AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. to-night, finally. “FORTY NAUGHTY GIRLS.” A baffling murder in a big ..Broadway theatre, coloured with blackmailing plots and complicated with an embarrassing wealth of..suspects and.motives, forms the basis of “Forty Naughty Girls,” current thriller at the Regent Theatre, featuring, James Gleason and Zasu Pitts in the roles of those noted detectives, Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegarde Withers. With the. crooked press agent- of the sfiqw as the victim of the killing, which, takes place backstage during performance, i the story quickly becomes involved , witiilS dozen possible sqspects, all qf whom had plenty of reason to,have committed the crime. The two sleuths "have their hands full trying to' solve the riddle. A second murder, and a spinechilling search for the, killer through the dim recesses of. the theatre basement add to the thrills of the RKO Radio offering, which marks Gleason’s sixth portrayal of the Inspector role and Aliss Pitts’ second playing of the Hildegarde part. Marjorie Lord, George Shelley, Joan Woodbury, Edward Marr, Frank AT. Thomas, Tom Kennedy,. Alden Chase and Alan Edwards are in the supporting cast.

SATURDAY—MATINEE A EVENING “THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR.” Warner Bros, ‘magnificent drama “The Story of‘Louis Pasteur” has its retairn to If’bln;ika, scfCening at i the fihgenf Theatre 5 ' to-morrow. Mr Paul Muni was awarded the coveted' “Ajcadeniy Award” for this meritorious .performance in this outstanding picture which also 'stars' Anita Louise, Porter Hall, Akin Tamiroff, Walter Kingsford Josephine Hutchison, Donald Woods, Henry O’Neill, Dickie Aloore, and Fritz Leiber. .There have been great moments on.the screen—but none to surpass that electric second when this champion of humanity had to decide which was dearer to hi s hearth—the fate of his own daughter, or that of unborn generations. The clioice he. made was like every other moment of his life—heroic! And' here'is that life re-lived in all the drama of its fearless combat with the fearful enemies, of man—in a picture that “stands’Among the significant works of the screen.”