REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 68, 22 March 1938, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL HUMOUR Two species of humour—one honest English comedy and the other refined Continental clowning—are presented currently at the Regent Theatre. The lirst item was the 111 m "Windbag the Sailor," with Will Hay, of schoomaster fame, in the titular role, and the Weintraubs. Will Hay, as the captain of a “coflln” ship, in which he sets sail contrary to his own intentions, has to deal with mutiny and shipwreck, savages and the salvaging of a luxury schooner. Trusting to his luck and with so little knowledge of matters nautical he identities neither compass nor sextant when he sees them, he manages a round-the-world tour, the only mishap being ths destruction of the wharves when departing and again when returning.

The Weintraubs are a group of musicians with a new programme. Not only are these performers masters of many instruments, but they are able to change places with precision and to carry on the performance with in ci' dental funmaking as a continuous ingredient. Not only is humour extracted from instruments that are usually played prosaically, but they at times denoted tragedy, pathos and bathos, to the tears and tricks of the various performers. The members of the troupe were quite prepared to enlist the audience in jokes at the expense of their fellows. The Weintraubs are an interesting company because they present humour in a new way. Refined clowning is only an approximation of the programme which they provide, and although they may be called Continenal their comedy is as universal in its appeal as their past successes indicate. The company has appeared with success in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London and New York, so it is not surprising that they succeeded so well in Wanganui. The Weintraubs will provide another programme this atiernoon and night. ,

“Sunset Pass” and “People Will Talk.” Zane Grey has had more of his stories of the West put on the screen than any other living author. Harry Carey has appeared in more films dealing with the West than any other living actor. Yet Paramount's “Sunset Pass,” which comes to the Regent Theatre to-morrow, is the first Zane Grey film in which Carey has appeared. Carey is a member of a cast which also includes Randolph Scott, Tom Keene, Kathleen Burke, Noah Beery and Kent Taylor. Charlie Ruggles and Mary Bo'.and are teamed as the grand old married couple of the screen for the ninth time in

“People Will Talk." the new Paramount comedy which will be on the same programme. The pair who have impersonated the meek husband and domineering wife in such films as “Ruggles of Red Gap," "The Pursuit of Happiness," “S:x of a Kind,” and half a dozen other comedy succseses, are reunited in a picture that gives them a greater opportunity than ever before to display their particular talent for squeezing the last possible drop of laughter out of every situation. Leila Hyams and Dean Jagger head the supporting cast of the picture.