REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 108, 9 May 1934, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“YOU CAN’T BUY EVERYTHING.’’ Wall Street, high finance, romance and mother-love all blend in “You Can’t Buy Everything,” which brings May Robson to the talking screen in one of tho most amazing vehicles ever | provided for her. The new Metro-Gvld-wyn-Mayer championship picture, which opens to-day at the Regent Theatre shows her as a money-mad woman financier, battling against financial giants, toying with the fate of banks and other institutions, and, between Wall Street coups, depicts her other side as a mother. Reminiscent perhaps of Hetty Green, Miss Robson portrays a woman who, jilted by a young banker in her youth, has two thoughts— to become the richest woman in the world and to get revenge. She pinches pennies, sends her crippled son to a free clinic, all to save for the great, day. She finally has her chance, through stock manipulation, to wreck the lover of her youth, only to find that her son and the daughter of the banker arc in love. In an intense dramatic scene she learns that mother-love comes above tho love of money, and a gripping climax solves her problem. Charles F. Ricsncr, noted for many rcssler Moran hits, directed the picture, injecting deft comedy and human angles into the story. Lewis Stone plays Burton, the banker-lover, and youthful Jean Parker enacts his daughter, with William Bako well as tho woman financier’s son. Mary Forbes plays the society woman friend of the female financial wizard. Reginald Mason the family physician, and the son, as a boy, is played by Tad Alexander, Walter Walker, Reginald Barlow and others have adequate roles in the picture, the action of which begins in the nineties, and extends down through the panic of 1907, giving accurate views of the financial crisis of the Theodore Roosevelt era. It was just 50 years ago, in 1883, that the Austra-lian-born May Robson, a timid girl of 17, walked out in front of the footlights to play the first two roles in her long and eventful theatrical career—and both these roles, an ingenue and a. charwoman, were in the same playThe debut was in a Brooklyn Theatre, and in the first and third acts Miss Robson was the charwoman—in tho second and fourth, the ingenue. Now, at the age of 67 years. Miss Robson is stil 1 in the theatrical limelight, stronger and more popular than ever, and she works almost every day before the cameras on her fiftieth anniversary an actress. Iler latest picture is a stirring story of high finance at the dawu of the 20th. century, in which Miss Robson, as a financial and eccentric genius, winds the money markets around her little finger.