REGENT THEATRE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20281, 24 June 1940, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE

LAST DAY: COMEDY SUCCESS, “ins GIRL FRIDAY” Cary Grant again proves himself one of the finest light actors of the screen in "His Girl Friday.” the entertaining newspaper film which will continue its successful season at the Regent Theatre to-day. He receives excellent support from the rest of the cast, including Rosalind Russell. Ralph Bellamy and Gone Lockart, who show themselves capable of making the most of tlio brilliant dialogue. Included in the supporting items is a beautiful film of ‘.lie mountain scenery (, Switzerland. —To-morrow: Dramatic Story, “The Tower of London”— One of the bloodiest and most dramatic periods in all history, the fighting fifteenth century, will reach the screen for the first time when Universal's ‘Flower of London” opens at the Regent Theatre to-morrow. A year in the making, the new drama offers Basil Rathbono in perhaps his •strongest rote as the diabolic Richard HI. infamous "Crookback" King, and includes some of Hollywood's ablest dramatic players in its cast of hundreds. Boris Karloff of “Frankenstein” and other horror roles also has a powerful part as Richard’s ally, the fearsome executioner of the Tower. lan Hunter is seen as Edward IV and Barbara O'Neil follow:- her hit performance in “When To-morrow Comes” wst’i the role of Edward's wife, Elizabeth. Nan Grey and John Sutton portray the romantic leads, and Vincent Price, Leo G. Carroll. Lionel Belmore, Miles Mander, Rose Hobart, Ralph Forbes, ' Frances Robinson, Ernest Cossart, G. P. Huntley, Donnie Dunagan, and Ronald Sinclair are other principals. Rowland V. Leo and Robert N. Lee, producer-director end writer respectively, collaborated in filming a story which -parallels closely actual and gory historical records. They chose the fifteenth century as a background because it was a time of virile action and constant warfare, when both romance and lighting were carried on within the shadow of the scaffold or the border of the battlefield. The story centres around the life of Richard, whose ambitions and treachery lead him to destroy five who stand between him and the Throne. Among his victims are the -‘two little princes in the Tower,”