REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 30, 6 February 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

"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 girt 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 the current attraction 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. Martha Raye, of the famous mouth, turns into a glamour girl in her latest screen role. In Paramount's “Give Me a Sailor,” which is the associate attraction, Martha is seen as a completely new person—a household drudge who comes out of the kitchen, to win a national beautiful legs contest and proceeds to set all San Francisco on fire. Opposite her she has wisecracking Bob Hope, the comedian of the "Big Broadcast of 1938” and “College Swing,” now playing a gay sailor who finds it hard to make up his mind between two beautiful sisters and lets the girls decide for him. Four striking new songs were written for the picture by Hollywood’s ace composing team, Robin and Rainger. The numbers are “It Don’t Make Sense.” “What Goes on Here?" “A Little Kiss at Twilight,” and the theme song of the production, “The U.S.A, and You.”