REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 98, 28 April 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“LITTLE MISS THOROUGHBRED.” “Little Miss Thoroughbred,” a Warner Bros, comedy drama that tells how big race track betting coups are sometimes engineered, concludes tonight at the Regent Theatre. The public are introduced to a six-year-old miss who is confidently expected to become the next great child film star. The little girl, Janet Chapman, plays the title role in the picture. In support of “Little Miss Thoroughbred” is “Exposed,” starring Glenda Farrell, Otto Kruger and Herbert Mundin. ‘Tn Old Mexico” and "Illegal Traffic.” The first “Hopalong Cassidy” story to continue the action of a former "Cassidy” pictue is “In Old Mexico,” which is the attraction to be screened to-morrow at the Regent Theatre. Taking up the thread of the tale where the popular “Borderland” of a season ago left off, the picture tells what happens in the romantic Mexican ranch when “the Fox” breaks out of prison and swears revenge on “Hopalong Cassidy” and his friends, who put him there. Cast in the title role, of course, is filmdom’s most popular outdoor hero, William Boyd, who rides again with his two traditional companions, George Hayes and Russell Hayden. Western Mexico, land of vast ranches, beautiful senoritas and fearless bandits, forms the romantic setting for this “Hopalong Cassidy” range drama. When "the Fox,” escapes from prison swearing revenge on a prominent ranching family and their friend from across the Rio Grande, “Hopalong Cassidy,” he starts a feud which provides thrills. A thrill-packed story written around an amazing shakedown racket —the transportation of fugitives-

from-justice across State and national borders for exorbitant sums—is told in Paramount’s "Illegal Traffic,” the second attraction, with a fine cast of character players. J. Carrol Naish, playing the leader of a gangdom making its last stand, will be seen as the chief of a racket going on all over the nation to-day in spite of all the efforts of the Government to rout it. Naish meets his match in the person ot Robert Preston, a slick G-man, who joins the gangsters as an aeroplane pilot and turns the tables on them in a smashing climax. As the title suggests, this picture is a fearless attack on the "getaway and shakedown racket.”