AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE,

TO-NIGHT AND FRIDAY. “ON AGAIN—OFF AGAIN.”

Dealing in side—splitting fashion witn the qua riels of a team of business partners, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsoy bring another of their hysterical RKO Radio offerings to the screen in “On Again—Off Again.” In the insi seven years the two funsters have ap-

peared in nineteen co-starring veliic es. a,nd the new picture, hailed as their most uproarious to date, is their men tieth. Their last three films have satirised Egyptian archaeologists, the pioneers of ’l9 and the profession’ll rainmaking gentry. In “On Aga.'n—o:f Again” the spotlight of mirth is turned on big business. There are three leading ladies in the new film—. Mari lie Lord, the Broadway Renutv, Patricia Wilder, and Esther Muir who lia.s the role of Wooisey’s spouse. Ru sill F'e 1 s. Paul Harve” fleovge Meeker. I)n e

Dreyer and Herman Ruhv wrote the sor-r numbers. “One IL'iipy Family’’ and “Thanks To You.” The elaborate settings include a huge siiife of nflWs of (he “partners. ’* and 'Wholsev’s palatial home, agaiiv-f which 'two hee 1 -- grounds most of the fast and furious action takes place.