REGENT THEATRE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2666, 6 September 1937, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE

DOUBLE BILL FINALE MIRIAM HOPKINS COMING A COMEDY OF THE STAGE. Screening finally at the Regent Theatre to-night is the great double bill “His Brother’s AVife,” starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, and “The Mystery of the Marie Celeste,” with Bela Lugosi and Shirley Grey. Miriam Hopkins plays the starring role in London Films’ “Men Are Not Gods” which comes to the Regent Theatre to-morrow and AVednesday. She is seen as Ann AVilliams, secretary to the most famous dramatic critic in London. It is Ann’s falsely reported criticism of the “Othello” first night that makes a young actor, Edmond Davey, the name part, famous overnight. Ann, who loses her job for distorting the criticism, goes to see the actor from the gallery and becomes infatuated with him. She gets to know him well, but gives him up when Edmond’s wife begs her to do so. In a thrilling and dramatic climax Ann is the means of stopping Edmond from killing his wife while they are appearing together on the stage. There is a strong cast supporting Miriam Hopkins which includes Gertrude Lawrence, Sebastian Shaw, A. E. Mathews, Lawrence Grossmith and Rex Harrison.