REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 195, 21 August 1935, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

•‘SWEET MUSIC” -» > Rudy Vallee, world famous radio j crooner, comes to the Regent Theatre ; to-day in the latest and most pretentious of Warner Bros.’ mammoth musicals, “Sweet Music.” A’allee will be heard in half a dozen catchy songs written especially for the production. Ann Dvorak also sings and dances in spectacular numbers. Still another songbird who will be heard in the picture is Helen Morgan, famous torch singer, who made such a hit in “Show Boat.” Rudy Vallee's Connecticut Yankees appear in the picture as does the Frank and Milt Britton Band, which will dispense red-hot tunes. The picture, which carries a definite plot, is filled with romance, drama and hilarious comedy. There is a large and talented cast playing in support of Vallee, with Miss Dvorak as his leading lady. Hole Morgan plays herself, a blues singer, while others include Ned Sparks, Robert Armstrong, Allen Jenkins, Alice White, Joseph Cawthorn, Al Shean, Phillip Reed, William B. Davidson, Russell Hicks and Addison Richards. Scores of beautiful girls are seen in the dance numbers and spectacular ensembles which wore directed by Booby Connolly. “Ruggles of Red Gap” As a forerunner to the selected programmes to be screened during the forthcoming Paramount Week, the Regent Tb it re will present, on Saturday, “• Red Gap,” Harry Leon Wilso.i • story of society in the backwoods uf America during the rollicking 1900’s. Tn the title role is Charles Laughton, the eminent English. actor. Produced by Paramount, the picture features Laughton with an all-star comedy cast, including Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, Roland Young and Zasu Pitts, in the ludicrous, talc of the perfect butler, won in a poker game and taken to a small Western town to create a furore among the socialities. The picture opens in London, where “Ruggles” changes masters as the result of an all-night poker session. Taken to Red Gap, U.S.A., lie is introduced to local society as Colonel Ruggles of the English Army. The butler becomes so infused with the democratic spirit himself that he loses hi s old feeling of servility afid starts out on a career of his own. Laughton, round, jovial, and plump, renders an inspired performance in the comic role of this favourite of all butlers, and the balance of the cast match him laugh for laugh in the comic sequences.