REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 254, 26 October 1937, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“FAREWELL AGAIN.” The latest English picture, “Fare* well Again," concludes to-night at the Regent Theatre. A fine cast of players includes Leslie Banks, Flora Ronson, and Sebastian Shaw. The first hall of the programme consists in the main of Walt Disney's five Academy Award winning cartoons, "Flowers and Trees, Three Little Pigs,” "The Orphan Kittens,” and "The Country Cousin.” “The Go-Getter.” If Peter B. Kyne ever had in mind an actor to play the part of Cappy Ricks, the most popular of his creations—based, it is said, on the character of Captain Robert Dollar, the well-known American lumber and shipping magnate of San Francisco—he could not have visualised a better man than Cha les Winninger, who now takes this role in the Cosmopolitan production, "The Go-Getter,” from Warner Bros.’ Theatre, which is to commence to-morrow at the Regent Theatre. Well remembered for his Captain Andy in "Show Boat,” and for his more recent performance in "Three Smart Girls,” Charles Winninger is one of the finest character actors, as well as one of the most polished comedians that the American stage has given to the screen. He now scores another success as the irascible but lovable old shipowner who engages a young go-getter, Bill Austin (George Brent), as a salesman, only to find that the latter’s obstinacy is equal to his own when it comes to getting his own way, especially when he wishes to marry Cappy Ricks’ daughter. For Austin manages to captivate Margaret Ricks (Anita Louise) even before he quickly wins the old skipper over by his earnest sales talk when, following his discharge from hospital as a cripple, he beards the old man in his office after 1 being turned ddwn by the latter’s executive. The delightful humour of the picture—and this, outside of Winninger’s characterisation, is its main feature—results from thc conflict that rises spasmodically between the energetic Austin, abetted by others of his staff, and his hot-tempered and domineering employer, whose rage is liable suddenly to melt into chuckles of appreciation as quickly as it flares up when he is faced with opposition. The cunning Cappy Ricks often him- ’ self deliberately creates opposition i from an impish sense of humour, or as a shrewd business stratagem. The film opens dramatically with a sequence that vividly reconstructs the tragic disaster that actually befell the United States naval dirigible Macon, which was lost at sea. There is little I exaggeration in the story, but the [comedy that keeps it briskly moving 1 all the time compensates for this.