RECENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 88, 14 April 1938, Page 9

RECENT THEATRE

“THREE CHEERS FOR LOVE" AND “GIRL OF THE OZARKS”

A gay, romantic musical, as faststepping as the ‘“swing tunes" it features, is presented in “Three Cheers for Love," Paramount show with Eleanor Whitney and Robert Cummings in leading roles screening today at the Regent Theatre. Miss Whitney and Cummings are aided by a cast of talented performers including Louis DaPron and Olympe Bradna, ace dancers; William Frawley and Roscoe Karns, in comedy roles; Veda Ann Borg, John Halliday, Elizabeth Patterson, Grace Bradley and Billy Lee. Eleanore is the pep-filled, tapdancing daughter of Halliday, a Hollywood movie producer. The life and problems of a small girl in a tiny Ozark mountain village, where the weekly clarion comes out ‘‘Thursday, or thereabouts,” and where a school board purchase of new books is exciting news, are dramatised in Paramount's "Girl of the Ozarks," on the same programme. The picture brings to stardom for the first time Virginia Weidler, pig-tailed child actress who climbed to national favour in “Peter Ibbetson," “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," “Laddie,” and other films. A romance with Leif Erikson and Eliza-

beth as principals is closely bound up with the fortunes of the mountain life in one of America’s few remaining real “backwoods” countries. “Educating Father” and “Roaring Timber” Jed Prouty, father of The Jones girl. Janet Young appears as the child’s mother, broken and ill through the rigours of the mountain life. The movie gives a sincere picture of the Family in the new Fox picture, “Educating Father,” coming on Saturday to the Regent Theatre, is a veteran of 50 years’ theatrical experience. The cast of “Educating Father” also features Shirley Deane, Dixie Dunbar, Spring Byington, Kenneta Howell, June Carlson, George Ernest. Florence Roberts and William Mahan. A superbly written drama, brilliantly enacted by an imposing cast and set in the scenic grandeur of the very summit of America’s timber belt, Columbia’s “Roaring Timber,” starring Jack Holt, should prove a most satisfying entertainment. Grace Bradley is Holt’s leading lady and a strong supporting cast is highlighted by the names and talents of Raymond Matton, Ruth Donnelly, Charles Wilson and J. Farrell MacDonald.