REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 278, 24 November 1936, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“STAGE STRUCK" I Though there have been many mu‘sical comedy pictures, beginning with ‘the original "Gold-diggers of Broadway.” there is always room for anjother with catchy melodies and pleasing spectacles. "Stage Struck,” showling finally to-day and 10-night at the [Regent Theatre has both. Dick Powell I 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 William. I Joan Blondell has a role rather unj usual for her. Frank McHugh and the Yacht Club Boys are others in the I cast. “The Three Maxims.” One of the most thrilling circus films yet shown in Wanganui, the Herbert Wilcox production, “The Three Maxims,” is the main attraction on the entertaining programme to be presented at the Regent Theatre for the first time to-morrow. ’With three outstanding players, Anna Neagle, Tullio Carminati and Leslie Banks, in the leading roles, the film reaches dramatic heights as it sweeps forward to its thrilling climax with two trapeze artists fighting for their lives 80 feet above Ihe ground. The story tells of "The Throe Maxims,” a trio of circus performers who are engaged by the manager of a Parisian theatre. Differences between Ihe two male members of the party over their affections for the beautiful girl who shares their act, nearly causes a tragedy and there are many breath-taking scenes to thrill the audience befoer the performers’ continued friendship is assured.