REGENT TALKIES.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 139, 19 August 1938, Page 3

REGENT TALKIES.

SATURDAY AND MONDAY. “BEG, BORROW OR STEAL.” A caravan of comedy with lavish backgrounds will move across the screen at the Regent Theatre on Saturday and Monday with excellent results. It is called “Beg, Borrow or Steal,” and features Frank Morgan, Florence Rice and John Beal. Serving to give Morgan the top billing for the first time under the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer banner, it is swell entertainment that ranks with “Libelled Lady” and “My Man Godfrey” in humorous propensities. “Beg, Borrow or Steal” is the story of an American tourist guide who promotes a chateau on the Riviera to carry out a bluff to his family in America. The idea is to use the place for his daughter’s wedding, and he calls on his crook pals to pose as nobility. With one eye on the police, Morgan manages the plan all right up to a certain point. But the daughter, being a chip off the old block, upsets things by marrying the wrong man. The picture is filled with laughs, furnished by a east of experts. Morgan is excellent as usual in the featured role. Miss Rice and Beal again display their flair for comedy that was evidenced in “Double Wedding.” Also showing with this programme is the first of “The March of Time” series, an entertaining happy harmony in technicolor entitled “Little Bantamweight,” a light comedy “Stroke of Genius,” and “Casa Manana Review.”