MIRTH AND MUSIC

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 50, Issue 3057, 2 April 1941, Page 5

MIRTH AND MUSIC

“BOYS FROM SYRACUSE”

DOUBLE FEATURE NEXT WESTERN AND MYSTERY “The Boys From Syracuse”. shows finally to-night at the Regent Theatre. “When the Daltons Rode,” Universal’s saga of frontier America, in the days of the celebrated Dalton gang, comes to the Regent Theatre next Thursday and Friday with Randolph Scott and Kay Francis heading a distinguished cast. Based on the exciting book of the same name, the film traces the careers of the Dalton boys as ranch owners who are led into spectacular crime by the persecutions of a land, company.

The story reaches a climax with the historical raid on Coffeyville, 1892, when the gang was destroyed while staging the old West’s only double bank robbery.

The four Daltons are portrayed by Brian Donlevy, Broderick Crawford, Stuart Erwin and Frank Albertson, while Andy Devine has what has been described as one of his best roles as the Dalton’s girl-chasing ranch hand who joins the gang in their maraudings.

“Private Detective,” Warner Bros.’ thrilling melodrama, will also show at the Regent Theatre on Thursday and Friday with Jane Wyman, Dick Foran and Maxie “Adonis” Rosenbloom in the starring roles. Returning to the type of detective role she portrayed in “Torchy Plays with Dynamite,” Jane Wyman uses all her ingenuity to . prevent boy friend, Dick Foran, from arresting the wrong man in the picture’s puzzling murder mystery.

Rosenbloom contributes his usual share 4 of laughs as Foran’s assistant and demonstrates his fighting ability when he . and his boss rescue Miss Wyman after she has been kidnapped by the murder gang.

Other familiar faces in the cast include Morgan Conway, John Eldredge, Joe 'Crehan, William . Davidson, Vera Lewis, Stelmar Jackson, Earl Dwire and. little Henry Blair.