REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 182, 6 August 1935, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST.” A story as beautiful as Nature herself is the description that has been applied to the charming film, “A Girl of the Limberlost,” which is being screened at the Regent Theatre. When a strong cast is selected to interpret the piQturised work of a best-selling novelist, something exceptional in entertainment may be expected as a result. Few admirers of*Gene Stratton Porter—and her reader? are legion—have failed to read and enjoy the ntensely human story she wrote unde this title. It is a tale with a tang of the outdoors, cast in a realm of simple, lovable people, whose lives, while far removed from city lights and whirl, are none the less tinged with romance and drama that is the substance of every worth-while story. The film version is faithful and adequate, and is said to be a well-produced production, directed with a deft sympathetic touch that should grip the audience from the out set and never allow the interest to flair. Brilliance of photography is state! to be one of the hall marks of the picture; another is its cast, which includes sveh stars as Marian Marsh, Ralph 31 organ, Louise Dresser and Eddie Nugent. “The Dragon Murder Case.” In “The Dragon Murder Case.” at the Regent Theatre to-morrow, the trouble begins when a somewhat unpleasant young man dives into the forbidding bathing pool on the estate of Rudolph Stamm, explorer and fish-coi-lector, and fails to come up again. When the pool is drained no body is found, but in the mud are footprints which a dragon might have made. For a while it appears likely that even Philo Vance’s methods will fail to survive the test, but an accident put him in the way of unearthing a less supernatural explanation of a very grim sequence of events. Warren William appears as Vance. Eugene Hallette, as usual, is the incredibly stupid Sergeant Heath; and Etienne Girardot appears as irascible Dr. Doremus, the coroner. This film will please all lovers of mystery.