ENTERTAINMENTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4233, 19 January 1940, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

AT THE REGENT. FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. “BACHELOR MOTHER.” Paired for the first time Ginger Rogers and David Niven are costarred in the Regent Theatre’s new romantic laugh hit “ Bachelor Mother.” Weaving a unique and clever love story into its hilarious plot, “ Bachelor Mbther ” has Ginger Rogers as a sales girl in a metropolitan department store, in which Niven is seen as the store’s efficient and busi-ness-like executive son of the owner, played by Charles Cobum. Passing an orphanage during her lunch hour, Ginger espies a woman leaving fa, baby on the steps and rush away. She goes to pick up the child, and is seen by one of the institution’s matrons, who assumes that Ginger is the baby’s mother. Her denials only make matters worse, and an investigator is sent to the department store to check up. This brings Ginger to Niven’s attention, and he magnanimously enhances her job—if she will be a good “ mother ” and take proper care of her “ baby ” I Ginger goes berserk, and desperately endeavours to make the orphanage take the infant. Failing, she tries to wish it on to Niven. Horrified, Niven lectures her on her inhuman conduct, and, using her job as a threat, forces her to rear the youngster. The consequent association between Ginger and Niven arouses the jealousy of her self-ap-pointed boy friend, a young stock clerk in the store, who anonymously misinforms Coburn that Niven is the father of Ginger’s child. This leads to the hilarious climax of the picture, when Coburn tries to make Niven marry the girl so that he may claim the infant as his grandson ! COMMENCING SATURDAY. “THE SON OF FRANKENSTEIN.” The Regent Theatre management announce, with considerable pride- “ The Son of Frankenstein,” for a season of three nights commencing to-morrow. This class of film has a great vogue everywhere, and it is claimed that “Son of Frankenstein” is even more of a thriller than w*as “Frankenstein,” or any of the associated pictures with those talented actors, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Basil Rathbone prominently cast. There are thrills galore, and some of them will test the nerves of patrons; but there is also entertainment, leavening the dramatic moments admirably. Reports from other centres indicate that patronage through! the season was well above average, and

patrons expressed themselves afterwards as well pleased with “The Son of Frankenstein.” There are also some excellent supporting featurettes. It should be noted that “The Son of Frankenstein” will not be screened at the usual Saturday matinee, and instead popular entertainment, “Everybody’s Baby/’ featuring the Jones Family, will be screened.