REGENT THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 13

REGENT THEATRE

“Come and Get It” Edna Ferber's fine novel, “Come and Get It,” makes a stunning picture. In a few words it is a parable based on the test, “There’s no fool like an old fool.” Barney Glasgow (Edward Arnold) is a ganger in a big logging camp in Wisconsin way back in 1888. lie has brain as well as brawn, and puts a proposition up to old Hewitt, the mill-owner, to gridiron a certain block of timber country, they to be partners and he to marry Hewitt’s daughter. Before that scheme is consummated Glasgow goes on a spree with his logging crew at the end of a great season, and in a dance-hall meets Doha Horgan (Frances Farmer), who in 'singing to the mob and otherwise helping to lamb them dotvn. Glasgow is drawn to the girl, and as he is Hush with money, he gets her away from, the place, and / Lotta learns to love him. Then comes a ■telegram from Hewitt calling for a showdown, and Glasgow deserte Lotta, and carries out his bargain, leaving his Swedish mate, Swan Bostrom (Walter Brennan) to break the news of his desertion. Swanj a fine character, is so sorry for Lotta that he consoles her by marrying her, though he knows she loves Glasgow. The latter prospers, and becomes one of the wealthiest men in the State, and has a mature son and daughter. One day he is persuaded to vifit his old pal Swan, at Iron Hidge. There he meets a new Lotta (Swan’s daughter), and the living image of the woman he ouce loved. He persuades Swan, with his nieces and daughter to move from Iron Hidge, and after lavishing money on them, nt length discloses his love for the young girl, who • has imagined that he was doing everything out of friendship for her father. Repelled by the girl, he is still further maddened by the fact that his son is attracted to Lotta, and. catching them in one another’s arms, he orders them from the house. The end is inevitable—his head teaches him that he has been an old fool, and the prospect is happiness for all. Edward Arnold gives a very fine performance as Glasgow, and Miss Farmer is another star in prospect. Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Mary Nash, Mary Christians, and Cecil Cunningham, do excellent work in character roles. The picture takes in the finest pictures illustrating the lumber industry that have yet been seen here on the screen. The programme includes s-xtme excellent and intimate views of Paris, and ‘ Moving Day,” the craziest of the Wnlt Disney series of Mickey Mouse Cartoons.