IN TECHNICOLOUR

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3283, 2 July 1943, Page 5

IN TECHNICOLOUR

“REAP THE WILD WIND” PROGRAMME AT REGENT BREATH-TAKING ADVENTURE Cecil B. DeMille reached into & Broadway theatre to secure Raymond Massey for < of the best roles of the actor’s scr.wn career in the Paramount Tvchnicolour sea saga. “Read the Wild Wind.” which! will show at the Regent Theatre Saturday and Monday.

Starring wit?'. Cornell in The New York production of George about the part, which DeMille considemma.” Massey left for Hollywood hnmediately after the play closed to step into the character of King Cutler. villain extraordinary, in the De-

Mme picture. The producer used the long-distance telephone to reach Massey backstage in the New York theatre and tell him about bhe part .w’hich DeMille considers one of the best screen opportunities he has offered an actor in several years.

A dominant figure in “ Reap the M ild Wind.” King Cutler is the “boss” of Key West, Florida, in the 1840’s, and the leader of an organisation of piratical ship-wreckers—a keen, cruel, elegant swashbuckler, part Machiavelli and part Sir Henry Morgan. His conversation with Massey about this part marked the second time in a week that DeMille had used the transcontinental telephone to sign up an actor for the picture. It was in New York also that he reached Walter Hampden, who plays Coxmodore Devereaux, Charleston gentleman and owner of a line of sailing ships in “Reap the Wild Wind.” Others in the cast are Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Robert Preston and Lynne Overman. Story of America’s fight to protect her “lifeline” on the sea 100 years ago, “Reap the Wild W T ind” will be coming to your town soon. FINALLY TO-NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE “This Gun For Hire,” and “Bad Men Of Arizona,” will show finally to-night at the Regent Theatre.