REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE.

Starring Jeanne Eagles, supported by 0. P. Heggle anil Reginald Owen, "The Letter," an all-talking screen version of the dramatic Somerset Maugham play, is the current feature at the Regent Theatre. The story concerns Leslie Crosbic and her husband Robert apparently a happily married couple who live on .a rubber plantation in Singapore One evening Robert goes into the city on bus? ness, and Leslie at once sends -i letter to Ueoffrey Hammond, a dissipated bachelor on a fp«prTt"l& V lantatlon' Tho arrival of the mnnrt Z," mA* IOVC accue !><"«ccn Hammond and a Chinese woman. Hammond immediately goes to the Crosblo bmvalow where h.°pn 1S| S'i lOt bj;,the Jcalo»s I-eslfe, who has been in love with him. What follows concerns the letter and exciting and dramatic incidents crowd thick to an uuusual climax. The acting ol the principals adds to the dramatic intensity^ ot the story. The supports, themselves a rare entertainment, include Pathe News and Re--Jiciv, Schubert's Friend," one of the Famous Music Master series, songs by Tito Schipa, the -..mous tenor, and numbers try Rudy Yalec and -:■ orchestra. •"..--