ENTERTAINMENTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3894, 26 April 1937, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

AT THE REGENT. “THREE SMART GIRLS.” TO-NIGHT, TO-MORROW AND WEDNESDAY. Millions have heard the glorious soprano voice of Deanna Durbin singing in Eddie Cantor’s radio show. Now everybody in this town can see Deanna’s rare beauty in the movies and hear her golden tones at the same time. Dainty Miss Durbin has been brought to the screen by the New Universal in “Three Smart Girls,” which is now being shown at the Regent Theatre. Possessing a lyric soprano voice that electrifies all who hear it, little Miss Durbin makes her movie debut in one of the gayest comedy dramas ever to come out of Hollywood. It deals with the madcap adventures of three lovely daughters of a New York millionaire who join in a conspiracy to break up their father’s romance with a fortune hunting beauty. The blonde, played by Binnie Barnes, and her scheming mother portrayed by Alice Brady, put up a spirited fight for their matrimonial prize, but are outwitted by the three smart girls. Charles Winninger, as the millionaire, Ray Milland and Mischa Auer are prominently cast . You will be enchanted by the music, thrilled bv the romance and convulsed by the humour of “Three Smart Girls.” Be sure to see it at the Regent Theatre. AT THE EMPIRE. “THE TEXAS RANGERS.” AGAIN TO-NIGHT. The organisation of men whose work was largely responsible for making a unified, law-abiding State out of the sprawling region of early Texas is immortalised in King Vidor’s epic, “The Texas! Rangers,” a Paramount picture now being shown at the Empire Theatre. Filled with action and the colour of the postReconstruction period along the Panhandle, “The Texas Rangers” features a cast headed by such top-notch stars as Fred Mae Murray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, Lloyd Nolan, Edward Ellis and Bennie Bartlett. It was filmed in outdoor locations in Texas and New Mexico, with the Governors of both States giving full co-opera-tion. Beth Mac-Murray and the wisecracking Oakie are members of the Rangers in the picture. Miss Parker, as the daughter of the commander of their station, is centre of the romantic story which featured against the epic background.