AMUSEMENTS
REGENT THEATRE. TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY. “CHECKERS.” Ifc’e “Checkers” Jane Withers now! The girl who has just been voted one of the six most popular stars of today wears the proudest racing silks on the trapk in “Checkers/’’, her latest Twentieth Century-Fox , showing to-night at the Regent Theatre. Jane’s, at her uproarious best, and what a thoroughbred she is, even when Lady Luck forget to act like a lady. Stuart Erwin and Una Merkel are featured in.romantic roles in the film. As the slickest horse-trader who has ever got stung } Stuart lias been courti ing Una for seven years. She disapproves of Stu’s motto: “Love me, love my horse,” for Una is a, girl who refuses to fill her . hope; chest with horse blankets. The horse that stands in the way of Stu’s romance in the recent days of his sit-down courtship is “Bum Skies,” a racing filly whose flashing hoofs at the end of the film give the girl a new light on the Erwin motto. Jane,, Stu and “Blue Skies” wander around to the track at the opening of the story. The horse with Jane riding, beats the star of another owner’s stable. Enraged this sportsman fires Marvin Stephens, his jockey, who'joins force s with Jane and Co.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1938, Page 3
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