REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 303, 24 December 1942, Page 3

REGENT THEATRE

Screening to-day at the Regent Theatre Republic Pictures present, ' The Girl From Alaska." star- < 'ing Hay Middleton, Jean Parker an i Jerome Cowan. 'The story is woven iround a man's efforts to make good n the Alaskan gold country but afte; .our unsuccessful years prepare to eave empty-handed when ho hears /bout a 100,000 dollar cache. From hen on the story works up to an exiting climax. The associate feature, Thundering Frontier." stars Charles Siarratt. “The Vanishing Virginian.” There will be excellent, entertainment at the midnight matinee al the fegent on Chrismas Eve when “The /anishing Virginian," is scheduled Io; icreening. "The Vanishing Virg'nan," from the Metro-Goidwyn studios, s one of those very clever small-town )ut big-hearted family stories which he Americans do so extraordinarily veil. 'The scenes are in a quiet Vir;inian town, where life tuns alon” hrough the years from 1913 to I'J.jij’ '/bile the Yancey family grows up, .ith both town life and family life the I letter for the leadership of Captain (ancey (Frank Morgan), a district atorney who believes in laws that can >e enforced, but in no others, and a msband and lather whose blustering eceives neither himself nor his famly, and which breaks down altogether a all his relations with his darkie reainers, his good friends througn life, lut if the story is of small-town hapenings it has also dramatic moments, fathryn Grayson sings for the joy ol inging.