REGENT THEATRE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 48, Issue 2886, 29 March 1939, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE

GRACE MOORE FINALE DOUBLE PROGRAMME COMING TO-MORROW AND FRIDAY

Screening finally at the Regent tonight is Grace Moore in “I’ll Take Romance,” with an outstanding supporting programme. Grace Moore, who will not be denied as queen of the motion picture realm of song, contrives with the amazing Columbia Studios to achieve the most entertain>ing musical picture to date. Musically superior even to “One Night Of Love,” Miss Moore’s new picture tells a fast, humorous story that sparkles with gay situations and brilliant dialogue. The whimsical and flippant story has been engagingly directed by Edward H. ’Griffith, offering a sturdy framework for the musical talents of the golden-voiced star. “I’ll Take Romance” is a veritable whirl of melody. In several memorable scenes taken from the world’s great operas, Miss Moore sings the Drinking Song from “Traviata,” the Gavotte from “Manon,” the quintet and finale of the third act of “Martha” and finally, as a glorious climax, the duet from '“Madame Butterfly.”

A young’ writer goes to Mexico in search of romance and finds more of .

it than he expects in “Tropic Holiday,” Paramount’s song-studded carnival, which opens to-morrow at the Regent Theatre. Ray Milland is the adventure-seeking writer, while Dorothy Lamour is the girl who makes him forget that any part of the world still exists north of the Rio Gtande. Others with important parts in the rhumba rpaced story include Bob Burns, Martha Raye and Binnie

Barnes. Six new songs have been written especially for the picture by Augustin Lara, the “Irving Berlin of Mexico.” Among’ them are “The Lanip on the Corner,” “Tropic Night,” “To-night Will Live,” and “My First Love.”

“Extortion,” Columbia’s new mystery drama set on a college campus, also screens to-morrow and Friday. The film, directed by Lambert Hillyer, features such well known Hollywood players as Scott Colton, Mary Russell, Gene Morgan, Arthur* Loft, Thurston Hall, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ann Doran and others.