REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 206, 3 September 1935, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

"MR WHAT’S HIS NAME.” I “Mr. What’s His Name,” which j will screen at the Regent Theatre i this evening in conjunction with the Police-Press gala charity concert, is Sir Seymour Hicks’ first Mure for Warner Bros.’ Teddington studios ami the first time he has appeared on the screen since he was knighted in May. 1935. In “Mr. What’s His Name,” Sir Seymour [days the part of a mil • lionaire sauce manufacturer. He meets with a train accident, loses his memory, and forgets lw; is married, his name, ami all about his past life. He 1 joins partnership with a hairdresser, land one day while she out is forced Ito cut a well-known society woman’s , hair. He makes such a hash of it that Jail her friends think it is a new I fashion and flock to the salon. In no time tl\c firm of “Herbert” is famous, and this' leads to the exciting climax when his first wife finds he has married the hairdresser, she herself also haviig married when he was reported dead. I Other well-known players in the cast include Olive Blakeney, Garry .Marsh ' and Enid .Stamp Taylor. The complete programme is wonderful value, and there will also be the art union draw“Car 99’’ To-morrow. The continual efforts of the forces of the underworld in America to use 1 the latest inventions for their own , purposes, and the equally constant efforts of the police to evolve new methods of foiling them, are graphically portrayed in “Car 99,” which will commence screening at the Regent Theatre to-morrow. Machine-guns, number-plates that change over at the touch of a button, smoke screens, paint spraying plants, relays of motor-cars. ! and aeroplanes are used by a gang of 1 bank robbers in the course of their activities. The equally ingenious 1 measures adopted by the police—car radio, large scale maps with key , points marked so that an area can be covered in a very short time, and exceedingly efficient organisation—also ’ arc shown. The story, vvliich holds the attention throughout, concerns th ef- ■ forts of a young police recruit to suc--1 coed in his profession, and his ac- ■ cidental discovery that an elderly ■ gentleman masquerading as a professor , is the leader of a dangerous band of 1 criminals. He is outwitted, however, and the escape of the criminals leads to his dismissal. He is driven to des- . perate measures when the same band, in the course of another daring coup kidnaps the g'rrl he loves. Fred Mac Murray who made a promising debut in “The Gilded Lady,” adds to his reputation in the chief role, while strong support is given by Ann Sheridan, Sir Guy Standing, William Frawley, Frank I Craven, and Marina Schubert.