brands are of the choicest quality .'and so comparatively harmless that they may be indulged in with perfect safety, even to excess. But have a care when buying. The tobaccos named are the only genuine "toasted."