REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 197, 23 August 1935, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“SWEET MUSIC" Rudy Vallee’s musical spectacle, “Sweet Music,’’ now at the Regent Theatre, is good entertainment. The njature has a well-knit plot. There is a fascinating romance with dramatic moments, plenty of hilarious comedy, clever dancing, gorgeous spectacles and fine damping. The story concerns a college boy (played by Rudy Vallee, the well-known American crooner ami band leader), who has organised his own band and who croons his wav to a tremendous success in night clubs and on the radio. He falls in love with a beautiful dancing girl and is instrumental in promoting her to success, although she is led to believe by her manager that the band leader is jealous of her and is trying to belittle her act. Rudy Vallee and Ann Dvorak have the romantic leads, and are well supported. The song hits introduced include “Everyday.” “Fare Thee Well, Annabelle,” “Sweet Music” “There’s a Different You.” “I See Two Lovers” and “The Good Green AVres. ’ ’ “Ruggles of Re<i Gap” With Charles Laughton, eminent English actor, in the title role, “Ruggles of Red Gap,” Harry Leon Wilson’s famous story of society in the backwoods of America during the rollicking 1900’s, comes to the Regent Theatre to-morrow. Produced by Paramount, the picture features Laughton with an all-star comedy ea<st, including Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles. Roland Young, Z’asu 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 socialites. The picture opens in London, where “Ruggles’’ changes masters as the result of an all-night poker session. On his first day with his new —and democratic —master. “Ruggles” starts out to show him the picture galleries and winds up on a drunken spree. Taken to Red Gap, U.S.A., he 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 his old feeling of servility and starts I out on a career of his own. The comic effects of Red Gap society when “Ruggles” begins courting the town’s leading widow and setting himself up in business as a restaurateur are brought to a happy conclusion when he achieves both ambitions. Laughton, round, jovial, 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 incredibly comic sequences. Maude Eburne and Leota Lorraine, a newcomer, prove agreeable surprises in minor characterisations.