REGENT THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20100, 2 December 1930, Page 8

REGENT THEATRE.

" THE STORM." The pubh'9 taste in screen entertainment ha a progressed far past the day of the gentle lovo story, a.nd nowadays, to provide something that contains a real thrill movie actors and actresses have to risk their lives aa well as their reputations m order to gain public favour. Producers ar« fit c ccj with a continual battle against the commonplace: pictures must have new plots and plots new "stunts." The peak in thrills so far has been reached by "The Storm " which opened a season last night at the Regent Theatre. ' 'The Storm'' is a tale of two men cooped up in i» mountain hut in Canada, snow-bound and waiting for the spring. One David Stewart, is the guest of Burr Winton, who has saved hiß lite in by-gouc battle. The men's nerves are fraying with c)ob3 confinement and Stewart a city man, feels it the worse. Matters po fairly easily, nevertheless, until a French Canadian smuggler, who, with his very pretty daughter, are fleeing from the Mounted Police, arrive on tho sceno. The father dies. Tho city man makes rapid advances for the lady's favours, the other an anti-feminist, attending to food-->ettinr' Aa time goes on both find themselves m love and they agree, more or less to a tiuce. Stewart breaks it and then 'follows one of the most strenuous fights y»t seen on tho screen. In the main roles are Lupe \ele/., William Boyd, and Paul Cavanagh. lhe shorts are decidedly interesting and in addition, Mr Oacar Garden told of a few of his experiences on his flight from England to Australia.