REGENT THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12901, 30 June 1936, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE

“PUBLIC NUISANCE NO. 1." Right from the animated opening scene, which takes place in a riotous night club, to the closing song, “Public Nuisance No. 1,” commencing today at the Regent Theatre, js' a ‘fast-moving’ and extravagant comedy, farcical in the extreme and f e l to music throughout. Having s4”n him thrown from the scene of /his revel's ,the audience next sees Artviur Rawlings, the morning afterwav<H fully dressed and' asleep 1 in a bed', i-t the show window of a “argje outside which an amused group or people have gathered, for he presents a ludicrous spectacle. Through th: crowd, to the rescue, cowos-Prances Travers, employed at the store, but unhappily the police step in and Ar/ thur’s Wealthy uncle, Mr. Rawlings, is.culled upon to bail his nephew oi/ir. Uncle Rawlings decides that Arthur is too unbalanced';' and must be given work to do, so hits upon the plan! to send him to the south #of Fran/co as waiter in an ; hotel which he towns Arthur, by this time completely smitten by the blonde Frances, calls on her with gifts' Teams that she has just lost her job through an jindesoretion, and together they danc’o out ot tho and sing their vtav to a fair, where Arthur buys Frances « ticket in a lottery. He bribes the woman in charge to call Frances’ ticket number and places in tho! prize envelope two tickets for a fortnight’s stay at the south of France., with most amusing results. 'Arthur Riscoe. Frances Day and Clavide Dumpier keep the fun moving at a fast pace.