ROMANTIC COMEDY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23353, 19 November 1937, Page 7

ROMANTIC COMEDY

ATTRACTION AT REGENT Among some of the never-for-gotten characters of present-day magazine fiction is Cappy Ricks. He was created by the popular novelist Peter B. Kyne, and has been kept alive now for a good many years. In more intimate fashion, Cappy Ricks now comes before the public again in Warner Brothers’ Cosmopolitan production entitled “ The GoGetter,” which will be shown at the Regent Theatre to-day. Cappy is portrayed by Charles Winninger, but he is not the go-getter. George Brent has that role and is co-starred with Anita Louise. Anita Louise is Cappy Ricks’s daughter. And before Cappy will let Brent marry her he must go through a lot of tests which Cappy devises. He succeeds in going through them. The opening scene of “ The Go-Getter ” is one of the most dramatic ever shown on the screen. This is the fatal plunge of the United States dirigible Macon into the Pacific Ocean a few years ago. Brent is one of the crew He survives, but loses a leg and must leave the navy and find a civilian job somewhere. That is how he meets Cappy and Cappy’s daughter. Other notables in the cast include Henry O’Neill, John Eldredge, Joseph Crehan, Helen Valkis. Helen Lowell, Minerva Urecal, Harry Beresford. Herbert Rawlinson and Eddie Acuff. The supporting programme includes Jacques Fay and his orchestra, “ The Hollanders,” Colortour Adventures, and a colour cartoon, “ She Was An Acrobat’s Daughter.”