REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 180, 2 August 1940, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE

•CRIME TAKES A HOLIDAY” AND “EVERYBODY’S HOBBY.”

Desperately fighting against time, a two-fisted district attorney tricks an underworld king into confessing his crimes before a million radio-wit-nesses, to make Columbia's "Crime Takes a Holiday” an unusual and distinctive murder mystery tale. The film, with Jack Holt starred as the district attorney, concludes at the Regent Theatre to-day. Irene Rich is starred in the Warner Bros, picture "Everybody's Hobby,” the associate feature. "Ctharlie McCarthy, Detective.” Charlie McCarthy, ace of puppets, and his voice and partner, Edgar Bergen, make a welcome return to the screen in "Charlie McCarthy, Detective,” which is to commence tomorrow at the Regent Theatre. Charlie and Bergen, plus country-cousin Mortimer Snerd, become involved in the murder of a newspaper magnate. Quite apart from the antics of the trio, the story has a most interesting plot. McCarthy and Bergen discover the murderer while the law is baffled by a multiplicity of clues, but McCarthy's detection is hindered by a number of things. His susceptibility to pretty girls and shapely legs is the main hindrance. He is likely to be expounding knowingly on certain subjects associated with crime, when ho spots something tall and slender on the horizon. His playboy instincts immediately get the better of him. This is perhaps the best Bergen-McCarthy picture yet filmed. Richard Arlen and Andy Devine are the popular actors who head the cast of the rousing melodrama “Man From Montreal,” the associate feature. Ice-bound wastes of North-west Canada provide the setting for the film, the famous mounted police who patrol those areas playing a prominent part in the enthralling story.