REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 290, 8 December 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“GARDEN OF THE MOON.” “Garden of the Moon,’’ the Warner Bros.’ newest musical, with Pat O’Brien, Margaret Lindsay and John Payne in the top roles, concludes screening to-day at the Regent Theatre. Five new tunes by Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren and Al Dubin are introduced. Joe Venuti’s swing band furnishes the captivating melody. An unusual murder mystery is offered in “The Patient in Room 18,” which is the associate feature. Patrie Knowles is the star and among the supporting players in the film are Ann Sheridan, Eric Stanley and John Ridgeley. “Women Are Like That” and “Mystery of White Room” Pat O’Brien and Kay Francis are co-starred in “Women Are Like TirP,” and Bruce Cabot and Helen Mack appear in “The Mystery of the White Room,” the two features commencing to-morrow 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 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 thq supporting cast as Ralph Forbes, ThursAn 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 White 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.