REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1932, Page 3

REGENT THEATRE.

Perhaps no better tribute could be paid to the manner in which George Arllss manages to "live" tho different roles he portrays on the screen than the fact that he appears almost as a new personality in "Tho Millionaire," the picture now showing at the Kegent lheatre. In which for the first time the great actor is seen in the "talkies" in modern dress. By :the perfection of his art Arllss is able to make his audience share every emotion of tho story, the whimsical touches with which he finishes off a perfectly Individualistic performance, completing tho transformation of George Arliss, the actor, into James Alden, a health-shaken millionaire. Introduced as a man with apparently ono foot in the grave, his self-acquired riches a burden rather than a means of pleasure, Alden yields to tho demands of his doctor and the entreaties of his wife and daughter, and takes a rest. Unknown to the others, however, he makes the rest a change of work, and secretly starts to build up a business as a garage proprietor. The concern is threatened with bankruptcy as the result of misrepresentation on the part of the former owner, but eventually Alden succeeds. A love interest is supplied by Alden's partner in the garage business and his daughter. Florence Arliss, the wife of the star, is also his wife in the picture, as she was in "Disraeli," and the other players include David Manners, Evalyn Knapp, and Noah Beery. There is a strong supporting programme.