DRAMA AT REGENT

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 934, 2 December 1933, Page 19

DRAMA AT REGENT

Warner Baxter Featured in “ Penthouse.”

Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy are the featured players in “ Penthouse,” the excellent dramatic production yyhich began, at the Regent Theatre' today. It is a delightful talking picture adaptation of the novel by Arthur Somers Roche, which was published serially in the “ Cosmopolitan Magazine.” As a scion of an aristocratic New York family, and a society lawyer who chooses to defend notorious “racketeers,” Warner Baxter is said to give one of the finest performances of his long screen career. As Gertie Waxted. a beautiful night club girl, Myrna Loy is reported to have far surpassed any of her triumphs in previous productions. With exotic roles now a part of her brilliant past, in “ Penthouse ” Myrna Loy has taken command of one of the strongest and most lovable characterisations of her career, and her romantic scenes with Warner Baxter will long be remembered. Mae Clarke, the Broadway stage favourite, who appeared with success in “ Turn Back the Clock ” and ” Waterloo Bridge,” fills a featured role as Mimi, the charming night club hostess who dies mysteriously. Phillips Holmes heads the supporting cast as Siddall, the young man-about-town who is accused of the murder of Mimi, a former sweetheart. His life is saved through the efforts of his friend, Warner Baxter. who conducts a secret investigation and proves that Mimi’s death was the climax pf an underworld “ frameup.” Others who play important roles in this great show are Martha Sleeper, C. Henry Gordon, Nat Pendleton, George E. Stone. Robert Emmett O’Connor, Charles Butterworth and Raymond Hatton. Box plans at The Bristol.