Regent Theatre, Pahiatua

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 142, 17 June 1941, Page 2

Regent Theatre, Pahiatua

When Ernst Lubitsch is preparing a motion picture script he has it typed on vari-coloured paper, blue for dramatic scenes, yellow for comedy, red for romance, purple for tragedy, a colour for each emotional flavour. Then, when the script is completed, he is happiest if it has a “rainbow” hue, as he was in the case of his latest producer-direc-tor effort, ” The Shop Around the Corner,” starring Margaret Sullavan and Janies Stewart and opening to-day at the Regent Theatre. In “The Shop Around the Corner,” Lubitsch delved into every human emotion. The story of the owner of a little leather goods and novelty shop in Budapest and his assistants, it tells of their joys and sorrows, their relations with one another and changes in their relations, woven into a fascinating narrative of the

everyday events in the lives of everyday people. There is both drama and tragedy in it, but with a large percentage of bright yellow pages, whimsical comedy known as the “Lubitsch touch ’ ’ predominates.