Regent Theatre

Grey River Argus, 10 August 1937, Page 2

Regent Theatre

“READY, WILLING. AND ABLE.” “Ready, Willing, and Able,” a com"edy with music made by Warner Bros, from the Richard Macaulay story of the same name that ran in a magazine last year, will be presented as the feature attraction of the Regent Theatre to-day. Co-starred are the twinkling-toed Ruby Keeler, and the famous young eccentric dancer, Lee Dixon. The songs are by Johnny Mercer and Richards Whiting, and one especially—“ Too Marvellous for Words”—promises to be a countrywide hit. The delightful Louise Fazenda has an eccentric role well fitted to her talents as a comedienne and torch singer. Winifred Shaw is cast as a British musical comedy star. Other notables in the cast are Allen Jenkins. Carol Hughes, Hugh O’Connell, Teddy Hart, Addison Richards, Ross Alexander, Shaw and Lee, the “piano-movers” from vaudeville, E. E. Clive and Jane Wyman. Something altogether new in the way of a “number” is a typewriter 30 feet high, on the keys of which dancing girls spell out a love letter dictated to them bj Alexander. The girls were directed by Bobby Connelly. ■ The story part of the picture was guided by Ray Enright. “BANJO ON MY KNEE.” Prominent in the cast of the Twentieth Century-Fox drama with music, “Banjo on My Knee,” which opens on Thursday at the Regent Theatre, is Helen Westley, who portrays the role of a pipe-smoking, bibulous old crone. One of the founders of the New York Theatre Guild, Miss Westley played important roles in more than 40 Guild productions. She was brought to Hollywood by Darryl F. Zanuck, for Twentieth Century-Fox, and has appeared in many pictures. Co-starred are Miss Stanwyck and Joel' McCrea, with a notable supporting cast. “TRAIL DUST.” Gwynne Shipman, 19-year-old I

niece of Nell Shipman, star of silent pictures, makes her screen debut ir featured roles as the feminine lead in Paramount’s “Trail Dust,” lastesl “Hopalong Cassidy” adventure featuring William Boyd, Jimmy Ellison, and George Hayes, which begins or Saturday at the Regent Theatre. “ALONG CAME LOVE.” Irene Hervey and Charles Starreli are teamed for the second time in Paramount’s “Along Came Love,” the romance of a salesgirl and a theatre doorman, which will be the second feature on Saturday at the Regent Theatre. They appeared together for the first time three years ago in “Three On a Honeymoon.”