REGENT THEATRE
“THE LADY IN THE MORGUE” For positively eerie suspense that keeps you on tender hooks till the law gets its prey in the last scene, Universal's thriller, “The Lady in the Morgue,” which screens at the Regent Theatre to-day, can’t be beaten. This screen version of Jonathan Latimer’s celebrated Crime Club novel is a Grade A baffler, with more twisted clues, zestful roughouse and picturesque characters than have been seen on the screen in a month of Sundays. Chief among these characters is Detective Bill Crane, the hard-boiled, pleasantly alcoholic sleuth. He is played by Preston Foster, who created this character on the screen in “The Westland Case." Foster is simply grand in the part, as is Frank Jenks in the role of Crane’s clownish assistant. Doc Williams. Patricia Ellis does a swell job as the girl in the case and Tom Jackson is very amusing as a numskull oflicer of the law. The second feature is the funniest, fastest, tuniest hit of the year with the dizziest, dafliest comedians ever starred in one grand jamboree of mirth and merriment! That's “Life Begins in College," Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox musical smash starring the comedy-mad Ritz Brothers and featuring Joan Davis, Tony Martin and Gloria Stuart and a tremendous cast.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 53, 4 March 1939, Page 11
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209REGENT THEATRE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 53, 4 March 1939, Page 11
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