REGENT THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25238, 29 May 1943, Page 6

REGENT THEATRE

BRIGHT MUSICAL COMEDY Bright and entertaining musical comedy is provided in full measure in “ Cairo,” the feature film in the change of programme at the Regent Theatre. Jeanette MacDonald plays the part of a film star whose mannerisms and tantrums come near to satirising her own screen parts. She has gone to Cairo to sing for the troops, and there runs into Robert Young, whose behaviour, even for a small-town reporter who has suddenly achieved the status of a war correspondent, is distinctly odd. He suspects Jeanette of being the leader of a gang of Nazi agents. He ingratiates himself into her house, which contains a bath as big as an 80001 b bomb crater, by posing as a butler. But butlers who pry at keyholes and crawl about on all fours are likely to raise the suspicions of even the most dunderheaded film star, and Jeanette begins to think that she is harbouring a spy. And so the merry nonsense goes on, with Miss MacDonald singing several songs in her very best style. Her voice has a quality that any amount of microphone and kinematic technique has not spoiled. The box plans are at the theatre and the D.I.C.