The World of Motion Pictures

Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 5

The World of Motion Pictures

THE REGENT

Now Showing: Gene Stratton Porter’s "A Girl of the Llmberlost” (Marian Marsh, Ralph Morgan. Louise Dresser). Coming Wednesday: "The Ninth Guest” (Genevieve Tobin, Donald Cook, Hardie Albright). Next Saturday: "The Good Fairy" (Herbert Marshall, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen). Coming Attractions: "The Wedding Night" (Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Helen Vinson. Ralph Bellamy); "Golddiggers of 1935" (Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Frank McHugh); "Lorna Doone" (John Loder, Victoria Hopper and allEnglish cast); "Car 99” (Sir Guy Standing, Fred McMurray, Ann Sheridan); "Sweet Music" (Ann Dvorak, Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan, Ned Sparks); “Clive of India” (Ronald Colman, C. Aubrey Smith. Montagu Love. Wyndham Standing); “Abdul the Damned” (Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther, Adrienne Ames, John Stuart); "Ruggles of Red Gap” (Charles Laughton, Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland. Zasu Pitts); "The Man From the Folies Bergere" (Merle Oberon, Maurice Chevalier, Ann Sothern). * * * *

The film version of Gene Stratton Porter’s book, “The Girl of the Limberlost,” now showing at the Regent, will appeal to all those people who read and enjoyed the book. Marian Marsh plays the name part, Louise Dresser has the difficult role of Mrs Comstock, and Ralph Morgan is Wesley Sinton. * * * ♦ All the action of the motion picture, “The Ninth Guest,” which comes to the Regent ot-morrow, takes place in a span of less than 24 hours. Most of the drama transpires during the time between nine in the evening and the early hours of the following morning. The picture is a screen adaptation of

the famous Broadway stage success of the same name, which hung up a record for mystery dramas by running nearly two years in New York. It is by Owen Davis, conceded one of the best of the mystery-drama authors. In the play, eight guests are invited to a mysterious penthouse party where they are told by a voice from the radio that they are all to die unless they can outwit the speaker. The fiend’s plans evolve successfully, until he interferes in the romance of two young people and encounters his match. Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin and Hardie Albright have the principal roles, with supporting places by Samuel S. Hinds, Nella Walker, Helen Flint, Vincent Barnett, Edwin Maxwell and Sidney Bracey.

“The Good Fairy,” coming to the Regent on Saturday, is a brilliant comedy. Margaret Sullavan and Herbert Marshall are seen together for the first time in this picturization of the Ferene Mojnar play. In “The Good Fairy” Margaret Sullavan plays an usherette. It is while she is looking at the romantic movies thrown on the screen, of that theatre, that she conceives the good fairy ideas which give the name to the moving picture and provide a drama which has a tremendous amount of suspense, thrill and romance. The little usherette conceives the idea that she could be a good fairy to three different people, and she is, in spite of the fact that she has no money, no business to be impersonating Providence, and no way of backing up the promises she makes. However, it all comes out right in the end, and the little usherette, who tried to help others, eventually earns a splendid reward for herself.