REGENT TALKIES

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVII, Issue 62, 8 February 1939, Page 3

REGENT TALKIES

DOUBLE BILL TO-NIGHT. Spotlighting a swiftly paced parade of outstanding entertainment personalities such as has been seldom seen on the screen, Twentieth CenturyFox offers a grand festival of topnotch singsational musical comedy in “You Can’t Have Everything,” showing here on Wednesday night. Featuring Alice Faye, lilting to new hi-de-heights; the Ritz Brothers, triple threats to gloom; Don Ameche, screen heart-throb and star of radio’s biggest show; Charles Winninger, radio’s “Cap’n Henry”; Louise ITovick, bringing a new personality to the screen; Rubinoff and his violin; and Tony Martin, romantic rave of the air-waves, Darryl F. Zanuck’s newest hit surpasses his famous “Sing, Baby, Sing,” “One in a Million,” “On the Avenue,” “Wake Up and Live,” and other musical smashes. Joe E. Brown in “Fit For a King” forsakes the “small town” boy character he has made famous. This new adventure, said to be one of the most hilarious the comedian has ever had, takes place mostly in Europe, with France and a mythical European kingdom serving as the scenes of action. Offering all the appeal of a modern romance in the “Graustark” manner, with the additional attraction of Brown as “the man from home,” “Fit For a King” is intended to prove a delightful experience for followers of the cavern-mouthed laughmaker. Joe is cast as a news hawk who is sent to cover a political plot in the kingdom, and his battle with intriguing diplomats and rival reporters forms the basis for the story. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. “ARSENE LUPIN RETURNS.” A streamlined mystery story with all the punch and zip of modern super-detectives in pursuit of their quarry, is unfolded in “ Arsenc Lupin Returns,” to be screened at the Regent on Friday and Saturday. Given an up-to-date plot based on the character in French fiction created hy Maurice Le Blanc, and able direction by George Fitzmaurice, the cast achieves new honors with their performances. Melvyn Douglas is easy and natural in a vigorous dual role of gentleman farmer and international adventurer. As Lorraine Do Grissac, who faces the danger of death when bandits try to steal the family emerald, Virginia Bruce has a role that offers a chance for a contrasting portrayal. In pursuit of the elusive Lupin is Warren A\ illiam, as Emerson, super “G-Man.” He is suave and convincing in his performance. The story moves at a swift pace from Washington to Paris and almost every type of action is included in the unfolding of the plot, from airplane flights and horseback rides to chasing three pigs through a haystack. Also on this programme—“Mickey’s Parrot,” a Walt Disney technicolor cartoon,