The Theatres
SCREENING AT THE REGENT TOU NIGHT > Screening at the Regent to-night. Saturday and Monday with matinees Friday, Saturday and Monday "Sweet hearts." Direct from the sensational* Auckland season at the St. James Theatre. Final screenings at 1.30 and 8 p.m to-day of the popular double feature programme Warner Baxter with Mar_ jorie Weaver and Peter Lorrie in ''I'll Give a Million" also The Jones .Family in "A Trip to Paris." Commencing to-morrow Thursday also Friday, Saturday and Monday with matinees Friday, Saturday and. Monday "Sweethearts." Direct from the sensational Auckland season, at the St James Theatre. . Modern dress, a modem story and modern technicolour befit Jeanette Mac Donald and Nelson Eddy better than anything they have attempted in the past. Despite their successes together in "Naughty Marietta," ''Rose Marie" "Maytime" and "Girl of the Golden West" they establish! still another milestone for the film musical in "Sweethearts." . \ ' ' . A new warmth and vividness of personality colours all their efforts in this new Victor Herbert adapta_ tion, and whether the cause includes the story; the dress or the technicoiour, they emerge as even brighter > luminaries of the Hollywood fir ma- • ment. As stars of a Broadway "Show within a show,'' they are right in. their element and handle the comedy as skilfully as their singing assignments . An unprecedented cast of comed3>- personalities surrounds them, with Frank Morgan as the fluttery show producer, Ray Bnl_ ger winning the limelight he deserves as the show's dancer, Florence Rice Sidding to a series of recent hits with her secretary role, Mischa Auer and Herman Ring the laugh riots they always are, as the battling composer and librettist and Reginald V Gardiner as an ingenious Hollywood f agent. Special mention should be made of an outstanding short feature included in the supporting programme "City of Little Men." Heart warming story of Boys Town, a community of JM boys founded over twenty years ago by a priest who believed that there is no such thing as a bad boy. Everyday life in this smallest of all U.S.A: cities is portraved. ' ■ I —1
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 16, 26 May 1939, Page 4
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