ST. JAMES THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1937, Page 14

ST. JAMES THEATRE.

"Laughing Irish Eyes."

Singing is not only Phil Regan s artistic vocation, but his hobby as well. He began it when he was a boy. He was the leading tenor of his high school Glee Club. When hardly out of his teens his public singing in New York City launched him on a national broadcasting career, which made his voice known and loved by millions. He was still a young man when Hollywood snatched him from the air channels to put his voice into singing screen roles. He is still such a music-minded young Irishman that he recently terminated a long-term screen contract because he felt he could obtain more and better singing roles, free-lancing. "Laughing Irish Eyes," starring Regan with a new hit Irish comedian, Walter C. Kelly, vaudeville veteran, and Evelyn Knapp, will present golden-voiced Phil in the first of his enlarged singing screen roles at the St. James Theatre tomorrow. In the idyllic setting of Ireland's green hills and lovely country lanes, Regan is presented as Em athletic young blacksmith who vocalises as he pounds his anvil. Kelly, American prize-fight promoter, and his daughter, pick Regan for their choice—but both for different reasons. Such old Irish favourites, seldom heard on the screen, as Londondery Air," "Bless You Darlm' Mother," and "All My Life,' not forgetting the theme song. "Laughing Irish Eyes" are sung by Regan, . and poured into the heart of the spirited and adorable Irish lass. Joseph Santley himself an Irishman and former musical comedy song and' dance star, who, in his first three years in Hollywood has rapidly risen to top _ ranJC. directed "Laughing Irish Eyes.