REGENT THEATRE
"JOHN MEADE'S LADY” A gripping story of a love that turned to hate and then to love again brings Edward Arnold to the screen again in the role of an industrial Croesus who thought he could buy a woman’s heart with gold, in “John Meade’s Lady,” which ~ concludes today at the Regent Theatre. Starring opposite him is the intriguing Francine Larrimore. Arnold, rich and ruthless industrialist, is engaged to Gail Patrick, a society beauty who intends to marry him for his money. She is really in love with Sidney Blackmer. who is of her own class. "Prince and the Pauper" What must be tlie supreme motion picture example of a wrong being corrected at the eleventh hour is given in Warner Brothers’ "The Prince and the Pauper,” an exceptionally fine entertainment which commences tomorrow at the Regent. Just as the crown is being placed on the head of an English king during a magnificent coronation ceremony it is discovered that he is not the rightful heir, and the real monarch is substituted.
"The Prince and the Pauper," a longer film than most, is a delightful comedy, with thrilling passages reminiscent of the escapades ol D’Artagnan and his musketeer colleagues. How the lords of the realm almost fall into the very considerable error or crowning the wrong man is explained by the similarity between the boy king and a ragged urchin. By an accident they exchange places and find it impossible to persuade the people that their positions are reversed. Such a position has provided excellent material for the film scenarist's imagination and full advantage has been taken of the almost inconceivable situations tliat ensue. By their resemblance to each other, the Mauch Twins are ideally cast as the prince and the pauper; indeed, it is said that when the film was being produced these two youngsters occasionally exchanged roles between themselves without the knowledge of the producers, direcors and other studio officials. Excellent support is provided by Errol Flynn, as a dashing soldier of fortune, by Claude Rai/is as the Earl of Hertford, by Alan Hale as the captain of the guard, and by Montague Love as Henry VIII.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 215, 10 September 1937, Page 9
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361REGENT THEATRE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 215, 10 September 1937, Page 9
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