AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT tHEATHE. TO-NIGHT finally. (; /•••.. “RENO.” With Richard Dix and Gail Patrici playing the romantic leaas ) RKO 11a dio’s ‘•Reno’’ features a notable sup porting east including Anita Louise Paul Cavanagh, Lam a Hope Crews Louis Jean Hevdt and Hobart Cava naugli. The story of “Reno”, concern a young lawyer who settles in the Ne . .yada city in 1,005. When the town ( the ■ a mining cojiynunity, faces extinctio: I following the collapse of the industry the attorney takes advantage of a littl known ntate law liberalising divorce yc qu moments. r Before long he bring prosperity’ to himself and to the cit which becomes known as ' the diVorc capital of the ■ world. But the very di voice system of which lie is part break up his own home, and when, in late years, he sees his daughter making th same mistake lie did as a young man he '■frames' hef with a crooked roulett wheel to steer her away from the di voree courts. Associate shorts in elude Patlie News! Fox Australasia] News, “Irish Isle” travel “Sagebrusl Serenade” musical. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. j “SEVENTEEN” AND “LAW OF THI j PAMPAS.’’ The story of a young man who suffer: all the trials and tribulations of a grea‘l love only to find that at seventeen h( is not yet a mail is told in,-Paramount’! screen adaptation of Booth'Tarkingtonh famous classic, “Seventeen.” Witt Jackie Coo]ier, in the cast are Betty Field Otto Kruger, and Ann Shoemaker. Besides Boyd and Miss Dunjv, the -cast- of Paramount’s “Law of the Pampas” includes Russell Hayden, Sidney Toler, Sidney Blackmer and the King’s Men, popular radio quartet. The story concerns the adventures of the. “Bar 200” foreman when he goes to Argentina to deliver a herd of prize cattle ’and runs into a series of mysterious robberies and killings. ! ; j