REGENT THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 151, 21 March 1936, Page 15

REGENT THEATRE

“The Ghost Goes West” At all three sessions yesterday the Regent Theatre was packed for the latest Alexander Korda triumph, “The Ghost Goes West,” which features that charming and handsome young English actor, Robert Donat. Ever so much out of the common, “The Ghost Goes West” is a delicious comedy in which romance is deftly interwoven with superstition, and events of the eighteenth century rub shoulders with the twentieth through the medium of a most glamorous Scottish ghost. Murdoch Glourie, for netting on the battlefield in a manner unbecoming of a Glourie, is doomed to haunt the old castle at midnight every night until he shall have lowered the pride of the hated McLagguns. The castle descends to Donald Glourie, of the present generation. who is so much in debt that he sells it to an American, one Martin, in the chain store grocery line, not so much for Martin’s sake as for his pretty daughter Peggy, whom the susceptible Donald rather likes. Martin has the old castle demolished stone by stone, panel by panel, for re-erection in America. Even on the ship going across the Atlantic the restless Murdoch takes his midnight walks abroad, and causey some confusion by appearing at a fancy dress ball. The news that a real ghost is on bolli'd is broadcast, and on arrival at New York “it” is given a great reception. There is only one scoffer. Bigelow (Martins rival in business), and he is invited to the grand opening of the rebuilt castle. At the banquet Bigelow becomes audibly sceptical and insulting about the Glouri,ghost, and is humiliating Martin when the clock strikes the midnight hour. At that moment Bigelow declares defiantly that he is the last of the MacLaggan clan, on which a fierce gale sweeps the festive board, and the ghost of Murdoch Glourie confronts • the scoffer, and hounds him down until he groans an apology with his face in the dust. Whereupon Murdoch's sentence as a ghost is repealed, and lie is recalled to the heaven of his ancestors, while Donnld finds his heaven in the arms of lovely Peggy Martin. There is admirable restraint and definite charm in the acting of Robert Donat in the dual roles, and Jean Parker is sweet and comely as Peggy.