Regent Theatre

Grey River Argus, 30 August 1937, Page 8

Regent Theatre

MATINEE TO-DAY. The final screenings of “College Holiday” and “I’d Give My Life” at the Regent Theatre, will he at today’s matinee, at 2.15, and to-night at eight .o’clock. “College Holiday” has all that it takes to make an entertaining film, whilst “I’d Give My Life” is one of the finest dramas the screen has ever achieved. “MOUNTAIN JUSTICE." TRUE TO LIFE STORY. It remained for a young girl secretary at the First National studios, Luci Ward to turn out the most powerful melodrama of the year in “Mountain Justice,” which opens tomorrow, at the Regent Theatre. Miss Ward had not before written a scenario. “Mountain Justice” is a study of life and love, combating ignorance and backwardness in a hill-country community. It co-stars Josephine Hutchinson and George Brent. Miss Hutchinson is a young mountaineer girl who has a chance to live in the outside world for a time, and returns with ambitions to improve the conditions of the native people. She is opposed by a cruel father, played by Robert Barrat. She and her young sister, played by Marcia Mae Jones, cower under the lash of their father’s whip. They live in constant fear of his terrible anger, and his threats to marry them off to the highest bidder. She lias to kill her parent to save her own life. Brent is a brilliant young attorney from New York, wlio loves and defends her. The country jurors convict her of murder, and she is sentenced to a long term. The trial scenes are startling, when misery is made a holiday for’the mob. With Guy Kiobee as a kindly old doctor, Brent, and a few others, the girl ?s smuggled out of prison and into another State, to freedom. Will Hay, whose “Boys Will Be Boby” was a phenomenal success, stars again in a Gainsborough comedy “Where There’s a Will,” coming to the Regent Theatre on Thursday. Will is one of the most versatile comedians. He is a very popular 8.8. C. identity, and the type of actor to raise a laugh whenever he pokes his ugly old face round the corner.

SATURDAY. Beautiful twenty-one-year-old Viven Leigh, who stars with Conrad Veidt in “Dark Journey,” the London Films production, coming to the Regent Theatre, was recently signed by Alexander Korda to a 150,000 contract, one of the largest salaries ever paid by a British Studio to a star at Vivien’s age. BLAKETOWN LANCE. The grand combined football dance to be held in the Blaketown Hall tonight promises, it anything, to eclipse the successful gathering held last week. Marley’s orchestra has been engaged and novelties will add to the fun.