AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 January 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

THE REGENT,

“THE DEVIL TO PAY.”

As the star in Frederick Lonsdale’s sophisticated smart comedy-drama, '‘The Devil To Pay, which is at the Regent Theatre to-night, Ronald Colman appears in a role that will delight millions of admirers, and amaze them with the versatility of his genius. To his repressed characterisation of the sightless hero in “The Dark Angel,!’ the grim courage of his “Bulldog Drummond,’’ the artful resourcefulness of his “Raffles,’’ and the many romantic parts that have made him the best loved lover on the screen, Ronald Colman adds afar different role. Here he plays a j’rodigal son who, after a year or two in Africa, where his father has sent him to “make something of himself,” he hungers for the lights and delights of London, and returns—broke, but undaunted. The disgusted parent threatens him with disinheritance. Never having been in love, the audacious hero decides to marry for mnoey. His recklessness; his headlong love-making (when he meets The Girl); an already accepted rival, and the ambitions of two purseproud fathers, are spicy ingredients in a swiftly moving' plot, told in witty dialogue. Brisk, smart and sophisticated, in settings that are as rich as the high society locale, “The Devil To Pay” presents a new Ronald Colman in entrancing entertainment. Seats may bo reserved at Vare’s, or ring Theatre, ’phone 21)03.

COSY THEATRE. “EX BAD BOY.” “Ex Bad Boy” is the title of an amusing broad comedy of American rustic life which will be shown at the Cosy Theatre to-night. It is the comic effort of a gay old man to prevent his beautiful daughter from marrying a gigolo, or dancing partner. The girl is attracted to this “lounge lizard,” on account of his many affairs in the past, the old man invents a past for the son-in-law of his choice, by the use of a photograph of a movie star on which he writes a lurid description, and makes the timid young man live up to it. going well until the movie star makes The trick works wonders, and all is a personal appearance in support of one of her own pictures. Then things become mixed and muddled, and the fun fast and furious, but it all workf out to the happy ending. Seats may bo reserved at Vare’s, ’phone 1333.