AMUSEMENTS

Northern Advocate, 17 August 1933, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT. FINE BRITISH PICTURES. The current programme at the Regent is one which is sure to please all tastes, presenting as it docs * two fine pictures of entirely dissimilar interest, the one an enthralling drama, the other a light and most entertaining comedy. Of the “Hound of . the Baskervilles” it is sufficient to say that this film presentation quite lives up to the conception of the great detective novelist responsible for the plot. The many who have read the book and the few who have not, were alike enthralled last night by this gripping mystery story of the Devonshire Downs. Sherlock Holmes, Dr, Watson and the other diameters involved are all well portrayed, and the dialogue was written by the late Mr Edgar Wallace.

4 4 Tli e Mini From Toronto,” another English jhcturo, made by Cainsborough, is n clever and hilarious comedy. Here you have Jessie Matthews engaged in a merry masquerade, devised with the intention of assuring herself that a young gentleman who comes from Canada to study his “heiress is less attracted by the fortune which would accrue from such a union than by her own personal charms. The lady becomes her own maid, and a merry dance she leads the colonial. It ail works out to everybody’s satisfaction, but many and diverting cross purposes insert themselves into this piquant romance.

For the most part the scene is 1 uid in tlie countryside, and the pageant scenes which lead are gems of rural life and yoke] humour. This is easily flu; vivacious .Miss Matthews’ most charming portrayal. As the lawyer executor of the absurd will Fred Kerr excels himself, and the aiding in this picture also is splendid throughout. There should not be an empty seat when this heartily recommended programme is repeated tonight ami tomorrow night.