Regent Theatre

Grey River Argus, 5 December 1938, Page 12

Regent Theatre

“MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS” Rubbling with the humour and naturalness that made the original Kate Douglas Wiggin story one of the bestsellers the film version of “Mother Carey’s Chickens” opens at the Regent to-day (Monday). The film deals with the interesting careers of the Careys. The head of the family, a naval officer dies during the SpanishAmerican war. The wife and four children, left penniless save for j. scanty pension, try to carry on as their father would have wished, ’through the efforts of a young school teacher who is in love with the older daughter the Careys leave their tenement and take over an old, tumbledown house in the country. They remodel it as a teachers’ boarding hioUse. Complications arise as they complete the task. The climax is the family’s unique method of dispossessing an unpleasant couple who claim their house. Anne Ruby Keeler,? as the) daughters, are cast romantically opposite Frank Albertson and James Ellison, respectively. Fay Bainter portrays the sympathetic mother. Jackie Moran and Donnie Dunagan as the other two “chickens,” Ralph Morgan as the ill-fated navy captain-father, Walter Brennan a s a typical New England storekeeper and Phyllis. Kennedy, Margaret Hamilton, George Irving and other well known players contribute to the film’s realism. First appearing in 1910. “Mother Carey’s Chickens” proved one of the most popular stories ever written. The locales of the story, especially the ramshackle colonial home where the final half of the action takes place, have been . faithfully reproduced on the screen. Pandro S. Berman was in charge of production with S. K. Lauren and Gertrude Purcell translating the Wiggin novel to the screen. Rowland V. Lee directed.

FILM FICTION THAT SOON BE FACT. In the Gaumont-British studios lies a giant Trans-Atlantic flying boat used in the climax of the new thriller "Non-Stop New York,” directed by Robert Stevenson, with Anna Lee, John Loder, Francis L. Sullivan and Desmond Tester heading the cast.

PENEGUINS HIS HOBBY t it - _ William Hopper, son of Hedda an;l the late De Wolf Hopper, who is starting his screen career in Warner Bros.’ “Public Wedding” which will open on Thursday at the Regent Theatre, collects penguins, as a hobby

—china birds, not the feathered variety. ST. PAUL’S METHODIST CHURCH. The long and t eagerly-awaited opening of the hew Methodist Sunday School and Hall, will take place on Wednesday, December 7, at 7.30 p.m. and will take the form of a Thanksgiving Service and Conversazione. A very ■attractive programme has been arranged. The new school is a truly magnificent building and one of which the citizens of Greymouth may well be proud. In an enterprise of this nature a greal deal of work must be put in before the objective can become an accomplished fact and the officials of the church are to be congratulated on their efforts. It s hoped that the new hall will be filled to capacity on? Wednesday.

FAREWELL . SMOKE CONCERT. Messrs H. Drummond and W. Ashby, who will leave shortly for England, are to be tendered a farewell smoke concert by the Greymouth Aero Club this evening. Tickets are available at the Club Rooms, up till 5 p.m.