REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 191, 14 August 1931, Page 11

REGENT THEATRE

••WHAT A WIDOW” SPECIAL MATINEE A special matinee for the furtherance of the popular baby Plunket Society’s campaign is to be held at the Regent this afternoon. The whole of the programme has been selected with the view of providing something out of the ordinary, and the picture “ Seven Days’ Leave,” from J. M. Barrie’s tremendous stage success, <( The Old Lady Shows Her Medals,” is sure to be a huge attraction. The matinee starts at the usual time, half-past two, and the supports are in keeping with the high standard of the main film. “What a Widow!” Gloria Swanson—the emotional actress—has become again Gloria Swanson, comedienne. From her highly dramatic mother role in “The Trespasser,” she has turned to the field of comedy to achieve another triumph as the ■ lashing madcap referred to in the title of “What a Widow!” her new United Artists’ picture, showing finally to-day at the Regent Theatre. “What a Widow!” is nothing like tho tomfoolery in the picture at the start of her screen career. It is perhaps the' most pretentious picture she has ever produced. In the matter of clothes, she has surpassed all her previous records. There are clothes for morning, afternoon and evening wear in profusion — clothes suitable for everything from riotous comedy in street scenes, to the well ordered magnificence of a formal reception in her Paris town house. Paul Nelson, American graduate of Beaux Arts. Paris, was brought on from Paris to design the modernistic sets which I are the last word in stagecraft. ■ Dracula” Tor Saturday. “Dracula.” which is coming to the Regent Theatre to-morrow, tells a story of vampires—those strange “undead” creatures with terrible, abnormal appetites, who rise from their graves at night and reduce their unsuspecting victims to madness or death, but it is said to constitute one | of the most remarkable photoplays in the annals of filmdom. “Dracula” i was adapted from the famous play of j the same name, and the original novel by Bram Stoker, which still enjoys a • tremendous sale each year. The .- T'-cn production was directed by Tod Browning, and the cast includes Bela Lugosi. Helen chandler, David Man- , ners, Edward Van Sloan, Frances ' Dade. Dwight Frye. Herbert Brunston i and Charles Gerrard. i FIRE BRIGADE SOCIAL FUNDS A picture programme of no mean I j order is to be shown at Gonville on | i August 25. in aid of the Fire Brigade I social funds. The hall has been given HEALTH FOOD SALE There is to be a stall of health food at the Victoria League Rooms to-day, conducted by the committee in charge of the campaign for the »St. John’s Hill Plunket baby. Miss E. Rose, matron; of the Karitane Home, is to lecture on • I the health-giving qualities of the foodsj : on sale and recipes will be available I for those who require them.