HOLIDAY FARE

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15233, 24 December 1942, Page 3

HOLIDAY FARE

REGEN T SCR EEN INGS. On Christmas Day tli© feature at th© Regent Theatre will be “The Priin© Minister.” Royalty made tnstoic iove. The Prime Ministers were , supposed to busv themselves simply witji tlie more prosy matter of milking history. The gentlemen of No. 10 Downing Street "were supposed to bristle with protocol, rhetoric, and rich Indians. Two of the greatest owed their position and eminence almost solely to their wives. Benjamin Disraeli, as shown in the new Warner Bros. British-made picture. “The Prim© Minister,” might liav.o been nothing more than a fop of a. popular novelist if it had not been for Mary Anne. The greater part of “Th© Prim© Minister” is their love* story, with John Gielgud as Disaeli and Diana Wynwaid as Mary Anne. . . , , Paris of todav. under the heel ox the Nazi Gestapo, is thrillingly depicted in “Joan of Paris, ’ new RKO-Radio picture screening at the Regent on Boxing Dav costarring Michele Morgan, famous French star making her debut in American films, and Paul Henreid, whose role in “Night Train” established him as a favourite. The story concerns the desiderate attempts of five young R.A.F. flyers, shot down i n a raid over France, to outwit the sinister Gestapo and escape to England. In this they ar© aided and abetted by Joan, a youthful barmaid, Father Antoine, and Mile. Rosay. venerable agent of th© British espionage system Paul Henreid as Paul Lavallier and Michele Morgan as Joan, will, it is believed, become popular favourites through tliqir poignant and thrilling performances. Thomas Mit©h<*U is Father Aintoine and Laird Cregar is east as th© cunning, sinister Herr Funk. May Robson portrays Mile Rosay, Alan Ladd Jimmy Monks, Jack Briggs and Richard Fraser are Paul’s squadron flyers, and Alex Granach has the j-ole of a Gestapo sleuth. “Joan, of Paris” is based on nfi original story by Jacques Thiery and Georges Kessels. Robert Stevenson directed, and David Hempstead, famous for “Kitty Foyle.” produced the film.