REGENT THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12902, 1 July 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,” now showing at the'Regent' Theatre, is a last-moving and extravagant comedy, farpicM in the extreme and set to music through out. ' Having seen him thrown from the.; scene of his revels, the audience next sees Arthur Rawlings, the morn iri'g afterwards, fully dressed and •Uslcep in a bod in the show window ol; a largo store, outside which an auius. eel group of people have gathered, for lie presents a ludicrous spectacle. Through ' the crowd, to the rescue, conics' Frances Travers, employee at the store, but unhappily the police step "in arid Arthur’s wealthy uncle, Mr. Rawlings, is called upon to bail his 'nephew out. Uncle Rawlings de:cities- that Arthur is too unbalanced, uiid must he given work to do, so hits upon tho plan to send him to the south of Franco as waiter in an hotel which ho owns. Arthur, by this time completely smitten by the blonde Frances, calls on her wit}] gifts, learns that she has just lost her job through an indeserstion, and together they' dance out of the store and sing their way to a fair, where Arthur buys Frances a ticket in a lottery. He bribes the woman in charge to call Frances’ ticket number and places in the prize envelope two tickets for a fortnight’s stay at the, south of France, Ayilh', most amusing results. Arthur Riscoe, Frances Day and Claude Dumpier keep tho fun moving at a fast'pace., . ..