REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 199, 23 August 1934, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE

“COLLEGE HUMOUR” “College Humour,” a story of col-« lege as it ought to be, now being screened at the liegent Theatre, includes in its cast, in addition to Bing Crosby, Bichard Arlen, Mary Carlisle, Jack Oakie, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Coach Howard Jones, Lona Andre, .Alary Kornman and the Ox-Road Co-eds. It is the story of a college where crooning and love-making replace mathematics and history on the curriculum; where reputations made on the football field are lost in the boudoir. . It is huarious farce from start to finsh. Crosby croons the three hit tunes of “College Humour.” The tunes, 4 ‘Learn to Croon,” “Moonstruck” and “The Old Ox Road,” were written for the’film by bam Coslow and Arthur Johnston, and-already enjoy wide popularity. Bing Crosby is cast as a young instructor Arlen and Oakie are football heroes each in his own fashion. George Burns and Gracie Aden are ct lloge-widow and college-widower, in their own particular styles. Mary Carlisle, Lona Andre and Mary Kornman are among the college cuties who make life difficult for the boys. Music and comedv are distributed lavishl,' throughout the story, and the Ox-Road Co-eds dance in and out of the action. E/erv resource of the Paramour t .tudio—musical and writing and acting and directing talent; money and effort—went into tho pic-

ture to make it the outstanding musical comedy success of tho season. “The Round-Up.’’ Based on Zane Grey’s well-know# story of the lawless West, “The Border Legion,” “The Last Round-up’ l provides full-blooded entertainment in the best traditions of this type of production Through the excitement and dash of the action there is a strong under-current of sadness, which finds its expression in the singing of the melancholy cowboy song from which the picture takes its name. The story ‘is of outlaw bands that roved the West in the early days of its settlement, preying on cattle ranches ajid gold coaches. Monte Blue appears ai the leader of such a band, and th< action opens with a raid upon a small township, in which his plans are di* covered and the band is ambushed The whole story maintains the interest of the audience from beginning to end