REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 126, 29 May 1936, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

"THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL” “T'he Scarlet Pimpernel” screenin', finally to-day and to-night at the Ke gent Theatre, merits superlative! of the highest value. Leslie Ho wan. is Sir Percy Blakeney to the life. Tb( rest of the cast is extremely competent —Merle Oberon is a delightful Lad} Blakeney, Nigel Bruce a realistic Prince Kegent, and Raymond Massey sinister but real, ideally cast as the villian Chauvelia. “When Knights Were Bold” Jack Buchanan’s latest success “When Knights Wpre Bold,” will be presented at the Regent Theatre tomorrow. Two of the numbers whicih enhance the entertainment value of the film, “I’m Still IDreaming” and “ Let’s Put Some People to Work,” sung in Jack’s own inimitable breezy style, are destined to be instant favourites. Both songs are logically introduced into the story, Jack, as Sir Guy de Vere, the new Lord of Beechworth Castle, using the latter in his love making with his beautiful cousin, Lady Rowena. Somewhat embarrassed by the lady’s coolness towards him. the new Guy finds it a difficulty in expressing his ardour in mere words; so he puts his fedflngs to music and sings to her, “Let’s Put Some People to Work.” the words of which aptly plead his cause, but eventually earn for him—a slapped face. Of course, no Buchanan picture would be complete without an interlude of tap-dancing, and it is therefore no surprise when Sir Guy, after a particularly “heavy” night and an equally heavy blow on the head from a falling suit of armour, goes back in his dreams through the centuries, and finds the sandy floors of his ancestors’ castle distinctly to the liking of his tapping feet.