REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 305, 24 December 1937, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“THREE SMART GIRLS.' Dainty Deanna Durbin, with the charming personality, is seen in Universal’s gay comedy-drama “Three Smart Girls,” the Christmas attraction at the Regent Theatre, commencing at to-night’s midnight matinee. ' Three Smart Girls” tells the amusing story of three daughters of a rich New Yorker who upset their father’s May-December romance with a gold-digging blonde. The title roles are played by little Miss Durbin, Nan Grey, and Barbara Read. As the father, Charles Winninger essajti a new type of role. Miss Baines plays the part of the gold-digger, and Miss Brady is ideally cast as the v’.onde’s scheming mother. Mischa Auer is a hit as an impoverished nobleman whom the throe youngsters hire to lure the adventuress away from their giddy parent. Ray Milland and John King provide handsome romantic interest as sweethearts of the two elder of the three girls. The associate featture “Night of Mystery,” features another detective, Philo Vance, who is well-known to audiences for the suave and nonchalant manner in which he solves the most baffling mysteries. In this film, however, he docs not meet with success immediately. Several members of the Greene family, in addition to the one whose death brought Vance to the house, meet with strange fates while the detective prowls round, but finally he solves the mystery in a fashion that should appeal to theatre-goers, and frees of guilt a member of the household who was on the point of being arrested. Grant Richards takes the leading role, while Roscoe Karns acts as a foil to him in the role of the brainless detective who is also looking for the guilty man. “Night of Mystery” is a Paramount production it will not be screened tomorrow night. For the afternoon and evening sessions to-day, there will be the final screenings of “Cherokee Strip” and “Flyaway Baby.”