REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 148, 26 June 1934, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE

“EVERY WOMAN’S 'MAN-’’ All the glamour, colour, and thrills of the prize ring are realistically on display in ”Every Woman’s Man,” the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film that shows finally to-day at the Regent Theatre. Max Baer, who is paired with Myrna Loy in the new picture, proves himself as great a lover as he is a fighter. Tall, lithe, and handsome, Baer’s stature conjures up mental images of cleanlimbed Greek gods and athletic students. Wherever there is Baer there is movement. He is never for a moment still. One watches him making love to beautiful Myrna Loy or battling with giant Primo Camera in an epic ten-round fight, and one wonders about the source of such tremendous energy. And Baer is graceful as he is active. Tall, with extremely broad shoulders, he has a wasp-like waist and long, supple legs. This would seem to be the formula for gracefulness, for Baer moves more like a dancer than anything else. Primo Camera, by comparison, resembles a great bull elephant, but a very fast and dangerouslooking elephant.

“A Southern Maid.” Romance, melody, humour and drama are well blended in the next. Regent attraction, ”A Southern Maid,” the screen version of a musical play in which Gladys Moncrieff made a great success some years ago. The story is deftly handled and serves to introduce several charming musical numbers. It opens in a small European principality where a fiesta is in progress, and a wealthy Englishman who is visiting the port in his yacht falls in love with a girl who is crowned ” Queen of Beauty.” He elopes with her in spite of the efforts of her nobleman lover to thwart him. Their marriage is a happy one, and many years later their son, on a visit to Egypt, falls in love with his mother’s niece, who is also travelling. They return to her home, but in the meantime the girl’s father has arranged her marriage with the nobleman whose heart was broken by the earlier romance. A scene' occurs at a banquet at which the proposed marriage is announced, and 'the lovers part in anger, only to ho re-united. Bebe Daniels, one of the best-known American actresses, makes a splendid musical-comedy heroine, and her acting is always convincing. Her leading man, Clifford Mollison, gives an adequate portrayal. Harry Welchman, as the disappointed aristocrat, has a magnificent voice, and sings with an incontestably romantic air. Lupino Lane provides much of the comedy as the leading spirit of rhe Spanish town, while others in the cast are Nanc.y Browne and Amy Veness“Songs of the South Seas,” a delightful musical film, and several interesting Gazettes, are included in the supporting program me.