FAMOUS COMEDY
MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER PROGRAMME AT REGENT) COMEDY ROCKS NEW YORK A gala feast of fun will be served up by the Regent which will show “The Man Who Came To Dinner,” on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan and Monty Woolley top the cast of Warned Bros.’ film version of the famous stage comedy which recently completed a two-year engagement on Broadway. Jimmy Durante, Billie Burke, Reginald Gardiner, George Barbier, Richard Travis and Elisabeth Fraser head the featured cast. “The Man Who Came To Dinner,’’ which flowed from the pens of those versatile playwirghts, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, has been adapted, for the screen by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein, two of Hollyood’s top comedy writers. Advance reports have it that the screen version of the comedy is even more riotously funny than the stage play which rocked Broadway for two years. FINALLY TO-NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE “Glamour Boy” and “Torpedo Boat?’ will show finally* to-night at the Regent Theatre.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3277, 18 June 1943, Page 5
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168FAMOUS COMEDY Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3277, 18 June 1943, Page 5
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