REGENT THEATRE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2668, 10 September 1937, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE

“ROSE MARIE” COMING

A FOUR-NIGHT SESSION

JEANETTE MacDONALD—EDDY.

Screening finally at the Regent tonight is “Criminal Lawyer,” starring Guy Kibbee, May Robson and Sybil Jason.

No matter how much you liked “Naughty Marietta,” that musical sensation of 1935, you’re sure to like “Rose Marie” even more. Again costarring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, this Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production will screen at the Regent Theatre for four nights, commencing to-morrow.

Like its forerunner, “Rose Marie” was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and produced by Hunt Stromberg, who again combined their talents to give this picture one of the finest productions to come out of Hollywood in a ' long time. Replete with haunting music, a tender story, magnificent photography and backgrounds, it is truly the film sensation of the year. Miss MacDonald plays the name role, an opera star who travels disguised into the wilds in search of her dissolute brother, a criminal from justice.

Nelson Eddy portrays Sergeant Bruce, as fine a “Mountie” as ever rode a horse. Assigned to bring the criminal to justice, there is the thrust of personal duty when these two meet and fall in love. With all its outdoor scenes made against natural backgrounds of surpassing beauty in the mountain lake country of the Sierra Nevadas, “Rose Marie” is a pictorial work of art.

The musical numbers are brilliantly staged and brilliantly sung. One -of them, the Totem Pole sequence, is peopled by more . than a thousand dancers. Spectacular in its giant effects it will go on record as one of the most thrilling scenes ever brought to the screen. A strong support cast includes James Stewart, Reginald Owen, Allan Jones, George Regas, Robert Greig, Una O’Connor and Lucien Littlefield.