REGENT THEATRE
To day at 2 p.m. and this evening at 8 Irene Dunne, Fred. Astaire and Ginger Rogers in “Roberta’’ will be presented for the last time. Those inimitable comedians, Walter C. Kelly and Andy Clyde, are happily cast in “McFadden’s Flats,” the robust and colourful comedy introduced on Thursday and Friday evenings and Friday afternoon. Kelly is in his element as the rough-voiced but softhearted Irishman, who rises from bricklaying to wealth. A capital foil to him is Andy Clyde as a parsimonious Scotchman. The two neighbours quarrel continuously, but under their rough exteriors are firm friends. The two cronies at last are brought together by a romance between the children. The scene in which McFadden and the millionaire from Chicago discover that they were bricklayers together in their youth, and start a brick-laying contest against each other with ten books in the library, had the audience almost in hysterics. Jane Darwell makes a motherly Mrs McFadden, and the clever manner in which mother and daughter twist the domineering McFadden round their little fingers is one of the highlights of the film. A second feature subject on the new programme is “Legong,” and exquisite romance of the beautiful isle of Baji, West Indies, produced by an all-native cast.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume VLI, Issue 3421, 18 December 1935, Page 5
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210REGENT THEATRE Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume VLI, Issue 3421, 18 December 1935, Page 5
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