REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 85, 11 April 1935, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

•KANSAS CITY PRINCESS" Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, the pair of charming bombshells who caused explosions of laughter in ‘•Havana Widows.” and other pictures, again are teamed as a couple of ■ gold-digging manicurists in the ’Warner Bros, picture, “The Kansas City Princess, ” which is being shown lat the Regent Theatre. The fun starts • when Miss Blondell flirts with the wrong baby while her own sweetheart I is out of the city, the man proving | the smarter of the two and getting away with the girl’s flashy engagement ring as well as a little loving. ' Knowing her gangster lover, IDynainite, land realising her inability to explain the loss of her ring, she and her pal, Miss Farrell, beat it for New York on a convention train as two “outdoor scout girls.’’ They fall in with two smalltown aidermen, somewhat worse, or better, for drink, and are persuaded, to join them in a trip to gay Paree. But Dynamite is wise and has followed, bent on getting revenge and his big sparkler. On the boat the girls meet a millionaire playboy and in Paris they bust right into the aidermen’s wives and the philandering wife of the millionaire and her lover, and the fur flies in a regular storm of laughter. In the second attraction a talented cast of screen players has been assembled in the new British drama, “No Escape,’’’’ a Warner Bros. First Teddington production. lan Hunter, who has recently been signed to make pictures in Hollywood, has the leading role. Binnie Barnes has the role of the wife of a rubber planter. She falls madly in love with Hunter, who is her husband’s partner and, because he does not reciprocate, she poisons his drink. By mistake her husband takes the drink and falls dead. Hunter is blamed for the, crimp and, after breaking gaol, stows away nn a ship bound for England. British Agent" First National's most important picture of the new season, “British Agent,’’ in which Kay Francis and Leslie Howard are co-starred, was suggested as a screen play by R. H. Bruce Lockhart’s autobiographical narrative I of his adventures in Russia as a rep- ) resentative of Great Britain. It coni- >- mences on Saturday at the Kegent d { Theatre. The action of the story is II laid in the exciting days precedent to I and following the Russian Revolution of 1917, which forms the background lor the love story enacted by Miss . Francis and Howard.