REGENT TALKIES.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXV, Issue 64, 26 July 1937, Page 3

REGENT TALKIES.

TO-NIGHT. “THE SONG OF FREEDOM.” All the world knows and loves Paul Robeson’s lovely voiee, particularly as it is heard in such songs as “01’ Man River.” Now, in his latest film, “Song of Freedom,” which is to he screened here for the last time to-night, he will he heard in no less than four new, specially written numbers. With music by Erie Ansell and lyrics by Henrik Ege, these are the songs now being featured by orchestras and singers all over the world. Their titles are: “Song of Freedom,” Stepping Stones,” “Lonely Road,” and “Sleepy River,” all of them being featured prominently in this remarkable film production, the scenes of which are set in Africa and Britain. Not only is the picture a festival of lovely melody, but it tells a thrilling and poignant story of a negro who longs to return to his own country, realising his ambition through the means of his voiee. WEDNESDAY. “LITTLE MISS NOBODY.” Jane Withers returns to the lovable harum-scarum type of role that first brought her screen fame in

“Little Miss Nobody,” Fox hit showing here on Wednesday night. The story of “Little Miss Nobody”—who incidentally turns out to be quite a somebody after all—is concerned with a mischievous orphan whose antics and pranks are the bane, and at the same time the joy of the orphan asylum’s heads. Jane is continually in hot water. As, for instance, when she beguiles the grocer’s son into thinking he has found a valuable pocketbook and which turns out to be a ruse that douses him with a bucket of water —and when she steals a complete chicken dinner so that the children in the orphanage will not go hungry Thanksgiving Day. M l> en s l le tries to he “very, very good” and do her bosom pal a good turn, Jane really gets into trouble and is committed To the reformatory. However, she (, ocs with a joyous heart for her trick has succeeded' and Betty Jean, her pal has been saved from being adopted l»y an arrogant, newly-ricli woman and instead has been taken by Jane’s own father! The Withers miss is more roguish than ever and further adds to tlie general hilarity by singing a brand new song, ‘ ‘ Then Caine the Indians,” by Jack Stern, Henry H. Tobias, Harry Tobias and Sidney Clare.