REGENT TALKIE

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 72, 7 March 1938, Page 2

REGENT TALKIE

“WAY OUT WEST.” TO-NIGHT. The vogue of the popularity western pictures now includes so licking and stellar a team of « stars as Laurel and Hardy, si ing for the last time to-n in the feature-length comedy "1 Out West.” Sad-faced Laurel rotund Hardy have run the gamn age-old operas, fantastic farces the like during the more than years they have been making people of tlie world laugh, and i only natural that they would p for horse play at which they I displayed such artistic genius. “Way Out West” is an i vehicle for them; one of the i hilariously funny features they I ever presented. As a pair of ■■ derheel” desert prospectors i background of the color and tk of the gay 90’s wild west, H and Hardy romp through a sue sion of adventures and misadventi that send audiences into gala laughter. Stan and Ollie, in t tit st western, are dumber than in if this can be possible, and the suit is a comedy stampede. 1 hitch-hike to town in a stage a with a valuable goldmine deed, then the misdeeds commence! I natural blunders arc made the I far spotted gags that are comma for outshining anything vet exliik by the whimsical fantasies of U and Hardy. They swing to ada They sing in a trance! Realistic» actcrisation is turned in by the supporting east. Sharon Lvnet the honky tonk queen, is impres with her songs and dances; Ji Finlayson turns in his finest | fonr.anee as the heavy; Rnsinal renee is pretty and convincing a; kitchen “slavey.” WEDNESDAY. ANOTHER BIG DOUBLE BE Two outstanding films are feat! on Wednesday night's program® the Regent. “ Espionage ” is ait with the flavor of to-day’s headli filmed at the Metro-Goldvyn-Mi studios with Edmund 1/jwe Madge Evans in the leading a This is a narrative that describe studied movements of a million munitions maker who suddenly' ishes. A star reporter is proU assigned by an American newspl to trace him and an opposition d gives the same job to a girl rep* a star worker herself. The. dram cleverly lightened by belie able * edy and touched with real romn “Espionage” rates as one of better pictures of the year fo i It has romance, intrigue and a ‘ moving dramatic wallop. How are your nerves * If * can stand thrills occurring with' 1 cato speed, excitement that a tidal wave, and suspense that 1 have your spine a-tingle, “CW Chan at the Opera” will provide with a solid hour of thrill-p*’ entertainment, highlighted by V ous comedy and youthful romj With Warner Oland as Charlie Cl the arch-enemy of crime, coming; to face with Boris Karloff, tbs ■ of terror, the picture is the hip® of the wily Chinese sleuth’s and the acme in mystery enterti ment. The film opens with thf ® der of an asylum guard by han an inmate, whose warped mW cognises a picture of his wife! newspaper. Bent on vengeance, h loff completes his escape and g oft the theare where his wife is apP* ing in “Faust.” Attacking baritone, Karloff dons his McP® ! pheles costume and usurp- his rol the stage, disguised by the cos and mask. Charle Chau. M Ol trail, appears backstage at the °r but is unable to prevent two murders. When the madman s of terror strikes at two young ® Chan craftily apprehends hi® in a surprise denouement, the real killer.