REGENT THEATRE

Southland Times, Issue 23181, 23 April 1937, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE

“THE RETURN OF SOPHIE LANG” The matching of two brilliant brains, one of a reformed diamond thief and the other of a man who still seeks to steal other people’s jewellery, forms the basis of Paramount’s cleverly produced film “The Return of Sopme Lang” which is showing finally at the Regent Theatre today. Sophie Lang once troubled the police of Europe and America by her sensational coups, but she has forsaken her old life and appears in the picture as the devoted companion of a rich New York woman who is crossing the Atlantic home-ward-bound with the famous Kreuger diamond in her possession. On the same liner is Max Bernard, former associate of Sophie’s, who sets out to procure the precious stone. Sophies attempts to protect her companion, her incidental romance with a newspaper reporter, and the subsequent entanglements with the New York police provide excellent entertainment which is interspersed with numerous, thrilling passages and amusing situations. HOPALONG CASSIDY RIDES BEGINNING TOMORROW Hopalong Cassidy rides again in “Trail Dust,” the latest in the actionpacked, hard-riding series of Clarence E. Mulford Westerns, which heads the new bill at the Regent tomorrow. Action, and plenty of it, marks one of the best Westerns. “Hoppy’s” attempt to “beat” a drought, and the efforts of crooked cattle buyers to take, advantage of it give a particularly interesting twist. William Boyd, as “Hoppy, rides the range again as head of a group of cowmen who are determined to get their cattle over parched range country to the railroad in a desperate effort to lift the threat of a famine which hangs over the south-west. With him are Jimmy Ellison, again as Johnny Nelson, and George Hayes as “Windy.” A romance between Ellison and pretty Gwynne Shipman, who rides with Boyd’s outfit and is instrumental in saving the herd just as it looks as if the expedition had set out in vain, is deftly worked into the story. “Along Came Love,” the other picture on this double feature programme, tells a charming story of the dreams and aspirations of Emmy Grant, a young girl employed in a large departmental store. She notices in the heavens the constellation Orion, and decides that she has fallen in love with the heavenly inhabitant and is sure that she will meet his counterpart in real life. Her prediction comes true in the person of Dr John Patrick O’Ryan, a struggling young interne. Many obstacles are put in the way of the young couple, but, notwithstanding a scandal in which Emmy’s mother figures, the course of true love comes to its own romantic conclusion. Supporting the leads, Irene Hervey and Charles Starrett, are old favourites in Irene Franlin, H. B. Warner, Doris Kenyon and Frank Reicher.