Eddie Cantor Heads Week's Attractions At Regent Theatre, Rangiora

North Canterbury Gazette, Volume 8, Issue 20, 5 May 1938, Page 3

Eddie Cantor Heads Week's Attractions At Regent Theatre, Rangiora

AT THE TALKIES

During the school holidays matinees AA-ill be held in the Regent Theatre, Rangiora, on Tuesday and Thursdays as AA'ell as Saturday afternoons. TONIGHT'S PROGRAMME "I Met Him in Paris", with Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, and Melvyn Douglas in the lead, and "The League of Frightened Men," with Walter Connolly and Irene Hervey as the stars, will be presented tonight at the Regent Theatre, Rangiora. "STRIKE ME PINK" A RIOT OF FUN The outstanding comedy hit of the neAV film season will be seen Avhen "Strike Mo Pink," Eddie Cantor's sixth annual screen musical for Samuel Gokhvyn is presented on Saturday afternoon and evening at the Reget Theatre, Rangiora. Avith Ethel Merman, Sally Filers, Parkyakarkus, the Green dialectician of radio fame, William FraAvley, and the loveliest GoldAvyn Girls ever aiding and abetting the proceedings.

Magnificently mounted in the true GoldAvyn tradition, this fast-moving and eye-gladdening fun festival presents the saucer-eyed comedian in his funniest role as the alternately mouselike and aggressive Eddie Pink, graduate of a correspondence school course in dominant personality development, entitled, "Man or Mouse, What aro You?"

DOUBLE FEATURE ON TUESDAY A colourful romantic triangle betAveen a headstrong young Ncav Englander, his former fiancee, and a Mexican girl he meets in a frontier "cantina," forms the love interest of 'Border Cafe," RKO's neAV film drama with Harry Carey, John Real, and Armida, the alluring Mexican dancer, Avhich is to be screened on Tuesday afternoon and evening. How the Canadian Pacific Railway Avas constructed in the early 'eighties

is pictured in "The Great Barrier," the second feature- on the programme. An adventure drama with a background of pioneering thrills, this Gaumont-Brit-ish film stars Richard Arlen with Lilli Palmer, Antoinette Cellier, and Barry Mackay. THURSDAY—CHARLIE CHAN In a mad relay of thrills, shudders, and bafflement, with 100,000 wildlycheering spectators, every one a suspect, in the great stadium, Death holds the stop watch in "Charlie Chan at the Olympics," to be presented on Thursday afternoon and evening with Warner Oland in the title role. "Even champion athlete cannot outdistance murder!" observes the wily Chinese sleuth, in this race-paced thriller. "VICTORIA THE GREAT" Thrilling historical events that shook the world, vie with the tender charm of a fascinating love idyll in HKO Radio's "Victoria the Great," one of the greatest pictures ever made, with Anna Neagle) as Victoria. It will be screened on three days, Friday, Saturday, and Monday. The box plans are now open at Aldus Bros, (late Hunters,) High Street, phone 71, where seats may be reserved.