Mickey For New Zealand?

Southland Times, Issue 22767, 18 December 1935, Page 9

Mickey For New Zealand?

New Zealand’s Maoris, volcanoes and thermal wonders, and her deepsea fishing grounds may be used as “locations” for the adventurous antics of Mickev the Mouse. Walt Disney, “father” of the most famous star in the world, announced this in an interview upon arrival „in Honolulu. “I’m visiting Hawaii for the sole purpose of finding pastures new for Mickey and his gang,” said Mr Disney. “Polynesians cruised the wide Pacific, so why cannot Mickey? Every Pacific centre has its distinct attractions and customs and I plan to use them as novel backgrounds for Mickey. Adventure for Mickey. “For example, being chased by a swordfish, and then catching it, and cooking it in White Island’s crater, would be an unusual adventure for him. There are lots of New Zealand ‘slants’ we could use. Of course we’ll first have to make Mickey a good swimmer and voyager. This could be done easily by working out a travel idea in his series.”

THE REGENT NOW SHOWING: “We’s in the Money" (Joan Biondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Ross Alexander). NEXT SATURDAY: “Lady Tubbs” (Alice Brady, Douglass Montgomery, Anita Louise, Mildred Harris, Hedda Hopper, Alan Mowbray). COMING ATTRACTIONS: Jack London's “Call of the Wild” (Clark Gable, Jack Oakie, Loretta Young, Reginald Owen, Katherine de Mille); . "Student Romance" (Grete Natzler. Patrie Knowles. W. H. Berry, Carol Goodner, Ivan Simpson); "Joy Ride" (Gene Gerrard. Zelma O’Neal, Amy Venness, Gus McNaughton): “Broadway Gondolier” (Dick Powell, Joan Biondell. Louise Fazenda, Adolphe Menjou); "Alice Adams” (Katherine Hepburn, Fred Mac Murray, Evelyn Venable); “Les Miserables” (Frederic March, Charles Laughton). * * * * Warner Bros’, hilarious comedy, “We’re in The Money” is now at the Regent, with that inimitable trio of comedians, Joan Blondell. Glenda Farrell and Hugh Herbert, in the stellar roles. The story by George R. Bilson, and the screen version are said to be extremely funny, and filled with chuckles and riotous laughs. The picture concerns the efforts of two girls,. Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, to serve subpoenas on wealthy men in breach of promise suits. They work for a shyster lawyer, played by Hugh Herbert, who is so absent-minded he frequently forgets which side he is on. Glenda remains forever the gold digger, but Blondell falls in love with a wealthy young man dressed in a chauffeur’s uniform to escape process servers.

Many sly jabs at the snobbish rich are taken in “Lady Tubbs,” the rollicking Universal comedy coming on Saturday to the Regent, with Alice Brady starred and Douglas Montgomery and Anita Louise in the featured roles. The wealthy Ash-Orcutts, of Long Island, violently qbject to the marriage of their manly son to the niece of a former cook at a railway construction camp, solely on account of the fact that the girl comes from the wrong side of the tracks and can boast of no “family connections.” But when the aunt inherits a fortune and returns from England masquerading under the fictitious title of “Lady Tubbs,” the obsequious Ash-Orcutts receive the supposed noblewoman and her niece with open arms and entertain them lavishly. Miss Brady, as the cook now turned lady, is still not satisfied, however, and with the aid of a contemptuous neighbour succeeds in dragging from the closets of the luxurious Long Island mansion a pair of skeletons which the socialites had previously kept from each other. The climax of the story brings a succession of laughable situations and revelations which prove very, very embarrassing to her “snooty” host and hostess.