THE REGENT

Southland Times, Issue 25308, 11 June 1935, Page 5

THE REGENT

Now Showing: "Outcast Lady” (Herbert Marshall. Constance Bennett. Mrs Patrick Campbell. Elizabeth Allan). an <> Thursday: "I Am A Thief ’ —The Great Karenina Diamond Mystery (Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Irving Pichel. Dudley Digges). I Next Friday: Alice Hegan Rice’s "Mrs Wiggs o£ the Cabbage Patch” (Pauline Lord, Zasu Pitts. W. C. Fields, Evelyn Venables. Kent Taylor). * * * *

I In “Outcast Lady,” now showing at [the Regent, Constance Bennett and [Herbert Marshall, as “Iris” and “Nap|ier” fit smoothly and easily into the characterizations provided for them by the clever pen of the original author, Michael Arlen, and the scenarist, Zoe Akins, The story is a strong but simple one, a saga of love under difficulties; of a woman who deliberately bespatters her own good name to protect that of the husnand who married her, then committed suicide on his Iwedding night. It has been directed Iwith a firm, strong touch by Robert Z. (Leonard of “Strange Interlude” fame, 'and it presents an important supportling cast which includes Hugh Williams, IMrs Patrick Campbell, Henry Steph'enson, Robert Lorraine and Lumsden Hare.

“I am a Thief,” said to be one of the most thrilling and baffling murder (mystery dramas screened, comes to the Regent Theatre to-morrow. The story by Ralph Block and Doris Malloy depicts the exciting battle between the French Surete and a band of international jewel robbers composed of impoverished nobles, beautiful adventuresses and men so diabolically cunning they are able to steal millions in gems. A trap is set by the secret service operatives for the thieves with the most famous diamonds of Europe, the Kareninas, which are worth a fabulous sum. Bloodshed and murder follow in the wake of the auctioning off of these diamonds which robbers are trying to transport from Paris to Istanbul. Much of the action takes place ion the famous Simplon Express, with the suspense building up to one of the most astounding climaxes. There is ian all star cast headed by Mary Astor and Ricardo Cortez.

Pauline Lord, celebrated American stage star, makes her screen debut in “Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” .Paramount’s adaptation of the Alice Hegan Rice play, written in collaboration with Anne Crawford Flexner. It comes on Friday to the Regent Theatre. Directed by Norman Taurog, the film, which has preserved all the homely, lovable philosophy .of the novel and play, also has W. C. Fields, Zasu Pitts, Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor in the principal roles. The parts of the famous “Wiggs’ brood” are played by capable Hollywood child-players, and the story tells the struggles and heartaches that come to this poor, struggling family, whose father “thinks too hard to be bothered with work.” The locale of the film is a beginning-of-the-century shantytown, the “cabbage patch,” where humorous, courageous but impoverished people share each others griefs and happiness in the struggle for existence.