REGENT THEATRE
“SHE COUDNT take it.” “She Couldn’t Take It” began a season at the Regent Theatre yesterday. George Rtvft, who first won the hearts of American audiences in a scries of gangster portrayals in “Scarface.” “Hush iMoney,” and “Quick Millions,” reverts to this type of characterisation in this film, rie is seen us the former rum runner Ricardi, repenting his sins in the Federal penitentiary, where he meets Walter Connolly, millionaire financier, serving a sentence for tax evasion. Connolly is impressed by the young felon’s earnestness and d.termination to go straight, so that when dentil comes to him in his prison cell his last words are a plea to Haft to act as executor of his estate and guardian of Jiis petulant family. What happens when Raft take; charge of the family fortune, despite the vigorous protests of thv tempestuous Miss Bennett, accounts lor iho vivid and amusing film winch lias won such popularity.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12865, 20 May 1936, Page 7
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