AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE, TO-NIGHT? TO-NIGHT! “EVERYBODY DANCE” Cicely Courtneidge returns to tilie ’ screen at the Regent Iheatie in great form. Her latest comedy is from Gau- ' mont-British, “Everybody Dance/' and is full of scintillating wit, hilarious Y ;■ « 3 ■ sequences, and bright tuneful meiody, j As “Lady Kate,” a night club queen, • Cicely finds herself saddled with two ( 1 American children who are unaware , of her notoriety in" London circles, fc’ho 3 poses as a lady-farmer of impeccable t ! morals, arid is much happier.by the presence of “Wilbur,” ErnestTriiejc,j who , 1 has been sent to take, the children back , home. Action is last and furious until 1 the climax when Lady Kate is ordered by an officious local J .i*. ~o gi,e up the children and return whence she came. , But an unexpected'twist of fortune re- . verse the tables, and Kate and Wilbur j find happiness after all. FRIDAY, SATURDAY, MONDAY. "7HE ROSE OF, TRALEE.” The story deals with the tribulations of a pour'young mother and her infant daughter, separated from the father, who has became.a successful cropper jin America, Turned out.by her hard-heart- . ed landlady, the. mother and daughter are befriended by an Irish cafe .proprietor and his quaint old landlady. The, , .father .comes.home to seek his fainily, but an unscrupulous agent neatly .sidetracks all inquiries until chance., and success reunites the three once more. Fred Conyugham ay.d Kathleen O’Regan ar« the romantic leads, and the work of Talbot O’Farrell, Denier Warren, Sydney Fairbrothcr, and Dorothy Dare calls for comment in a east of familiar names. O’Farrell particularly scores, as the kindly cafe proprietor, especially when lie sings one of his fam- , iliar Irish numbers. The scenario ineen- | iously introduces no loss than six fav-ourite-Irish ballads, oim c-f, which; is engagingly sung'by the sinal] star; who also gives- a* spirited rendering of “Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bov*Wow.” in n | i iiibin mm mi iiimhi & ...