REGENT THEATRE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2665, 3 September 1937, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE

THE NEW PROGRAMME

DARING DRAMA OF THE JUNGLE

MYSTERY ON THE HIGH SEAS. The final screening at the Regent to-night is the programme “Three Married Men, 0 with an all-star cast, and John Halliday in “Hollywood Boulevard.”

There is good strong screen fare on the bill at the Regent Theatre tomorrow and Monday, with all the ingredients that combine for popularity. “His Brother’s Wife,” produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, brings Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor to the screen in a spectacular romance. That alone is of striking significance. Jean Hersholt is featured as a veteran explorer and adventurer in the far and dangerous places of the tropical jungle. Joseph Calleia scores in another' of his suave bad-man roles. The daring story of a young scientist who ventures into the jungle to find the cure for a dreaded malady and returns to the realisation that the woman he loves is his brother’s wife, provides a dramatic vehicle for these distinguished stars.

Thirteen souls and a black cat aboard an all-fated ship on a thrill surging sea of mystery. This in a nut-shell is the story of “The Mystery of the Mary Celeste,” which also comes to the Regent to-morrow and Monday. Super-thrilling because it is founded on fact, this amazing screen solution of the world’s greatest unsolved mystery of the seas tells of the amazing series of misadventures that befell the “Mary Celeste” which sailed from New York, with a cargo of alcohol, a shanghaied crew of desperadoes, a bullying first mate, a captain and his newly-wed charming young wife, on a honeymoon cruise. Fourteen days later the vessel was found ghosting mysteriously towards Gibraltar, with everything in shipshape order, but not a singleumember of the crew on board.