REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 178, 31 July 1940, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE

“CRIME TAKEST A HOLIDAY" AND , “EVERYBODY’S HOBBY.” Desperately fighting against time, a two-fisted district attorney tricks an underworld king into confessing his i crimes before a million radio-wit- ; nesses, to make Columbia’s "Crime ; i akes a Holiday ’ an unusual and dis--1 tinctive murder-mystery tale, ’the ulm, with Jack Hoit starred as tne district attorney, comes to the Regent theatre to-day. m addition to uon, j "Crime Takes a Holiday" has Mare.a Ralston in the leading leminme role; [ Russell Hoptoll, as tne assistant uisI trici attorney and romantic lean; j Douglass Dumbnlle, Joseph Crehan, John Wray, Arthur Hohl, and others. I Holt is cast as a district attorney who, i grossed by a "Citizens’ Committee" to I stamp out gangland's racketeering, ati tempts to contact the gang chieltain by pretending he can be bribed. When his emissary is murdered, he prosecutes an ex-convict for the crime, knowing that the man is innocent, confident that thus the racketeers will be tricked into revealing their hands, i The gang lers warily avoid the trap I and the district attorney finds himselt, i in the exciting climax, faced with the ; prospect of seeing his ex-convict accomplice sentenced to die unless he can capture the real murderer at the I eleventh hour. Irene Rich was the I favourite film actress of the late Will i Rogers. She fills a long vacant place on her return to the screen in the I Warner Bros, picture "Everybody’s Hobby,” the Regent associate feature.