THE REGENT

Southland Times, Issue 22510, 19 February 1935, Page 5

THE REGENT

Now Showing: "Wake Up and Dream” (Russ Colombo, Roger Pryor, June Knight. Catherine Doucet, Henry Armetta). Wednesday: "Blood Money” (George Bancroft, Frances Dee, Judith Anderson) and "Advice to the Lovelorn" (Lee Tracy, Sally Blane, Sterling Holloway). Next Saturday: "She Loves Me Not” (Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Kitty Carlisle Edward Nugent.) Coming Attractions: "The Notorious Sophie Lang” (Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagh, Alison Skipworth, Leon Errol, Arthur Byron); "Death Takes a Holiday” (Frederic March. Evelyn Venable); “The Last Gentleman" (George Arliss. Edna May Oliver, Janet Beecher, Charlotte Henry, Ralph Morgan); “Lady By Choice" (May Robson, Carol Lombard, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly); “Here Comes the Navy" (James Cagney, Pat O’Brien. Gloria Stuart, Frank McHugh); "Now and Forever” (Shirley Temple, Gary Cooper. Carol Lombard); "Count of Monte Cristo" (Robert Donat, Elissa Land!).

Advice to the lovelorn is given daily as freely as old maids advise mothers how to raise their babies. But Lee Tracy is perhaps quite qualified in view of his role of agony column conductor in “Advice To The Lovelorn,” a 20th Century Picture released by United Artists, coming to the Regent Theatre on Wednesday. This is a clever and broadminded story providing excellent material with which to make first-class comedy, and is besides a stinging comment on the foibles of many of mankind and on the efforts of some modern newspapers to meet the demands thus set up. The supporting cast includes Sally Blane, Sterling Holloway, C. Henry Morgan, Isabel Jewel, Jean Adair and Ruth Fallows. On the same programme is Bancroft’s latest picture, “Blood Money,” which reveals him again in situations which call for that devastating laugh. The laughs are more spine-tingling than ever this time, because the gang-war scenes in “Blood Money” give Bancroft an unparalleled opportunity to unloosen his unique blood-and-iron personality. The cast includes Frances Dee, Chick Chandler, Judith Anderson and Blossom Seely.

Bing Crosby, crooner, comes to Invercargill on Saturday in “She Loves Me Not.” This is a college film with a difference. Besides giving Crosby ample opportunity to sing several brand new, typically Crosby tunes, “She Loves Me Not,” is also full of comedy and sus*. pense. A young night-club girl sees a murder committed and, fearing to be questioned by police, she runs away, getting as far as Princeton, New Jersey. Broke, hungry and desperate, she walks boldly into the room of Crosby, a student. By a clever ruse and a little disguise, he attempts to hide her in the dormitory. She is discovered, and the events that follow involve Crosby, the dean and the entire college in an uproarious series of events. Before the uproar subsides, the dean has been knocked out and forced to pose with the dancer. Bing Crosby loses his fiancee and wins the dean’s daughter, everybody is threatened with expulsion and finally reinstated, and the film closes with all happy except the disgruntled gunman who is stuck behind bars.