Regent Theatre

Grey River Argus, 19 May 1938, Page 12

Regent Theatre

“ONE MILE FROM HEAVEN." The strangest case that ever rocked a hall of justice and the most human story of the year, "One Mile From Heaven,” Twentieth CenturyFox picture, opens to-day at the Regent Theatre. Claire Trevor, Sally Blane, Douglas Fowley, Fredi Washington, and Bill Robison are the featured players. Lou Breslow and John Patrick were responsible for the unusually fine screen play based . upon the stories of Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Robin Harris and Alfred Golden. Sol. M. Wurtzel, executive producer, was in charge. It is a human, exciting story of two mothers fighting desperately for the same child. The one brought the little girl into the world but thought her dead in a fateful car crash, and, after several years, found her hopes renewed. The other nursed ed the child back to health, murtured and guarded her, and came to love her as her own. In this situation is a girl reporter, assigned to the biggest news scoop of the year, yet to do so would blast the lives of three innocent people. The climax leaves one breathless. Claire Trevor is the reporter, with Sally Blane and Fredi Washington the mother; lighting for the same child. Douglas Fowley injects the villainy with his consistent portrayal of the ex-convict extortionist. Skilfully directed by Allan Dwan, “One Mile From Heaven” is human, vibrant, dramatic, aitd thoroughly entertaining.

“WESTERN GOLD.” Radio’s greatest singing cowboy, Smith Ballew, becomes Harold Bell Wright’s most thrilling hero in the role of a fighting, singing, loving; son of the plains who blazes a trail tor gold-laden stage-coaches, thundering through treacherous mountain passes that bristle with the guns' of raiding desperadoes and chanting unforgettable cowboy ballads to the tune| of whinning bullets in “Western I Gold,” a Twentieth Century-Fox re-| lease which opens to-day at the Repent Theatre. Ordered by President Lincoln to thwart desperadoes whose interruption of gold shipments threatens financial disaster, Ballew heads at once for Red Bluff, where the bandits have concentrated. The most hardbitten veterans of the trail have bee terrorised by ‘•the bandits, and special agent stirs up excitement bv offering to drive the next goiu coach through. Crackling adventure is

tempered, by the romance between the newcomer and the daughter of the express agent, played by Heather] Angel. Ballew succeeds in rounding! up the outlaws, although not before a pitched battle between the citizens] and the robbers. “DEAD END.” Wendy Barrie has discovered a cousin she didn’t know she had. He| is Brian Aherne, who comes to the Regent on Saturday in Samuel Gold-] ! wyn’s “Dead End,” Aherne is her cousin by marriage. The actress had never met Aherne. But she planned Io meet him upon his return to Hollywood. “I’m going to break the news to him,” she said. “Im usually not much on relationship but thr, is different.” BAZAAR AT COBDEN. The Mission Circle of the Church of England will hold a bazaar in York Hall, Cobden, on Saturday afternoon. There will be well stocked, stalls for produce, sewing, cooking and sweets The bran tub will be well filled with toys, and good will be awarded for the baby sh ° ■ Two prizes are to be given lor he best decorated tables, while coal ca - inets will he the prizes for the na.l driving competition rl ie aim b give good practical articles at nar gain prices.