Amusing Double At Regent

Northern Advocate, 25 July 1938, Page 7

Amusing Double At Regent

Both the films “Battle of Broadway” .and “Feather Your Nest," which are current at the Regent, are unusual in i character and highly hilarious, combining to provide good entertainment. Air mail pictures of the second tests at Lords are highly topical. The basis of the story in “Battle of Broadway” is provided by a convention meeting of 400,000 members of the American Legion. When the ex-soldiers meet, a carnival spirit predominates l as in Sydney recently) and many humorous episodes of the affair are interwoven into the production. The picture records In particular the rousing and amusing adventures of two of the legionaires, Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy. Hailing from a big steel works, these two arc the best of friends —between fights. And how they fight, especially when they set out on a most altruistic mission 1o curb a beautiful “play girl.” The film comes to a glorious climax with a “free-for-all” in a rest | homo--of all places—as the culminai lion of the legionaires’ series of mid- | adventures in romance. I Action and laughs are the film's j main ingredients, as they arc also in "Feather Your Ncsl.' in which George Form by—he of the broad smile and the knowing wink—plays his best vole to date. He is always losing tilings in a recording studio, but when he finds his voice, the furniture starts i moving in —and out-—of his little suburban nest. In this English picture the ends of good humour are attained without straining after effects.