REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 85, 9 April 1936, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“DEATH AT BROADCASTING HOUSE.” The most unusual and entertaining i minder mysterv stnrv t r V,.;,; i , 3 5 to come from I a Lutish studio screens at the ‘ Hegent Theatre to-day. The whole j “■>S takes place at Broadcasting! House and many remarkable intimate I I glimpses are gained of the workings o'l the great English broadcasting institu- I tion. A play written by Rodnev Flein- I ■ng is being broadcast, in which one of tie characters is to be strangled 4t! the rehearsals Julian Caird, the pro-'! ducer has the greatest difficulty with I his character, played by a man’named 1 arsons whose representation of bein', i strangled is a very weak one. Ii on “ I ever, on the night of the actual per-I tormanee of the play, Parsons, does his part magnificently. When the others go to congratulate him thev find to tnmr horror, he is lying on the floor, dead. What follows makes the picture a perfect mystery plav, “The Ghost Goes West.” Just over two years ago, Alexander Ixurda (bead of Loudon Films) was reading the Christinas number of lunciii. He saw a short funny story called “>Sir Tristam Goes West.” He 1 cad it, he liked it, and he visualised it as a film. And nu-w he has madv that film. Under the title of “The Ghost Goes West” it will be released by United Artists at the Regent Theatre on Saturday. From all accounts it is one of t4iu best things Korda has c\er done, lae story begins seveial centuries ago when 31urdocn Gloui’ie, scion of a warlike Scottish clan, gets himself killed because be is louder of dallying with the lassies than of lighting tlhe English. His irate lather dooms his spirit to haunt the ancestral halls until fie shall have wiped out Uhe stain on the family tartan by tweaking the nose of a 3f:,'.cLaggan, hereditary enemies of the family. What follows is delightful enteitainment. Robert Donat, the handsome star of “ Monte Christo ” and “The 39 Steps” plays both Donald and his ghostly ancestor, and Eugene Pal- I ette and Jean Parker W’ere borrowed from Hollywood to fill the parts of the American millionaire and his daughter with whom young Glourie falls in love.