REGENT THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25304, 14 August 1943, Page 6

REGENT THEATRE

MUSIC AND ROMANCE Vaudeville in its glittering he>dey at New York’s historic Palace Theatre, and haunting songs of a former era form the background for a poignant romance in “ For Me and My Gal,” which heads the new programme shown at the Regent Theatre yesterday. Judy Garland, in her first fully adplt role, plays the part of a young vaudeville singer, in the year 1915, in a small-time act, longing, as all variety players did, for “ the big time and the Palace. She and Gene Kelly, becoming vaudeville partners, fall in love, and vow to marry the day they play at the Palace. Then the World War intervenes and Kelly is called up. To gain a delay' until they can realise their goal, he purposely injures his hand. Judy renounces him and turns camp entertainer. To his dismay he finds the hand injury is permanent, but, joining the entertainers in France, he manages by a feat of- heroism to redeem himself. Famous songs of the vaudeville era, “ For Me and My Gal,’ _ Oh, You Beautiful Doll,” “ By the Beautiful Sea “Oh, Johnny,’’ “They Go Wild-Over Me, and many others figure in vaudeville acts in which'Miss Garland, Kelly, and George Murphy appear, and Marta Eggerth makes her American screen debut. The box plans are at the theatre and the D.I.C.