REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 258, 1 November 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

"FLIRTING WITH FATE" AND "BIG CITY” "Flirting With Fate," new Joe E. Brown starring picture, opens today at the Regent Theatre. Joe E. Brown, veteran stage and screen comedian, plays the role of manager and star attraction of a valudeville troupe touring South America. With him in the big cast is Leo Carrillo, the best-loved bad man of the screen, in a characterisation which offers him every opportunity for a display of the talents which have made him one of the top-ranking character players .n Hollywood. Beverly Roberts has the feminine lead opposite Brown, while Wynne Gibson is given another important featured role. Stettii Duna, who won fame through the short subject, "La Cucaracha,” dances in the picture. Others in the cast include Charles Judels. tSanlcy Fields, Leonid Kinsky and Irene Franklin. "Flirting With Fate” is a story of the hilanus adventures which befall Brown and his troupe when they find themselves stranded in the capital of a South American country. Brown, believing his insurance will save the troupe, attempts to end it all. Unsuccessful, he learns, just as he is about to be I executed, that his troupe can have a year's tour of the biggest Sout.i American circuit. His efforts to escape death are both more lively and dive.fing than his attempts to bid the world good-bye. The stars of "The Good Earth" and "Captains Courageous," respectively, are united in tile new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, "B g City,” the associate feature, with Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy c.istarred for the first time. The new picture, presenting a cross-s—t'O i < f American metropolitan life, with Tracy as a New York taxi-eib driver who becomes involved in a war between rival taxi-cab companies, and Miss Rainer as his immigrant wile whom he barely saves from deportation. is from the pen of Norman Krasna, the brilliant young playwright whose "Fury” was considered on..' of the outstanding photopia.s of I last year.