REGEMT THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12887, 13 June 1936, Page 7

REGEMT THEATRE

“QUEEN OF HEARTS.” Song, ser. l .nnont and comedy ; * r< - daitly blended m “Queen oi Heart 1 ’ Grade Fields’ latest film. which is now showing at the Regent Theatre. An Associated Talking Pictures production, -‘Queen of Hearts” is ideal entertainment, with that mass appeal winch has characterised all tho taking pictur..? :n winch Gracie Fields has appeared. From start to finish thcue :s not a dull moment and the comedy is of the rollicking variety, which Monty Banks handles with unusual Hair, lie has d.recl ci

••Queen of 11: arts’’ in a way that, perhaps, no other director could emulate. He has m'adc the most of evert situation, and—an unusual feature in musical films—ho has r-nsured th:u the plot is not merely a peg o:i winch

to hang the musical score and songs Gr’acie Fields’ performance in “Look Up and Laugh,” still remembered with relish by the majority of Gisbornp illmgoers, hut this she has easily eclipsed in “Queen of Hearts,” which is undoubtedly her most successful production. Tile . n(dross displays her usual vivacity, and charae-ti.’i-ic ease in emerging, not without stress, from difficult situations. Yesterday’s audiences were in fits <H laughter at her antics, sometimes almost in tears, and it was a tribute to her acting tlmt the few moments m sentiment escaped sentimentality.