REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 243, 14 October 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

| “COM BOY FROM BROOKLYN’’ AND "TORCHY IN PANAMA.’’ i Although it .starts in a western locale, "Cowboy from Brooklyn,” the (Warner Bros, musical farce, which 'opens to-day at the Regent Theatre with Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell and I Priscilla Lane in the featured roles, 'is definitely not a western picture, for it takes nothing in the western scene seriously. It is a hilarious talc of tat 1 complications which ensure when a I New York theatrical producer, played by O’Brien, comes to a Wyoming di|le [ranch ana assumes that a trio of stranded eastern musicians who dress up in cowboy duds while they entertain the guests are authentic cowboys. Taking the leader of the trio, played by Dick Powell, back to New York and launching him on a highly successful radio career as a cowboy crooner, he discovers his cowboy is really a Brooklyn youth who has never ridden a horse.. When an enemy [of Dick’s tries to expose him as a I fake, Pat arranges to have the timid 'youth ride a bronco at a rodeo in | Madison Square Gardens, and, in a | fantastic and del; .ous sequence of I events, Pat manages to get his big Icily cowboy to perform precisely as advertised. Music is plentifully interspersed with the action. The associate feature, “Torchy in Panama/' is the fifth in the series of the | Torchy adventures. Lola Lane and Paul Kelly have replaced Glenda Farrell and Barton Mac Lane in the leadling roles. Also in the cast are Tom | Kennedy, Larry Williams, Betty ■Compson, Hugh O’Connell and others. | William Clemens directed.