REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 222, 19 September 1936, Page 11

REGENT THEATRE

LABURNUM GROVE” J. B. Priestley’s well-known play “Laburnum Grove” comes to the screen at the Regent Theater to-day with little adaptation and great sucI cess. Edmund Gwenn and Sir Cedric Hardwicke are in the principal roles. Edmund Gwenn is a thoroughly likeable and humorous character. Being pestered by nis wife’s sister and brother-in-law, the last-named played by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and by a good-for-nothing who is in pursuit ot nis daughter's hand, he startles them by saying that he is a rorger with the police on his tracks, adding such realistic details that they all shudder at the mere sight of a policeman. So much success atends his strategem that he rids himself of his relations and his daughter of . her suitor, but an amusing situation later develops when the visit ot a Scotland Yard detective reveals to the audience, though not to the other inhabitants of the menage, that he is actually a forger. He hastily packs his familyoff to Holland, and prepares to escape there himself. He meets at the door, however, the local policeman, representing law and order. Immeasurably relieved to find that he wants only a subscription to a local club, Mr. Radfern, forger and gentleman, walks peacefully out of the picture. Famous Russian Tenor. The reappearance of the famous Russian tenor Senia Chostiakoff, at the Regent Theatre on Wednesday, September 23, supported by international celebrities, will be welcomed by Wanganui enthusiasts who were enthralled by his glorious voice on the occasion of his previous visit.