REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 143, 20 June 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

1 “THE FRONTIERSMEN ” AND “HOLD ’EM NAVY" Romance and war hit the range country at the same time in Hara-; mount's now “Hopalong Cassidy” out - , door action thriller, “The Frontiers-i men,” which concludes to-night at ) the Regent Theatre, with William: Boyd, George Hayes and Russel 1 Hayden cast in familiar roles. The story concerns the “cyclone'' that hits the region around “Bar 21),” when a beautiful young teacher ar-! rives to put the local school on its feet and is immediately torn between the attentions of ranchers on one side and rustlers (posing as law-abiding citizens) on the other. When the situation linally gets out of control. “Hoppy” settles old scores with the rustlers by winning both the teacher and the school kids over to his side in a fight-to-the-finish with the lawbreakers. Evelyn Venable and Clara Kimball Young head the feminine wing of the cast and, as an added attraction, the picture presents the famous St. Brendan Boys’ Choir, the members of which are cast as the schoolboys. Five film favourites will be seen in their most outstanding roles to date in Paramount’s comedy romance, “Hold ’Em Navy.” which forms the associate attraction. There are Lew Ayres, John Howard, Mary Carlisle, Kenny Baker and Elizabeth Patterson, who worked under the direction of Kuri Neumann, ace director who | megaphoned “Wake Up and Dream” | and “Espionage.” I “Danger on the Air” and “Girls’ School.” : Eerie thrills, deep mystery, two (seemingly unsolvable slayings, Allied with unexpected moments of riot- ' ous comedy and “wise-cracking" roimance, make Universal’s new Crime Club picture, “Danger On The Air,” a (standout of the season for Alms of this (type. Commencing to-morrow at th" (Regent Theatre, this Alm fully jusli- ‘ ifies the claim that it is even more absorbing than “The Westland Case."

"The Black Doll," and "The Lady In The Morgue," previous Crime Club I productions. "Danger On The Air" is built around the mvsterious death or Mr. Kiuck (Eerton Churchill>, soft | drink magnate whose body is found in ; an oHice of a big broadcasting company. Harry Jones (Jed Prouty), I head of the company, tries to make 1 it, appear that Kiuck died a natural (loath. But Benjamin Butts (Donald (Woods), a clever radio sound engineer, proves that Kiuck was poisoned with j cyanogen gas . Hailed as one of the (most charming and romantic pictures of the year, Columbia’s "Girls' School” 'with an all-star-cast supported by a ■bevy of talented young girls of high I school age, will appear on the same programme. Anne Shirley, Ralph Bcljiainy, Nan Grey, Doris Kenyon, Gloria Hoictcn, Margaret Tallichet and Heather Thatcher arc among the piinIcipals. “Girls’ School" tells what transpire.-; at an exclusive finishing (school on the day and night of the annual r.Tiior prom. The picture was directed by John Brahm, from a screenplay written by Tess Slesinger 'and Richard Sherman.