“WOMEN ARE LIKE THAT”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 289, 7 December 1939, Page 11

“WOMEN ARE LIKE THAT”

ATTRACTIONS AT REGENT. “MYSTERY OF WHITE ROOM.” Pat O’Brien and Kay Francis are co-starred in “Women Are Like That,” and Bruce Cabot and Helen Mack appear in “The Mystery of the White Room,*’ the two features commencing on Saturday at the Regent Theatre. Proving herself to be one of the screen's most delightful comediennes, in addition to her other talents, Kay Francis gives one of her best performances in “Women Are Like That.” It is delightful comedy, not so frothy that it isn’t warmly, touchingly human at times, and yet so gay that the spectator has never a let-down of spirits. This time, Pat O’Brien co-stars with the lovely dark Miss Francis. He gives a grand performance, as do such other top troupers of ths supporting cast as Ralph Forbes, Hall, Melville Cooper, Gordon Oliver, John Eldredge, Herbert Rawlinson and Grant Mitchell. The murder of a surgeon in the operating theatre, the death of another in suspicious circumstances, and a vicious assault thrown in for good measure, provide plenty of thrills in “The Mystery of the VVTiite Room,” a Crime Club mystery film. Bruce Cabot and Helen Mack appear as a doctor and a nurse respectively in this exciting story of crime in a big city hospital, and although there is a hard-boiled sergeant from the Homicide Squad in the picture, it is the handsome doctor who really solves the riddle of how another surgeon was done to death with a scalpel as he was performing an intricate surgical operation.