REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 277, 23 November 1936, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“STAGE STRUCK.” Though there have been many musical comedy pictures, beginning with the original “Gold-diggers of Broadway,” there is always room for another with catchy melodies and pleasing spectacles. “Stage Struck,” now showing at the Regent Theatre, has I both. Dick Powell makes his first appearance, complete with moustache, as a dance supervisor—the best in all New York—and fine comedy is provided by the efforts of his managers and by Warren Will’am, as a shrewd but impecunious producer, to get him interested again in the show business after he has developed an inexplicably strong hatred of women. As a wealthy and pampered divorcee who makes a speciality of shooting husbands and lovers in fits of rage, Joan Blondell has a role rather unusual for her, but which she carries off remarkably well. Jeanne Madden, a new ingenue star, gives an excellent performance as the g'.rl for whom, in the midst of his worries, the young dance director has a tender spot. Frank McHugh and the Yacht Club Boys arc others in the cast.