REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“HARD TO GET” AND “MYSTERY PLANE.” Co-starring a new team of romantic ■ ; funmakers—Dick Powell and Olivia de > j Havilland—Warner Bros, comedy is ■ ; the current attraction at the Re--1 , gent Theatre. It is called “Hard to - Get” and has been described by preview critics as about the tops of the current, movie-crop as a laugh-getter. It may seem odd that the producing studio hasn’t teamed up Dick and ; Olivia before. Each has had a number of successes in the lizhter vein, but now that the studio finally has teamed them, it seems to have something—to have plenty, indeed. Although Dick is ; the leading man, “Hard To Get” isn't , a musical picture. In fact, it has only 1 two songs in it: “You Must Have I Been a Beautiful Baby” and “There’s I a Sunny Side to Every Situation.” Powell sings them, of course. In the , | cast are such excellent and well-liked ‘ players as Charlie Winninger, MclI ville Cooper, Isabel Jeans and Allen j Jenkins. The associate feature, “Mystery Plane,” is a thrilling and timely I story of a spy ring, which attempts to I obtain an electrically-controlled I bombing device designed by Tailspin ! Tommy and his two pals, Skeeter and I Mary Lou. “Tarzan I’inds a Son” “Tarzan Finds a Son,” commencing on Saturday at the Regent Theatre, lis the latest and most thrilling of those films in which the written works | of Edgar Rico Burroughs are brought Ito visual and audible life. Johnny Weissmuller, world champion swimmer and holder of the record for the fastest hundred yards sprint swim, is back again as Tarzan, the character who brought him fame in the film as well as the aquatic world. With him is Maureen O’Sullivan. The role of the “son,” who is actually the heir to I a considerable fortune and who is I found as a baby in the wreck of an ' aeroplane in the jungle, is taken by i the child athlete John Sheffield, who ! acts very well indeed as a fearless «nd .jungle-wise youngster. Trouble, apart i from lhe usual battles with lions, I tigers and such, moves into that corner of the jungle when a largo search party arrives in search of the boy.