"SHE COULDN’T SAY NO"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 150, 27 June 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

"SHE COULDN’T SAY NO"

THE REGENT PROGRAMMES COMEDY IS COMING It is always hopeless when a girl lavishes all her love on one man and receives none in return? Custom decrees that a woman shall be the pursued one. In view of this should she retire and suffer in silence or fight with all her feminine wiles for the possession of the one she feels to be her man? This situation forms the basis of the story of “She Couldn’t, Say No,” the Warner Bros, and Vitaphonc production starring Winnie Lightner and Chester Morris, which is coming to the Regent Theatre to-day. The famous Winnie is shown as an entertainer in a night club, desperately in love with Jerry, the former racketeer who has become her manager. But Jerry (played by Chester Morris) is decidedly not interested. Winnie tells Jerry of her great love for him and begs him to give up the society girl who, Winnie feels, is interested in him merely because he is en tirely different from the men she has been accustomed to meeting. He insists upon proclaiming his love for the other girl, and Winnie, after a futile fight, leaves the city brokenhearted. Months later Jerry’s eyes are opened but it is too lato. “She Couldn’t Say No” is not just a song and dance film. It is filled with absorbing drama. The supporting cast includes Sally Eilers, Johnny Arthur and Tully Marshall. “This Thing Called Love” The success “This Thing Called Love” attained on the speaking stage should ensure a brilliant success for this smart Bathe comedy in dialogue picture form, which comes to the Regent Theatre on Wednesday next. Edmund Lowe and Constance Bennett are featured. As a stage play it was one of the season’s big successes. The amazing situations that have been worked out in this picture by the author, centering on the idea of a modern marriage in which the wife stipulates that she is to receive a salary and that neither wife nor husband is to be denied other lovers, provide a great deal of entertainment and much amusement. Constance Bennett and Edmund Lowe head a brilliant cast. Miss Bennett plays the part of the wife. Lowe, as the husband who has just come from Peru where he spent fifteen years in mining ventures, is seeking a real home, but accepts this arrangement, believing that b*' can arouse his wife’s jealousy and <yin her over to the good oldfashioned idea of married life. Others in the east include Zasu Pitts, Roscoe Karns, Ruth Taylor, Stuart. Erwin and Carmelita Geraghty. “Morocco” Showing Soon The talking screen has found its voice in Paramount’s “Morocco,” in which Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou will be seen soon at the Regent Theatre. At infrequent intervals, the motion picture industry produces a super-picture, one achieving

tho rare combination of power, sweep, artistry and universal appeal. “Morocco” is such a picture. It’s the greatest love drama since “The Sheik.”

“Morocco” is a story of a turbulent, fierce, ail-consuming love; of a man and a woman, swept into a maelstrom of emotions which neither of them de-, sires, and neither can resist. Filmed on a majestic scale, against the colourful background of old-world Morocco, and the intriguing French Foreign Legion, “Morocco” is epic in proportions, a contribution to cinema art, which will lift its director, Josef von Sternberg, even higher in the ranks of the truly great motion picture makers. “Morocco” is more than a human drama told in pictures. Back of its amazing emotional action, is a fascinating setting, an astounding realism, a fusing of the forces of nature, and of life, that lift a picture to greatness.

The first all-movie university club in the world is being organised at MetroGold wyn-Mayer studios. The most novel feature of the club is that all members must be directly connected with the production of motion pictures as well as being from accredited colleges and universities.

Hardie Albright, son of a Pittsburg detective, football and track athlete for Carnegie Tech and recently made *t Broadway favourite through his work in “Tho Greeks Had a Word For It,” has been given tho leading role in “Young Sinners,” now being filmed in Hollywood by Fox Films. After earning bis A.B. degree at Carnegie Tech, Albright studied at tho Chicago Art, Institute and then went to the stage, playing with Otis Skinner and others. Ho played the leading juvenile role in the Broadway production of “Young Sinners.” After a two years’ absence from the screen Thomas Meighan returns to play the trainer. Cecilia Loftus, Lucien Prival and William Holden are also in the east. John Blystone is dii’cctiug.