AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. FRIDAY, SATURDAY, MONDAY. “THE ROSE OF TRALEE.” The story deals with the tribulations of a poor young mother and her infant daughter, separated from the father, who has become a successful 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 family, but an unscrupulous agent neatly .sidetracks all inquiries until chance, and success reunites the three once more. Fred Conyngham and Kathleen O’Regan are ihe romantic leads, and the wprlc of Talbot O’Farrell, Denier Warren, Sydney Fairbrothcr, and Dorothy Dare calls for comment in a oast of familiar names. O’Farrell particularly scores, as the kindly cafe proprietor, especially when he sines one of his familiar Irish numbers; The scenario ingeniously introduces no less than six favourite Irish ballads, one of which is engagingly sung by the small star, who also gives a spirited rendering of “Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow*-Wow.” Excellent. variety of Universal shorts including Scenic, Coloured Cartoon, “Tib Bits,” Mentone musical and vaudeville “Stranger than Fiction,” novelty.