FARCE AT THE REGEM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 12

FARCE AT THE REGEM

"FOB THE LOVE OF MIKE" NEXT WEEK’S ATTRACTIONS 44 For the Love of Mike” commences at the Regent Theatre to-day. This British film is one o£ tiie most joyous things in celluloid t*at have been seen here for many years past. The farcical story is consistent in its freedom from any suspicion of this life s gravity. "For the Love of Mike” is well acted, well produced, and very fast-moving. Bobby Howes, as a private secretary, is the mainspring of the piece. He is tireiess and soon leaves his audience gasping for the breath it knows it will need for another laugh. Jimmy Godden, well known here, is a self-made man “who doesn’t want to boast about it,” and Constance Shotter. essence of vivacity, plays "Mike,” the ward whom he tries to defraud.

A crook story in which all the principal characters are trying, each in his own way. to circumvent the driving of the Devil, for money at all costs, is “The Devil is Driving,” com-

ing to the Regent next Wednesday, an unusual, superbly-acted story that grips all the way. Set iu a fifteenstorey garage, respectable and even elite .on the ground floors, but devoted to car thieving and disguise on the .upper floors, the swiftly-moving tale concerns itself chiefly with the workers there, some ignorant and honest and others who stop at nothing. “The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble,” the Universal laugh riot starring George Sidney and Charlie Murray, will open next Saturday at the .Regent Theatre. And anyone who has a sense of humour will find laughter galore in the sea-going comedy, the seventh of the 44 Cohens and Kellys’’ series. The story concerns Patrick Kelly, tug-boat captain, and Nathan Cohen, retired business man, who comes to see him after an absence of many years. The men are just starting to have their fun when a young revenue officer falls in love with Kelly’s daughter, unknown to him —and Kelly hates revenue officers. Kelly’s exwife also appears to collect alimony, the men are suspected of rum-running, Bad a general complication starts, A 100-building desert town street was constructed for "The Mysterious Rider. ’ ’ Norman Taurog is to handle the megaphone for Maurice Chevalier’s "A Bedtime Storv.”