REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 306, 27 December 1937, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

iHREE SMART GIRI-S.* Dainty Deanna Durbin, with th® charming personality, is seen in Universal's gay comedy-drama, "Three Smart Girls,” now showing at the Regent Theatre, “Three Smart Girls” tells the amusing story of three daughters of a rich New Yorker who upset their father's May-Dcccmber romance with a gold-digging blonde. /The title roles are played by little 'Miss Durbin, Nan Grey, and Barbara !Read. As the father, Charles Win--1 ningcr essays a new type of role. Misa Barnes plays the part of the gold- [ digger, and Miss Brady is ideally cast las the olonde’s scheming mother. | Mischa Auer is a hit as an impoverished nobleman whom the three youngsters hire to lure the adventuress away from their goddy parent Ray Milland and John King provide handsome romantic interest as sweethearts of the two elder of the three girl.s. I “Outlaws of the Orient” and “Behind the Mike.” ! Columbia's “Outlaws ol the Orient,” I which stars Jack Holt and features | Mae Clarke and Harold Hubei, com--1 mence.s on Wednesday. The film is a colourful adventure story of the Gobi Desert. Holt is seen as foreman of an oil field. Ernest Schoedsack directed “Outlaws of the Orient” from an original story by Ralph Graves, Holt's former screen buddy. “Behind the Mike,” with William Gargan and Judith Barrett, is a radio station comedy with music and a great deal more radio-political farce, and. of course, there is a love story.