REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 179, 1 August 1940, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE

- “CRLME TAKES A HOLIDAY” AN I “EVERYBODY’S HOBBY.” Desperately fighting against time, i two-fisted district attorney tricks ar , underworld king into confessing hi: , crimes before a million radio-wit nesses, to- make Columbia’s ‘‘Crimt ; Takes a Holiday” an unusual and dis- | tinctive murder mystery tale. The film j with Jack Holt starred as the distric j attorney, is screening at the Regen I Theatre to-day. In addition to Holt I “Crime Takes a Holiday” has Marek I Ralston in the leading feminine role Russell Hopton, as the assistant dis’ , trier attorney and romantic lead I Douglass Dumbrille, Joseph Crehan i John Wray, Arthur Hohl, and others Holt is cast as a district attorney who pressed by a “Citizens’ Committee” t( stamp out gangland’s racketeering, at’ tempts to contact the gang chieftair by pretending he can be bribed. Ireni Rich, favourite film actress of the late Will Rogers, fills a long vacant plac< on her return to the screen in t»h< Warner Bros, picture “Everybody \ , Hobby,” the Regent associate feature. “Charlie McCarthy, Detective.” Charlie McCarthy attains the statu: of a star in his new Universal offer in*, “Charlie McCarthy, Detective,’ commencing on Saturday at th« Regent Theatre. Of course, Edga; Bergen shares the starring positioi with Charlie. Mortimer Snerd, an other of Bergen’s family, is als< starred. “Charlie McCarthy, Detec Live,” is a murder mystery story, witi Charlie (with Bergen’s aid) ultimately unravelling the maze of twisted clue; and pinning the crime on the guilty party. North-West Canada is th< romantic setting for the enthralling melodrama “Man From Montreal,’ which is the associate feature. Rich ard Arlen is cast as a young trappci unjustly accused of the thefts and mur der, while And.? Devine gives a fine comedy portrayal as a good-naturec mounted policeman who comes to hii 1 aid.