REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 291, 9 December 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“MYSTERY Ol THE WHITE ROOM’* Pat O'Brien and Kay Francis are co-starred in “Women Are Like Tint,” and Bruce Cabot and Helen Mauk appear in “The Mystery of the White Room,” the two features which commence to-day 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 th§ 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 'vas performing an intricate surgical operation. “Women Are Like That” | will not be screened at the matinee, : but there will be a special selection of ! cartoons, comprising “Forget Me i Knots,” “Yes We Can,” “Porky at. the I Crocadero,” “Stranger Than Fiction,” I “I'm Just a Jitterbug,” “Swing Cat i Jamboree,” “Little Red Walking . Hood.” In addition there will be episode No. 3 of “Scouts to the Rescue.’ 1 I L =