Amusements

Northern Advocate, 1 April 1937, Page 2

Amusements

“LAUGHING AT TROUBLE,” AT REGENT.

! Portraying the lusty, two-fisted | battle of a wdman newspaper editor against the forces of jealousy, conspiracy and mob madness in a small town, “Laughing at .Trouble,” Twentieth Century-Fox’s alternately gripping and uproarious new film drama opened last night at the Regent Theatre. Jane Darwell, Sara Haden, Lois Wilson, Margaret Hamilton, Pert Kelton, and John Carradine are featured in the cast of this fast moving story of mirth, murder and mystery. | Chuckles and grins vie with thrills i and lumps in the throat as Jane Darwell, the forthright woman editor who bosses a whole town and makes them like it, pits her brains and courage agaiftst a murderer, matches her shrewdness against a lynch-crazed mob, and saves an innocent boy’s life. The accused youth, Allan Lane, is torn from the arms of his sweetheart, Delma Byron, jailed and convicted of the strange murder of a local philanthropist. Convinced of his innocence and sensing treachery. Editor Darwell wages a lone battle for his life through her newspaper. Finally, she traces the real murderer by working on the jealous .passions of a woman in love with the town’s shyster lawyer, and re-unites the two young lovers.

Also on this programme is “Thanks a Million,” a tuneful musical featuring Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Patsy Kelly and Fred Allen, also Paul Whiteman’s famous band and Rubinoff the brilliant radio violinist. It is a comedy musical with an electioneering campaign for its theme, which lends scope for brilliant comedy and delightful song numbers, chief of which is “Thanks a Million.”