“IRENE”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 50, Issue 3055, 28 March 1941, Page 5

“IRENE”

NOTED MUSICAL COMEDY

COMING TO THE RERENT

DOUBLE FEATURE TO-NIGHT

“Irene,” one of the most popular musical comedies of all time, comes to the Regent Theatre on Saturday and Monday in RKO Radio’s film version with the lovely British star, Anna Neagle, in the title-role and Ray" Milland co-starred as a New York playboy who falls in love with the peppery heroine. Running for almost two years on Broadway, and having half a dozen road companies covering the nation at the time it made its appearance, “Irene” scored an unqualified hit with audiences the country over, and the picture promises to be an even greater success. The four tunes,that were featured on the stage, “Alice Blue Gown,” “Castle of Dreams,” “Irene,” and “There’s Something in the Air,” are stressed in the picture, and a brand new number by the same composers, “You’ve Got Me Out On a Limp,” is also woven into the offering. The plot deals with the adventures of a fiery little Irish girl, who, sponsored by a pair of wealthy young society men, quits her salesgirl job to become a model at Madame Lucy’s, a fashionable gown, shop in which the young men own stock. Her modelling of a gown of her mother’s at an elaborate social affair attracts much attention and leads to her being established in a luxurious an Irish heiress ,although her real job is to boost Madame Lucy’s gowns. The scheme is a great success for the shop, but the two young men, both of them by now more or less in love with the girl, are worried over the possible outcome. And when the columnists finally get hold of the truth and expose the “heiress,” a series of hilarlbus complications bring about her engagement to one of the young men and her marriage to the other until matters are finally straightened out. Such favourites as Roland Young, May Robson, Billie Burke, Arthur Treacher, Isabel Jewell, Marsha Hunt and Doris Nolan also have featured roles in “Irene.”

“ Swiss Family Robinson,” and “The Cisco Kid and The Lady,” show finally to-night at the Regent Theatre.