REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 27, 3 February 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

"THE SHEIK STEPS OUT” AND “MISSING WITNESSES. Concluding to-day at the Regent Theatre, “The Sheik Steps Out” is a fitting vehicle for the welcome return of Ramon Novarro, and will delight his legion of admirers. How a big city was cleared of its racketeers by honest investigators and honest prosecutors is the theme'of “Missing Witnesses,” a Warner Bros, melodrama featuring John Lite!, Dick Purcell and Jean Dale, which is the second attraction. The second chapter of “Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars” screens tonight and to-morrow afternoon. “The Mysterious Rider” and “Give Me a Sailor.” A masked horseman who commits bold robberies and donates the proceeds to the poor, who becomes the most feared figure in the West without ever hurting an honest man, and who saves the ranch of a beautiful young girl from rustlers without revealing his identity, forms the romantic central character in Paramount’s ‘The Mysterious Rider,” Zane Grey's thrilling story of the untamed cattle country, which is showing to-morrow at the Regent Theatre. Douglass Dumbrille plays the strange rider who stops his wanderings long enough to secure the happiness of a daughter who does not know him, and to avenge the 20-year-old murder of his closest friend. The life of seamen when they’re away from the sea forms the comic background for “Give Me a Sailor,” which Paramount will be the associate feature. The efforts of two brothers to win the same girl, the transformation of an ugly duckling into a scintillating beauty, and a nation-wide milliondollar legs contest make the action of the plot. Heading the cast is the

screen's newest comedy-romance team, Martha Rayo and Bob Hope, the cut-ups of “College Swing,” who will now be seen as a Cinderella-girl and a love-sick sailor, respectively, while Betty Grable has the role of the sweetheart of the American Fleet.