REGENT THEATRE,

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 16, 19 July 1939, Page 6

REGENT THEATRE,

New Type of Comedy

"Claudette Colbert, as an American fortune-hunter stalking her prey in international society, Don Ameche, as a taxi-driver who unexpectedly changes her grandiose plans, and Francis Lederer, as a handsome and gold-dripping Paris playboy—these are the romantic leads m "Midnight," Paramount's gay new comedy, which opens to morrow at the Regent Theatre. Miss Colbert who is the screen's chief expert in the field of sophisticated and brittle comedy, has a role tailored especially lor her measurements. She plays "Eve Peabody," a third-rate dancer with nrst-rate ambitions, who in one dazzling evening meets and falls in love with a taxi-driver, crashes an exclusive party with a pawn ticket as her admission card, sweeps the town's playboy off his feet, and turns into a "countess" to get along better in a snobbish world. "Eve's" campaign to win herself a wealthy husband takes a hopeful turn when a Paris business man, John Barrymore, whom she meets at the party, enlists her aid in restoring domestic happiness to his badly-shaken home. His wife, Mary Astor, is engaged in a flirtation with a handsome playboy. Lederer. If Miss Colbert will make a play for Lederer Barrymore will foot the bills. The arrangement promises to work out well for both sides, for Miss Colbert stands to win the sort of husband she wants, while Barrymore hopes to get back his wife's affections. But the greater Miss Colbert's success the more she wonders why she ran away from the cab-driver, Ameche, who made such a dent in her heart. Although her daring and cleverness enable her to out-wit the "doubting Thomases" who challenge her "title" and her motives, she realises she has been too successful when Lederer proposes to her. It is now up to Ameche, who arrives as the "countess's" "count" at a Versailles house j party, to straighten things out in an I uproarious climax.

Appointment of members of the following Bobby Calf Pool Committees is notified in a supplement to the Gazette issued last night:—Bunnythorpe, Whakarongo. Colyton-Te Arakura, Raglan. Kairanga, Apiti-Rangi-wahia, Kimbolton-Kiwitea, MokoiaWhakamana. Halcombe-Makmo. Ash-hurst-Pohangina, Linton-Aokautere. Dannevirke, Gisborne, and East Coast, and Ngakuru. New bobby call marketing pool areas have been declared at Makino-Halcombe and Woodville.