REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 139, 15 June 1931, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE.

"Morocco" is the feature at the Regent Theatre. Gary Cooper, in an emotional role, comes as a surprise, but the rolo is unusual. Tom Brown, with a past which is a secret even from his fellow Legionnaires in the regiment which is at once the cesspool of dissipation, the home of courage, and the grave of reputations, lives the life of his fellows, a Kay lad with the girls, successful enough in gallantries lo hare become a regimental proverb, and with a thirst that has insomnia. Women mean little to him. Tliey come without asking, even the leaders of the cosmopolitan society ot headquarters. So little do they mean that life is a thirsty blank, and even his thirst Is a traitor to his desire-to forget the past. Across the strait the ferry brings another with a pas which will not lie buried, equally untold and unguessed, Amy Jolly, a vaudeville artiste on the voyage known to the ship's officers as the "suicide trip," because the girls never come back A view of the audience, neurotic and evil, comprised of every breed from the Levant to Asia, with the scum of Africa thrown m, helps to a realisation of the seamen s grim quip, but It is there that the penniless soldier and the woman of the Lost Legion of Women meet and at once-leve. Adolphe Menjou h.u» the part of the idle painter, rich to boredom, who also loves Amy, and wishes to marry her Reckless too wise, with a biting humour and a manner that hints of "^.^ff,,,; very different past, Marlene Dietrich holds we aStio™ 'and so does Gary Cooper'.^ solution of how to play the game. Ihe saz«iea are good. "The Pest" is a comedy and there is a' very novel tartoon. "ONE HEAVENLY NIGHT." Old-world romance and adventure that begins in Budapest!s gayest cabaret and then weaves Its tempestuous excitement through the richest colour of Hungarian forest countryside, serves to introduce Evelyn Laye, one of bngland's best-loved and foremost enchantress to ne screen in "One Heavenly Night," coming onVrX'to the Regent Theatre Its story is from the pen of Louis Bromfleld, distlngWhedUvelisl and is his first original screen play. Not since the days of Jenny Lind had the New York stage witnessed such a tumultuous ovation as that which greeted the, debut of fivelyn Laye sit tlie Zlozfcld.'theatre last year in Noel Coward's "Bittersweet." Despite her great London pupulitvity, lilio had oomo to America pretty much a stranger. Evelyn had reused to allow the producers to star her. But the day after the opening, her name was on everyone's lips, everyone knew of her, everyone had his conflicting views whether lie had seen her or not. Tor her screen debut, Goldwyn not only 'acquired the original story of one of America's first men of letters, prizewinner, Louis Bromfleld, but also gathered together a cast of Hollywood's most popular players.