REGENT TALKIES

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 70, 2 March 1938, Page 3

REGENT TALKIES

TO-NIGHT. GREAT DOUBLE BILL. Hang on tight! That family’s in again! This time, however, it’s not a private fight, for the Jones Family, in “Off to the Races,” Twentieth Century-Fox hit showing at the Regent this evening, is beset with a new complication—Uncle Slim Summerville and his horse have moved in! The fourth film in the popular series featuring the adventures of a typical American family retains the players who have made the Jones Family one of the country’s favored households — Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Spring Byington, June Carlson, Florence Roberts and Billy Mahan—and adds, as a new interest opposite- Shirley Deane, personable young Russell Gleason. “In Off to the Races,” their latest film, the happy, scrappy Jones Family, as amusing and as human as your new neighbors, were directed by Frank R. Strayer, with Max Golden associate producer. A movie within a movie—the murder of an international jeweller on a coastwise steamship between Los Angeles and San Francisco —a second murder in a Chinese theatre in San Francisco’s Chinatown —these are the ramifications of one of the most unusual mystery dramas to reach the screen, “Mad Holiday,” with Edmund Lowe and Elissa Lnndi in the principal roles. “Mad Holiday” was adapted from the Joseph Santley story “Murder in a Chinese Theatre.” George B. Seitz deserves plaudits for his competent direction, and the picture can be recommended as a treat for those who like something unusual" in their mystery dramas as well as for those who like their chills well padded with lighthearted humor. A special feature of. to-night's programme, in the News of the Day, will be scenes from the sinking' ol the American steamer Panay by the Japanese, the rescue of survivors, aid their arrival at Shanghai.